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Antitrust:
- “J’accuse!” – Deadly Sins of the Commission’s Draft Guidelines on Exclusionary Abuses (Komninos – NLR)
- Lax Merger Enforcement Is a Myth (Mark Jamison – AEI)
- Revisiting The Market-Power Assumption In Platform Ecosystems (Barnett – ALJ)
- Adaptable Platforms for Platform Regulation: The Role of the Federal Trade Commission (Kovacic – Penn)
- Labor Monopsony and Antitrust Enforcement: A Distorting Mirror (Albrecht et al. – ICLE)
Artificial Inteligence:
- Big AI, The Compute Frenzy, and Grumpy Models (Sara Hooker – Scaling Theory) (Spotify + Apple)
- Myths and Policies in Scaling AI (Arvind Narayanan – Scaling Theory) (Spotify + Apple)
- Regulating under Uncertainty: Governance Options for Generative AI (Florence G’sell – Stanford)
- The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (Sakana)
- Predictions of AI doom are too much like Hollywood movie plots (Timothy B. Lee – Understanding AI)
- AI Watch: Global regulatory tracker (White & Case)
- Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Era (Bloomberg)
Digital:
- In Praise of World Controllers: For A World Without Change (Thibault Schrepel – NLR)
- The Universality and Predictability of Technology Diffusion (Doyne Farmer – Santa Fe)
- The language of the law vs. the language of the computer (Ali Ekber Cinar – LIT)
- Brussels slaps down Thierry Breton over ‘harmful content’ letter to Elon Musk (Alice Hancock – FT)
Blockchain:
- Debate rages over Bitcoin power law as critics label it a ‘magic trick’ (Tom Mitchelhill – Coin Telegraph)
- The Race to Dominate Stablecoins (Christian Catalini and Jane Wu – HBR)
Econ:
- Think Complexity Economics is too Complicated? (Venter & Varma – Exploring Economics)
- The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: A 9-Year Experiment (Brynjolfsson et al. – NBER)
- Start‐up acquisitions & strategic R&D (Dijk et al. – JEMS)
- Personal Bankruptcy Law and Innovation around the World (Douglas Cumming et al. – NBER)
Other:
- Scientists need more time to think (Nature)
- Politicized Scientists: Credibility Cost of Political Expression on Twitter (Eleonora Alabrese et al. – CES)
Thibault Schrepel
@ProfSchrepel
