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"Khan also had a study on new surveillance pricing games in the works, and it hasn’t been released yet" www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...

End-users "built their professional and creative workflows around a toolkit of different models, each with its own strengths" - hence, they value model variation.

South Korea charts one-of-a-kind course in AI race with U.S. and China South Korea is looking to create a near self-sufficient AI industry and position its technology as an alternative to China and the U.S.

KoreaStack www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/s...

"Projects being paused include a study into how AI might affect human rights and democracy"

#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting Spotify video

DHH had the same idea—take on Apple. Lawyers he asked quoted $10 million; it turned out it would have been ten times that open.spotify.com/episode/2EfP...

"Interoperability: a silver bullet for digital markets?" ACCC and other regulators ask? www.accc.gov.au/about-us/con... No, but it helps competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/06/inte...

Epic Games' CEO says fighting Apple cost his company more than $1 billion. He says it was worth it. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple and Tim Cook over its App Store rules for five years. I asked him why.

www.businessinsider.com/tim-sweeeney...

Is the game to toy with regulators—until a judge won’t play? In the US, it took $100 million in legal costs to get there.

More Countries Are Forcing Apple To Allow Third-Party Browsers in iOS WebKit doesn't have to be the only way.

"Apple might try and roll out the same blanket measure it rolled out in the EU, at least at first, but it looks like Japan is at least semi-aware of the stuff Apple has tried to pull." www.howtogeek.com/more-countri... -

Helsing, la start-up qui fait le pari de la défense européenne par l’IA L’entreprise franco-germano-britannique, valorisée 12 milliards d’euros, veut changer les règles de l’industrie de la défense en Europe, en misant sur le logiciel, et en prenant le risque de produire ...

"dit avoir « pris conscience que le modèle technologique des Gafam [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft] considère les exigences de souveraineté des pays européens comme des contraintes, et non comme un prérequis» www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...

"TechCrunch has reached out to WaveForms to find out if its third co-founder and chief technologist, Kartikay Khandelwal, will also join Meta, as well as the outcome of the deal for the roughly 14 other staffers"

Advokat i opråb: Myndighederne løfter ikke opgaven, når de ikke retsforfølger techgiganterne Danske Liza Lovdahl Gormsen, der siden 2019 har arbejdet på et gruppesøgsmål mod Facebook, savner opbakning fra de danske konkurrencemyndigheder. Hun mener ikke, at de løfter opgaven. Konkurrence- og ...

"K-NEWS has submitted the criticism to the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority, which has no comments, but states that "it does not recognize the picture that Liza Lovdahl Gormsen paints of the agency's work" www.k-news.dk/artikler/adv...

Opt-out collective actions regime review: call for evidence

"we are aware of the potential burden on business that increased exposure to litigation can present" - to be read as "UK private enforcement should be dismantled as well"? www.gov.uk/government/c...

"This is directly relevant to Apple’s current iOS behavior, even under the EU’s Digital Markets Act, where technical and procedural restrictions continue to block meaningful competition. Japan’s guidance is clearly designed to avoid similar outcomes"

South Korea capitulated, apparently [to be discussed at the next OECD Competition Committee]

Fair Trade Commission faces inactivity as chairperson vacancy drags on in Korea Fair Trade Commission faces inactivity as chairperson vacancy drags on in Korea

"...the United States has expressed strong concerns about the legislative movements regarding the On-Platform Act during the Korea-U.S. tariff negotiations....In response, the government has begun to adjust the intensity of platform regulation" biz-chosun-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/biz.chos...

AHA! Thank you! Just off to lodge a complaint with the Datenschutzbeauftragter Berlin.

Meta Sudans Redux: AGCM at the Gates Fresh off the press release: the Italian antitrust authority has knocked — quite literally — on Meta’s door. A dawn raid hit the company’s ...

Not possible, apparently competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/07/meta...

"When unnatural distribution is switched off, extreme material will again have to compete with the torrent of cat videos and other things posted by people on digital platforms at that same instant. We will still have digital platforms, but extremism will again be niche rather than the norm"

This "leak" provides the type of data that should be made available to our digital regulators, if you ask me...

"Some observers link the phenomenon in part to new features in several AI chatbots that track users’ interactions with the service to personalize their responses" #MetaAI competitionwave.blogspot.com/2025/07/meta...

"Europe’s AI Factories...likely to provide an interesting case study about which organizations [read startups and industries] should be served by these kinds of compute provision efforts" not discussed enough over here, IMO

"“The long-term objective is to build its technology stack...The longer this takes, given the dominance of U.S. or Western AI firms and models, it will mean the delay of completely owning and deploying its own stack. This could affect domestic innovation.”"

"A new approach is needed. Economists need to step up to the challenge of defining the concepts and measures that will effectively describe the transformed, digitized economy"

Re: Investigate Meta's de facto vertical acquisition of Scale AI drive.google.com/file/d/1JI8T... I remember a time when folks over here might have been interested too...

#474 – DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Ruby on Rails, Productivity & Parenting Lex Fridman Podcast · Episode

Cloud: "competitors aren't able to do the competitive thing we like about capitalism" competition authorities know it, everyone knows it and still... open.spotify.com/episode/2EfP...

"“We look forward to the U.S. implementing this commitment,” he said"

State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)

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Trump administration dials up attack on EU's digital rulebook - Euractiv US government also announces 100% tariff on chips, but EU says its earlier agreement with the US for a 15% general levy stands.

🚨 Trump administration officially calls its diplomats pursue repealling or amending the DSA.

The @ec.europa.eu repeats: "EU regulations and standards were never up for discussion, and this will not change" in the EU-US trade deal.

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“Companies now view elite #AI talent as strategic assets — on par with IP or even entire business units — and are pursuing individuals with the same intensity and valuation frameworks once reserved for acquisitions,” said Graig Paglieri, CEO at recruiting group Randstad Digital.’on.ft.com/4lih691