The European Commission wants to treat cloud computing as a gatekeeper market. That is the wrong diagnosis, and it would lead to the wrong cure.
The Commission’s preliminary view that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated
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Don’t Put the Government on the Cap Table
By Satya Marar
When Washington offers to “share the upside,” check the fine print. With artificial intelligence, the proposed bargain is not just that taxpayers might get a slice of the next great American industry. It is that the federal government would become…
Texas Wants to Check Your App Store Papers
By Ben Sperry
Smartphones are no longer just phones. For kids, they are libraries, newspapers, classrooms, cameras, maps, town squares, and, yes, bottomless distraction machines. Texas Senate Bill 2420 treats access to all of it as something that should first pass through a…
The Roswell Loophole: How to Stop Wireless Deployment One Permit at a Time
A city does not need to hang a “no cell towers allowed” sign to keep wireless service out. It can get there the quieter way: deny one permit, then another, each for reasons that sound local, particular, and perfectly ordinary.…
Brazil Catches the Acqui-Hire Wave
The global antitrust wave over Big Tech’s artificial intelligence deals has reached Brazil. The question is whether Brazil’s competition authority is paddling into a real breaker—or mistaking regulatory chop for a swell.
Last month, Brazil’s antitrust authority, the Administrative Council…
Fit for Purpose, Unfit for Review: Why the DMA’s First Evaluation Could Never Find Failure
By Lazar Radic
The first review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) reads less like an evaluation than a wellness check performed by the patient’s proud parent. The pulse is strong. The color is good. Any lingering symptoms? Too early to tell. …
Act First, Learn Later: AI Antitrust and the Error Costs of Regulation at Machine Speed
Competition enforcers appear to have discovered their own version of artificial intelligence: act first, learn later. In the span of a week, agencies across four continents moved to reshape how AI products are built, distributed, and integrated—mostly before anyone has…
California’s Other Wealth Tax
California is once again testing how much punishment capital will tolerate before it packs a bag. The state’s impending ballot proposition imposing a “billionaire’s tax” has drawn plenty of attention for precisely that reason: If the tax drives…
If at First Consumers Don’t Switch, Regulate Again
By Lazar Radic
Under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), consumers are apparently sovereign—right up until they choose the wrong thing.
When Mozilla reports that Firefox is now selected through a DMA browser-choice screen once every 10 seconds—more than 6 million selections in total,…
Bolted to the Floor, Not Written in the Clouds
Europe wanted technological sovereignty. On June 12, it got a demonstration of technological dependence.
That day, the U.S. government cut non-Americans off from access to two of the world’s most advanced AI models. Brussels’ flagship response to precisely this scenario—the…