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Welcomed explainer from @signal.org's president about last week's serious AWS-related incident. The concentration of infrastructure / resources among "hyperscalers" she points to is reminiscent to what exists with web search infrastructure.

...curbing exclusivity, GenAI alone as market force is unlikely to break Google’s search dominance.

More by Mihir Kshirsagar ⬆️

Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Ks...

When it comes to web search, #GenAI looks more like a format shift within search than an external disruptive entrant; incumbents, especially Google, are positioned to absorb and dominate it.

Without stronger interventions beyond...

www.promarket.org/2025/10/20/w...

Just like Google managed to cement dominance on browser and then mobile, its control over distribution points & data advantage is set to reproduce the same w/ AI.

It's a call for meaningful policy interventions, but also a call for the plurality of competitors to expand & deepen their partnerships

my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the US v. Google search antitrust case and just how badly the court missed the opportunity to contend with Google’s power in the genAI market. genAI won’t magically unseat Google’s market dominance, as the court suggests, it will only deepen it

The overlooked front in the browser wars Seamless workflows bridging search, browsing, and AI

How the DuckDuckGo browser bridges search, web browsing and AI ⬇️

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...Judge Mehta’s willingness to reopen and review the default payment issues will become critical."

Recommended read by @alissacooper.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/without-a-pa...

"If concerns raised about the inadequacy of the [data sharing] remedy are demonstrated through the failure of competition to take hold, the manner and timeliness for...

Duck Tales: Why DuckDuckGo Added the ‘More’ Button for AI-Assisted Answers (Episode 1) From concise to comprehensive: DuckDuckGo’s AI Search Assist is built to give short, clear answers by default — and now, with the new “More” button, users can dive deeper when they want to.

... really tries to get the job done in a very short amount of words. But users for some queries were asking it to go deeper on topics, and that's the answer to the "More" button question."

Here's, well, more ⬇️

insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales...

I posted a couple times about how DuckDuckGo uniquely integrates AI answers to the search experience. But you better actually hear directly from Tim, one of those making the magic internally.

"Search Assist is "unique in that way across the AI answers industry, in that it...

Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater Delivers Keynote Address at the 2025 Georgetown Law Global Antitrust Enforcement Symposium Thank you for having me. It’s such a pleasure to be here at this incredibly important moment in antitrust and technology policy. We are at an inflection point in both. In antitrust enforcement, for

"National champions are too often national chokepoints" - speech by AAG Gail Slater at the Georgetown antitrust enforcement symposium www.justice.gov/opa/speech/a...

"All the privacy debates surrounding Google search results from the past two decades apply one-for-one to AI chats, but to an even greater degree. That’s why we started offering Duck.ai for protected chatbot conversations and optional, anonymous AI-assisted answers in our private search engine."

« Le sujet n’est pas tant de stabiliser la dette pour faire plaisir à nos créanciers, mais de stopper le déclin » CHRONIQUE. La hausse des dépenses publiques et des taux de prélèvement n’a fait qu’entretenir les illusions sur un système productif poussif et des services publics de moins en moins efficaces, sans n...

"la vérité est que, sans produire davantage de richesses, la dette ne permettra plus de soutenir notre niveau de vie et de maintenir à flot notre système de protection sociale." @stephanelauer.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

"Google's abusive behaviour...had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web"

The impact of those has been negligible (less than 1% change in Google’s market share) because the OEMs’ total dependence on Android to operate in the market rendered the contractual changes impotent. That dependence is as strong in the US as it is in the EU, so we can expect the same result.

At KGI we think a lot about concrete evidence. Seven years ago, the European Commission instituted contractual prohibitions in its Google Android case that were of a similar nature to those included by the court here.

After issuing a liability decision that relied extensively on claims about both the power of defaults and the size of Google’s revenue share payments, the court’s opinion does nothing to prevent Google from continuing to pay distributors for defaults.

DuckDuckGo's comments on the CMA's provisional decision is here assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68a5aa...

The recently published UK's CMA provisional decision to regulate Google search is making that point eloquently: AI *is* impacting usages, but the underlying competitive dynamics remain. Google's key platform & data assets are more critical than ever in the AI era.

J'ai signé la pétition pour appeler le gouvernement français (quand on en aura un) à mettre en œuvre l’initiative "Skyshield".

C'est ici: shorturl.at/42Rr5

Il y a bien sûr l'aspect humanitaire. Mais il en va aussi de la défense des intérêts européens. 1/

There's a cognitive dissonance between the finding of monopolization and what the same judge says should be done against it.

On the data sharing side, some remedies were approved but with lots of caveats. Hard to see how they will be of any practical use.

...hold back competitors, including in AI search. As a result, consumers will continue to suffer. We believe Congress should now step in to swiftly make Google do the thing it fears the most: compete on a level playing field."

Here's what our CEO Gabriel Weinberg had to say about yesterday's US judgment:

"We do not believe the remedies ordered by the court will force the changes necessary to adequately address Google’s illegal behavior. Google will still be allowed to continue to use its monopoly to...

The Commission is giving antitrust law / DMA offenders a license to trespass the rules, with these sort of moves. What message does it send to those many businesses - European and foreign - investing and employing in Europe and being harmed by these abuses?

Swallowing a decrease of tariffs on industrial goods while the EU's get hiked up is already tough enough (and might not even pass the EP). So the EC has little choice but to react the way Ribera does. But it might inhibit the actual investigations, and that's maybe the effect that's wanted.

Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean.

The verdict in US v Google should drop any day now. From @superwuster.bsky.social : "The bigger stakes & larger target of the case have always been the broader ecosystem of information retrieval, which is destined to be shaped by newer technologies like chatbots & AI" www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Je ne comprendrai jamais tout à fait le tropisme Kremlinophile d'une certaine gauche française.

500 ? Pourquoi pas 1000 ? Ou 2000, tant qu'on y est ?

Just watched "Burn After Reading", the movie from 2008. I thought everything looked old. At some point some idiots in the movie try and leak (actually useless) CIA intel to the Russian embassy. In the attaché's office, a portrait of Vladimir Putin hangs at the wall...💀

Exactement comme avec l'Ukraine de nos jours