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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/09/2026

Calling all competition law students (and the academics who support them): the New Competition School is launching a blog post competition with Tech Policy Press (@techpolicypress.bsky.social)! 🧵 newcompetitionschool.com/ncs-award-fo...

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 27/08/2026

The US State Department has designated A/I, a small Italian provider of open source infrastructure for political activists, as a global terrorist group. They will reach into our very homes to grab us — if we let them. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist - United States Department of State

Today, the Department of State, in partnership with the Department of the Treasury, is announcing the designation of Autistici/Inventati as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Autistici/Inventati...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Luise Quaritsch @luisequaritsch.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026

Today, the Commission fined Google €890 million for two breaches of the Digital Markets Act. One decision concerns Google's self-preferencing on Search (€460 mio.) and the other Google Playstore's anti-steering policies (€430 mio.). digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-f...

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Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the DMA for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place restrictions on busine...

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Lights out and away we go! #Clacton

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 16/06/2026

Technologists interested in promoting the public good: come forward! As @todddavi.es - explains, technology is broad - @yvesalexandre.bsky.social agrees

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 30/04/2026

Alternate headline: "Tech bro discovers that non-tech people can be smart too."

Screenshot from a BBC news article with the headline "Musk accuses OpenAI lawyer of trying to 'trick' him in combative testimony".

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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What a cover ! We need a strong 🇪🇺 NOW ! #Europe

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 13/04/2026

Since Google started putting AI Overviews at the top of its search results, traffic to websites all around the world has plummeted. This is a problem. 🧵

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 20/03/2026

Yes. That’s the way forward!

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Friendly Neighborhood Transsexual @icanfly42.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Not entirely on topic but I wish people understood that a lot of what "agents" supposedly do would be almost trivially easy if these companies just had open APIs like they used to! Instead we're burning the planet so LLMs can crawl through websites and apps, its crazy!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Not really the point, but I appreciate that Frank's Zoom background makes it feel like he's appeared to you during an ayahuasca vision to deliver this message.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 29/01/2026

I'm analysing the Commission's Google AdTech Decision and finding it exceedingly difficult because of the _insane_ number of redactions. There are 4904 redactions yet only 2247 paragraphs in the whole thing. Seriously?!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse. I'm not surprised | George Monbiot

It took an FOI request to bring this national security assessment to light. For ‘doomsayers’ like us, it is the ultimate vindication, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 13/01/2026

"Machine Learning" and "Artificial Neural Networks," not LLM or GPT type "generative AI"

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 12/01/2026

A paper I wrote (on platform regulation & democracy) got nominated for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards! I wrote a short blog post explaining it here: todddavi.es/2026-concurr... There's a public vote to determine "reader's choice" so please take a look & vote it you're interested :)

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 10/01/2026

I finally deleted my account on X today. If you haven't already, this is a reminder :) It feels good!

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

If the Palestine Action hunger strikers die - which they could do at any moment, as they are now very close to the end - it will be the government that killed them. Today’s column explains why. Please share, and write urgently to your MP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Let’s be clear: if the Palestine Action hunger strikers die, the government will bear moral responsibility | George Monbiot

The three remaining hunger strikers have been convicted of nothing. Yet with astonishing cruelty, ministers refuse to listen to their reasonable demands, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Five years ago.

Front pages of American newspapers after Jan. 6, 2021, with headlines like "Capitol Chaos," "Assault on Democracy," "Pro-Trump mob storms Capitol."

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Anyway, it's hard to see how this makes the US more secure. And I can't help looking at the pictures of this massive naval deployment and thinking about how much it cost relative to giving Ukraine what it needs to defend itself. 10/10

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

🔥 This is huge 🔥 NEW YouGov poll: British are now MORE pro-EU than France or Italy. 👉 50% would vote to be in the EU 👉 Only 31% want to stay out 👉 Strip away don’t knows 👉62–38 in favour of EU membership. 🔥 Brexit is no more and Parliament must catch up! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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British voters want to be part of EU more than French and Italians, poll reveals

Exclusive: Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 02/01/2026

TIL that "Podcast" is derived from the words "iPod" and "broadcast". 🎙️

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 30/12/2025

Generative AI is having huge effects all across society. But how is it changing competition law and its enforcement? I was invited onto the Our Curious Amalgam podcast of the American Bar Association to discuss, and the episode came out yesterday: todddavi.es/blog/the-fut...

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Todd Davies | The Future of Enforcement and Compliance? How Computational Antitrust is Used

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 11/12/2025

I'm in Tech Policy Press today exploring the intersection of competition law and tech expertise. Who are tech experts? What do they know? And how might competition regulators use them best in an increasingly digital economy? www.techpolicy.press/who-are-tech... @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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Who are Tech Experts and What Can They Bring to Competition Enforcement? | TechPolicy.Press

Tech experts are playing an increasingly large role in competition enforcement, writes Todd Davies. But who are these experts, and what are they experts in?

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Karoline @karoline.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

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Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?

Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 28/11/2025

The Italian Competition Authority has imposed interim measures on Meta for tying its AI assistant into WhatsApp. An extremely welcome development! I wrote up an analysis in the Kluwer Competition Law Blog: legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/competition-...

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The Italian Competition Authority Imposes Interim Measures in its Abuse of Dominance Case Against Meta AI

As previously covered on this blog, Meta recently decided to integrate its AI assistant (Meta AI) into its WhatsApp platform, introducing the ability to chat to Meta AI at various points within the Wh...

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

1/This week has seen a blitz of what looks like corruption sandals: Saudi development deals for US military tech, Pakistani payments to Trump insiders for tariff relief, Swiss gold bars for a trade deal. Far from a payoff, this is a reordering of internat'l system. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mxthh...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/11/2025

This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.

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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

In applying AI to material science, biology, etc, capitalism is trying to shed science. The point is to substitute the engineering of a machine that can generate what science has hitherto done, but without having people know things. Knowledge ultimately residing in private property is the dream.

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Jeff Bezos Creates A.I. Start-Up Where He Will Be Co-Chief Executive

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock Today they are outweighed 1 to 20 Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Big story from Sky news. It is a mistake to think the DSA alone is going to fix this. This requires more, including and most particularly enforcement of GDPR Art 9 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

"The authoritarian populists target Verfassungsblog not only for what it does, but also for what it is: an open space dedicated to the serious and systematic pursuit of truth."

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 28/10/2025

The dark side of "computational antitrust" is when companies use AI to stymie competition law. It appears that tools to help them do so are emerging, as I wrote about in the Kluwer Competition Blog today. 1/n legalblogs.wolterskluwer.com/competition-...

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The Dark Side of Computational Antitrust: When AI is Used to Evade the Law

Given the creeping complexity of cases, expanding evidence bases, and the ever present threat (or reality) of budget cuts, competition authorities around the world are on the lookout for ways to strea...

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

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Teresa Ribera @teresaribera.ec.europa.eu · 27/10/2025

Doing things simpler may be a good idea. Deregulating may leave people behind and incentivise 27 different answers to replace the common one. www.ft.com/content/adba...

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Developing countries at risk from EU’s simplification drive, UN warns

Bid by Brussels to cut red tape is too dominated by politics, top officials say

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 26/10/2025

The biggest risk from generative AI isn't about super intelligence. The risk is it creating believable but fabricated realities, which will eat away at our ability to collectively discover what is true.

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Simonetta Vezzoso @wavesblog.eurosky.social · 25/10/2025

Code shouldn't be law - as @todddavi.es says, these platforms could just as easily have been coded differently - "No magic going on here" open.spotify.com/episode/7H8b...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Tech companies are potentially as dangerous to western economic security as China, and governments are struggling in the same way to balance the potential economic upsides with the threats.

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 24/10/2025

I was delighted to appear on the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age podcast recently, speaking about some recent work on generative AI and competition law. The episode is here: open.spotify.com/episode/7H8b... The paper it mostly draws from is here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/...

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Episode 4 - Todd Davies - Generative AI: Innovation or Infringement of Competition Law?

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 23/10/2025

Is it possible to have smartphones digitally sign photos/videos that they take? I can't think of a reason why not (although editing afterwards might be a bit tricky).

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Todd Davies @todddavi.es · 21/10/2025

Running a private equity firm in 2025 be like...

A screenshot of an article about board game collecting from The Guardian entitled "Experience: I own the world's largest Monopoly collection".

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