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This really is the official text of the AI Act. Regulating as it does was the only possible way, what other jurisdictions are doing clearly falls short in comparison (according to EU institutions). Let's see what the CJEU has to say about it...

NEW paper by Richard Gilbert (UC Berkeley): Antitrust agencies mention “innovation” but rarely analyze it seriously. New “dynamic capabilities” framework could help, but courts won’t balance future innovation benefits against current price harms. networklawreview.org/gilbert-merger/

Interesting to see publisher signals and data innovation responding to AI innovation.

Some very interesting insights into the unwritten rules of US merger antitrust here, especially the adage that you need at least 2/3 of hot documents, econ analysis, and customer complaints, 3 if you can, and if you only have 1, it’s not enough.

This is a great piece that all of us non-experts who like to “trespass” into fields dominated by experts will enjoy.

many people are suddenly wondering about where the FCC got all this power to harass and intimidate speakers. One might even ask, "Why Regulate Broadcasting?" That's a great question. It turns out that I spent the first half of my 34-year career writing all about that issue, and

A very interesting post showing the role of advertising automation in making markets work better

hard to overstate just how much AI and data center growth is doing to fuel the economy currently, but here's another data point: AI-related products responsible for 42% of trade growth this year. 🤯 wsj.com/economy/trade/…

This is a very handy tracker

Not all AI is ready for primetime

A very interesting survey from CCIA Europe confirming that personalization is helpful to the majority of web users ccianet.org/news/2025/10/h…

Google's cert. petition agnst Epic Games (10-27, 9th Cir.) asks whether rule of reason antitrust plaintiff has a burden to prove a less restrictive alternative; and also attacks the notion that Trinko's refusal to deal doctrine does not apply to remedies. documentcloud.org/documents/2619…

This is a very interesting example of how the UK CMA =/= EU Commission when it comes to antitrust

While Tim Wu is quite wrong about the decision, that is not the important lesson in FTC v. Meta. Nor is Judge Boasberg’s politics. The right (and hard) lesson is that the Khan FTC deprioritized economics and it shows up not only in MGs and policy docs but also in the way

vikram pathania and my Wharton colleague Serguei Netessine have published (2026) an interesting paper on Amazon distribution facilities and economic growth, finding that they lead to higher local employment, reduced poverty and an increase in median income. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

impt paper by Shapiro & Yurukoglu is out in J. Pol. Econ. 3 impt takeaways: 1) the idea that competition is declining is unsupported; 2) merger outcomes are heterogenous; 3) some (hospitals) are problematic while others (air, groceries) much less so. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

The Boston Univ. Law Review will soon publish my piece on the Google remedies decision. One takeaway: if you want to use an antitrust remedy to make a market more competitive a breakup is not the best way to do it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

A friendly reference Jon Stewart wsj.com/opinion/you-ca…