Here are Thibault Schrepel’s monthly reading suggestions. Topics include the European Commission’s draft merger guidelines, how well merger simulations predict price changes, why data neutrality can shrink the data a platform produces, when collusion between pricing agents breaks down, the gap between how competition agencies now compute and what the law assumes they do, undetectable backdoors in neural networks, evidence of a global workspace inside Claude, whether preprint conclusions survive peer review, why AI labs are hiring philosophers, user innovation...