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Initiative For A Competitive Online Marketplace. Google antitrust complainant. RT ≠ endorsement. Contact: [email protected]

[Steven Overly @StevenOverly]

On a quiet, downtown street in Detroit, one little protest truck (paid for by Demand Progress) stands up to the forces of Big Tech. It’s parked across from the hotel where trade officials from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework countries are meeting.

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

A new section on Mobile Telecom Infrastructure Sharing Agreements reflecting recent enforcement practice in chapter of Horizontal Guidelines on Production Agreements
sets out factors relevant for the assessment of these agreements and includes a list of minimum conditions that…

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

Machine learning is no excuse to break the law. Today's settlement on Amazon Alexa should set off alarms for parents across the country - and is a warning for every AI company sprinting to acquire more and more data.

My full statement with @LinaKhanFTC and @RKSlaughterFTC:

[Luther Lowe @lutherlowe]

There’s a step between 1 & 2 you missed where Google buys Tenor and aggressively self-preferences gif search, driving Giphy’s plummet in traffic and teeing up the Facebook lowball offer.

[Joseph E. Stiglitz @JosephEStiglitz]

News publishers are figuring out how much Google and Meta owe them for publishing news online. Google is offering money to publishers "in a bid to forestall government legislation impelling them to pay up," @anyasipa writes. https://t.co/d6FIlNY7qK

[Luther Lowe @lutherlowe]

It’s worth looking back on how Google front groups communicated about Neeva:

Google is so confident in its dominance, it will spend money on front groups to hype its competitors to present the illusion of competition (and thus no need for antitrust enforcement).

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

#Google CEO @sundarpichai has a busy day at @Berlaymont today meeting with: @MargSchinas who promotes the European way of life; @VeraJourova who has been working on disinformation, and @vestager talk only about regulating #AI and #DMA or also old #antitrust cases?? #competition

[ICOMP voices @ICOMPvoices]

Google is rolling out new artificial intelligence tools to help marketers create advertisements https://t.co/jb0WU0braG via @technology

[@johnnyryan.bsky.social @johnnyryan]

As I write today in @TheEconomist, there are two big lessons to learn from 5 years of the GDPR

https://t.co/4rFO4gs5NC

[ICOMP voices @ICOMPvoices]

Don’t be fooled by Meta’s fine for data breaches, says Johnny Ryan https://t.co/ET5uHo96Mp

[ICOMP voices @ICOMPvoices]

YouTube is the most popular TV network in the US
…its share of TV viewing time eclipsed 8% last month. It now has a decent lead on Netflix, which lost share despite releasing a couple of big new hits. via @business https://t.co/KtPaziCurM

[Umberto GAMBINI 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺 @UGambini]

#Meta is expected to face a record privacy fine on Monday when Ireland’s data protection watchdog confirms the social media #platform mishandled people’s #data when shipping it to the United States, according to two people with direct knowledge

Size of fine not confirmed but BIG

[Elizabeth M. Renieris @hackylawyER]

Unfortunately, and with all due respect POTUS, these are not the people who can tell us what is "most needed to protect society" when it comes to #AI

[The Tech Oversight Project @Tech_Oversight]

NEW POLL 🚨Tech Oversight Project + @ChangePolls national poll shows over half of Americans support Congressional AI action–not leaving it up to tech companies to regulate themselves. https://t.co/99lWWyHvvh

[The Tech Oversight Project @Tech_Oversight]

.@meta is literally so mad they won’t be able to profit off of abusing your kids’ data anymore.
https://t.co/ExAjleThYx

[The Tech Oversight Project @Tech_Oversight]

BREAKING: By a 2-to-1 margin, voters want Congress to take action on AI, so policies and regulations protect consumers, not corporations’ bottom line.

They don’t trust Big Tech to regulate themselves.

Full polling here: [https://t.co/FPmfAs9Wqg]

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

News release! Online consumers at risk from ‘intelligent’ price manipulation. Algorithms used to set prices in online marketplaces put consumers at risk of collusion among sellers, finds study from @oiioxford and @ImperialDSI computer scientists: https://t.co/8KAP2mcOB8 1/3

[Elizabeth M. Renieris @hackylawyER]

It strikes me that this meeting would be much more honest & productive with at least one critical #AI expert in attendance. https://t.co/JjdLB6z9wi

[Elizabeth M. Renieris @hackylawyER]

"The Administration is announcing an independent commitment from leading AI developers (Anthropic, Google, Hugging Face, MS, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Stability AI) to participate in a public evaluation of AI systems on an evaluation platform developed by Scale AI."https://t.co/GVGKNg8Z36

[Luther Lowe @lutherlowe]

“Judge says Google co-founder Larry Page can be served with legal papers in Jeffrey Epstein suit”

This is interesting considering Epstein & Page’s private islands are quite close to one another and their planes shared the same local air strip. 🤔 https://t.co/7oktpgE9qt