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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺

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Policy @ DuckDuckGo. Follow for Tintin memes and tech/competition policy (or both). Brussels | Berlin

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Wikipédia en français @wikipediafr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Le 23 août correspond à la Journée européenne du souvenir. Proclamée par le Parlement européen en 2009, elle vise à préserver le souvenir des victimes des régimes totalitaires & autoritaires. La date du 23 août a été choisie pour coïncider avec le pacte germano-soviétique du 23 août 1939. #CeJourLà
Drapeau rouge avec l'inscription « NON » en noir, un marteau et une faucille, une étoile jaune et une croix gammée. Le coin inférieur droit est déchiqueté et dégouline de blanc. Le drapeau symbolise l'opposition aux dictatures et aux idéologies totalitaires. Image en noir et blanc de Joseph Staline et Joachim von Ribbentrop réunis au Kremlin et se serrant la main pour la signature du Pacte germano-soviétique en août 1939.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
How do you hold a search monopoly for years? Pay browsers and device makers billions, then make switching a maze. Earlier this month @duckduckgo.com (@joejerome.com) filed an amicus brief in the U.S. v. Google appeal in support of the ruling. spreadprivacy.com/google-appea...
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Google Built a Monopoly on Search Defaults and Will Do It Again in AI
In August, DuckDuckGo filed an amicus brief agreeing that Google unlawfully maintained a monopoly in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Vibes in Western Europe this summer
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026
Digital Markets Act: from Solo Act to Orchestra www.article19.org/digital-mark...
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Digital Markets Act: from Solo Act to Orchestra - ARTICLE 19
Call for papers: European Commission under the Digital Markets Act (DMA)
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Most Tech CEOs aren't economists, and that's many get the "AI will destroy 90% of jobs" thing wrong. AI boosts productivity, which is the foundation of long-term growth. Jobs certainly undergo deep transformation, but...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Google in the DMA early days be all like "constructive compliance", "leveraging DMA compliance as competitive advantage". Fast forward to 2026: "The changes we’ve already made to Search under the DMA represent the biggest downgrade... www.ft.com/content/c5a8...
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Brussels prepares fresh Google fines as Big Tech enforcement increases
Decisions will test whether the EU can police digital markets without reigniting tensions with Washington
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nice and important campaign from a group of orgs interested in the DMA prohibition on self-preferencing in web search, targeting you-know-who: "a law you don't enforce is just a suggestion". finishthejob.eu
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Finish The Job - Enforce the DMA
A growing coalition of European organisations calling on the Commission to enforce the Digital Markets Act in full and without delay.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
🦆🦊🎻 @duckduckgo.com , @mozilla.org Firefox and @vivaldi.com just published a joint letter to EU lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus: make privacy signals work for people, not against the products they already trust. 1/n
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
How many years has it been yet? Honestly sad for Australian businesses & consumers + the #ACCC itself which did great work on digital markets. www.mlex.com/mlex/antitru...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Last night in Western Europe be like
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Deeply enjoyed my conversation with Oles a few weeks back - as you can see below we got to delve into the details!
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Research into actual behaviors at the workplace hints to AI not replacing work, but rather intensifying it. Sounds familiar with what other technologies did in the past, like the ability to connect & communicate at any time. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Zuckerberg says glasses that integrate Meta's AI tech are "going to be able to see what you see, hear what you hear, talk to you, and help you as you go about your day". I don't know for you but it just sent chills through my nerves. gizmodo.com/ai-that-unde...
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'AI That Understands You': Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Deepen AI's Presence in Our Online Lives
"Glasses are the ultimate incarnation of this vision," he added.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
.@arcapde.bsky.social : "The Digital Omnibus proposal is bricolage" - disagreeing with the European Commission's rep insistence that the proposal's goal isn't to reduce privacy rights. #dataprotectionday
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Seen at EDPS Data Protection Day 🍪🔪
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Such an impressive drop in fertility in the world's most populous countries. One of the defining traits of this century.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
How could Zelensky not be bitter as he flew in from a freezing Kyiv, 4 years in the war? Sometimes it feels like Europe is accommodating itself with the dreadful "equilibrium" of this war. Sanctions are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQdm...
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum – watch live
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Not sure if Trump got confused or if the problem in fact got bigger, but he just talked about getting "Iceland" right now in Davos
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Remarkable speech by Mark Carney - worth watching youtu.be/dqtDxkuvUdM
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LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney Special Address at Davos WEF 2026
YouTube video by DRM News
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Joseph Jerome @joejerome.com · 13/01/2026
Judge Mehta was wrong wrong wrong. Wrong. WRONG. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies
They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Les entreprises françaises, trop aidées ? Si on soustrait de leurs impôts les aides publiques, la France est toujours sur ce funeste podium : "La France était à la 3e place de l’UE pour les prélèvements nets des aides en % de leur valeur ajoutée, derrière... www.lesechos.fr/economie-fra...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Pretty cool year in review by @cloudflare.social radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi... Some interesting facts: - Snapchat and LinkedIn now outperforming X - Perplexity saw more traffic than Gemini in 2025 ...
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Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review
The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2025.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
"celebrating" the 10y anniversary soon
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
La AI-assisted search de DuckDuckGo est maintenant disponible en Français (+ Espagnol, Allemand, Néerlandais) ! Et comme toutes nos fonctionalités d'IA, cela reste optionel, privé et utile.
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Rafael Mentges @mentges.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Brexit should have been a lesson. It's a misunderstanding of sovereignty. Individual countries that are not China or the US have to follow the rules set by major powers as they have no bargaining power. Only together European countries are strong.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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...
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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...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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
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kate brennan @kate-brennan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
How the DuckDuckGo browser bridges search, web browsing and AI ⬇️ gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-overlo...
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The overlooked front in the browser wars
Seamless workflows bridging search, browsing, and AI
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"National champions are too often national chokepoints" - speech by AAG Gail Slater at the Georgetown antitrust enforcement symposium www.justice.gov/opa/speech/a...
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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
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"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."
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DuckDuckGo AI Chat at DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"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...
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« 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...
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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 05/09/2025
"Google's abusive behaviour...had a negative impact on all European citizens in their day-to-day use of the web"
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Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Alissa Cooper @alissacooper.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
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.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
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.
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Sébastien Gobert @sebagobert.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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/
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
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...
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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?
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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...
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Opinion | Google Could Get Broken Up This Week. Here’s What It Would Mean.
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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...💀
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Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺 @apmaehl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Me facing the CMA reports published right before the holidays
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