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Pacing frontier AI models – The EU regulatory perspective
Continue reading: Pacing frontier AI models – The EU regulatory perspectiveLast week, the news was filled with reports on statements from a former Anthropic developer who had warned that AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade”. One of Anthropic’s senior safety researchers agreed and put the likelihood of this occurring at higher than 10%. Following this, Dario Amodei, head of Anthropic,…
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Remember Section 19a GWB?
Continue reading: Remember Section 19a GWB?Five Years On: Big Hopes, Modest Results When the Bundeskartellamt was handed the world’s first bespoke competition toolkit against the largest digital platforms in January 2021, it was billed as a genuine breakthrough. Section 19a of the Act against Restraints of Competition (GWB) allows the authority to designate a company as being “of paramount significance…
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When Hosting Becomes Doing: The Narrowing of the Platform Liability Exemption from the e-Commerce Directive to the DSA
Continue reading: When Hosting Becomes Doing: The Narrowing of the Platform Liability Exemption from the e-Commerce Directive to the DSAThree recent CJEU judgments, Russmedia, Coyote System and AGCOM v Google Ireland, significantly narrow the hosting-liability exemption that platforms have long relied on. This blog explains what the rulings mean for platform operators under the DSA’s Articles 6 and 8, and where tensions remain with VLOP due-diligence duties.
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Who Guards the Gatekeepers? Media Pluralism in the Platform Era
Continue reading: Who Guards the Gatekeepers? Media Pluralism in the Platform EraBy Dr. Konstantina Bania and Ana-Caterina Ciusca Who Guards the Gatekeepers? Media Pluralism in the Platform Era Who decides which news reaches you? Increasingly, the answer is not just newspaper owners or broadcasters, but the platforms that host, rank and recommend content to billions of users. That raises an old question in a new form:…
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Swedish Court Overturns Fine for Agreement Not to Bid on Competitors’ Brands as Google Ads Keywords
Continue reading: Swedish Court Overturns Fine for Agreement Not to Bid on Competitors’ Brands as Google Ads KeywordsOn June 4, 2026, the Stockholm District Court’s Patent and Market Court annulled a fine against Min Doktor for a non-brand bidding agreement with competitors. The Court determined that such agreements do not inherently restrict competition “by object,” marking a significant development in EU competition law regarding keyword bidding practices and their effects on market…
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No Data, No Party: Why Competition for High‑Quality Journalism Matters in the GenAI Race
Continue reading: No Data, No Party: Why Competition for High‑Quality Journalism Matters in the GenAI RaceIf you follow debates about generative AI, you will have heard a lot about compute and talent. Cloud infrastructure, GPU clusters, and elite machine‑learning teams have become the standard shorthand for what really matters in the AI arms race. What is missing from that conversation is the third leg of the stool: data – and in particular, high‑quality, human‑generated content…
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From Brussels Template to UK Tailoring: How the DMCCA Is (Re)writing the Rules for Big Tech
Continue reading: From Brussels Template to UK Tailoring: How the DMCCA Is (Re)writing the Rules for Big TechBy Dr. Konstantina Bania The UK has built a “rival” to the EU’s Digital Markets Act – and it is now starting to use it. Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA), the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is moving from abstract principles to concrete, platform‑specific rules for some of the most powerful…
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Meta v AGCOM: the Court endorses “regulated contractual freedom” between platforms and press
Continue reading: Meta v AGCOM: the Court endorses “regulated contractual freedom” between platforms and pressBy Dr. Konstantina Bania With its Grand Chamber judgment in Meta Platforms Ireland v AGCOM (C‑797/23), the Court of Justice of the EU has handed down a major ruling on Article 15 of the DSM Copyright Directive. Beneath the technicalities lies a clear policy signal: the Court is willing to let Member States wrap the press publishers’…
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Making the DMA Bite: What Two Years of Enforcement Teaches Us About the Future of Digital Regulation
Continue reading: Making the DMA Bite: What Two Years of Enforcement Teaches Us About the Future of Digital RegulationBy Dr. Konstantina Bania and Philine Wassenaar A deep dive into the European Commission’s first wave of Digital Markets Act enforcement, ongoing investigations, and what the 2026 review tells us about regulating Big Tech in the age of AI The promise and the reality Two years ago, the EU launched one of its most ambitious…
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From Dependency to Fairness: Legal Pathways for Content Creators in Platform Markets
Continue reading: From Dependency to Fairness: Legal Pathways for Content Creators in Platform MarketsOver the past decade, a striking paradox has emerged in digital content markets. On the one hand, we have an unprecedented explosion of creativity; independent journalists, podcasters, musicians, game developers and influencers can, in principle, reach global audiences from a laptop. On the other hand, a shrinking number of platforms increasingly determine which content is…