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An Australian court has ordered Apple to allow alternative app stores, sideloading, and third-party payment systems in a ruling favorable to Epic Games. The decision adds to global legal pressure on Apple's App Store policies.
The article explains how Amazon's high seller fees, fulfillment requirements, and Fair Pricing Policy force sellers to raise prices not just on Amazon but across the internet, a practice at the core of the FTC's upcoming antitrust case against the company.
Google effectively acquihired Character AI's founding team, leaving the startup a zombie company that has now filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy — a pattern Gergely Orosz notes mirrors Microsoft with Inflection AI and Amazon with Adept AI and Covariant, all structured to avoid triggering antitrust scrutiny.
Paramount has completed its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, forming a combined company called Skydance led by David Ellison and Ynon Kreiz, putting major studios, networks, and streaming brands like HBO, CBS News, and CNN under one roof after settling antitrust suits from 12 states.
A federal judge blocked New York state's ban on algorithmic rent-pricing software, striking down a law aimed at curbing the use of AI-driven tools that coordinate rental prices among landlords.
美国联邦法官 Amit Mehta 驳回了 Chegg 和 Penske Media 对 Google 的反垄断诉讼，裁定 Google 在 AI Overviews 等产品中的行为不构成违法，这对担心 AI 搜索影响流量的出版商而言是一次挫败。
A federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media that accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by using publisher content for AI Overviews while diverting search traffic away from their sites. The ruling notes publishers' claims don't meet antitrust standards, even as Google faces ongoing scrutiny over AI search's impact on web traffic.
Reflecting on the Disney protests over Jimmy Kimmel's removal from ABC, the article argues that media mergers have made it nearly impossible to boycott a single network without avoiding a vast ecosystem of streaming services, sports, and entertainment owned by one conglomerate.
An antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of anti-competitive practices with Apple Pay fees is advancing in court, allowing banks and credit unions to collectively sue over blocked competition in tap-to-pay.
The article discusses how the settlement conditions for the Paramount and Warner Bros. merger are criticized for offering the public little benefit, with concerns that they won't prevent higher cable prices or reduce investment in content, while settlements with state attorneys general and the Writers Guild are highlighted.
The Trump administration criticizes EU tech regulations and supports Elon Musk in disputes over fines imposed on X under the Digital Services Act. The EU is also investigating X's integration of its AI chatbot Grok for potential breaches.
A lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google made an illegal agreement to slow down AI development, violating antitrust laws and potentially reducing consumer value from paid AI subscriptions.
This article covers a podcast discussion with former antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter on whether AI companies should receive antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety measures, amidst ongoing debates about AI regulation and competition.
A lawsuit has been filed against Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google, alleging illegal coordination between competitors to pace AI development.
The tweet predicts that frontier AI companies will make limited safety commitments by year-end, which may be violated, and antitrust issues will delay collaborative agreements, affecting public interest and leading to future legislation.
The paper proposes a causal graph divergence framework to assess the faithfulness of LLM pricing agents in oligopolistic markets, revealing that chain-of-thought monitoring fails to detect collusion due to dissociation between collusive behavior and reasoning traces.
The article argues that major AI companies are pushing for regulations to create unfair competitive advantages, pricing out startups, marginalizing open-source models, and potentially colluding under safety pretexts.
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been in talks for weeks on AI safety, following Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's essay calling for industry coordination to avoid catastrophic risks, with discussions touching on antitrust laws and potential standards bodies.
Elon Musk has withdrawn antitrust claims against Apple but continues to pursue similar lawsuits against OpenAI over their partnership and alleged monopolization of the chatbot market.
Aidan Gomez argues against allowing a few dominant AI companies to define global AI rules, citing historical regulatory failures and emphasizing the need for inclusive, evidence-based guardrails.