The European Union’s Digital Markets Act was built to move fast: designate gatekeepers, impose obligations, and reshape digital markets before the lawyers can finish sharpening their pencils. But in Meta …
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Washington keeps looking for the AI equivalent of a locked vault: control the chips, control the models, control the danger. But artificial intelligence is starting to look less like uranium …
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Antitrust law does not hand out damages just because someone got hurt in the general vicinity of an antitrust violation. A plaintiff must show more than bad conduct, more than …
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Sometimes the most important thing about a gatekeeper case is that there was no gatekeeper after all. That is the quiet lesson of the European Union General Court’s judgment in …
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Brazil’s WhatsApp case began as a fight over access to an application programming interface, or API—the technical doorway that lets outside services connect to WhatsApp. It has quickly become a …
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SpaceX may soon ask public investors to buy a piece of the future. The fine print may ask them to buy something else, too: a theory of corporate governance. The …
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The consumer welfare standard was supposed to be on the defensive. After nearly a decade of attacks from the neo-Brandeisian movement, critics had cast it as too narrow, too technocratic, …
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Some legal cases age like wine. Others age like browser tabs left open too long. Brazil’s Google News inquiry belongs firmly in the latter category. On April 3, Brazil’s Administrative …
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Good intentions make for lousy competition law when they are stapled to bad economics. That is the trouble with the new fashion in digital regulation: It treats integration as suspicion, …
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The European Commission is trying to pull off a difficult trick: force Google to share search-query data with rivals while insisting the shared data is no longer personal data at …