Did Apple jump, or was it pushed?
That is the question Brussels would rather not answer after Apple announced that its new Siri AI features will not ship on iPhones and iPads in the European Union. The European Commission says
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Brussels Reboots Merger Control. Now Debug the Discretion.
By Alden Abbott
European Union merger control is getting a software update. The question is whether the new code will make the system faster, smarter, and better at spotting real competitive problems—or simply give the European Commission more buttons to press.
The pending…
The FTC’s Robinson-Patman Hangover
There is no special virtue in seeing a bad case through to the bitter end. At some point, persistence looks less like principle and more like a sunk cost with a docket number.
Last week, I wrote about the Federal…
Paramount’s Mission: Impossible Antitrust Case
By Eric Fruits
Hollywood loves a sequel, and the antitrust fight over Paramount Skydance’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) is becoming one. First came the familiar streaming-monopoly scare. Now comes the more personal version: the writers, drivers, and actors…
The EU’s Bid to Nationalize Space
Europe’s latest space policy has a simple theory: To build a champion, you must first clear the field.
The European Commission’s newly adopted proposal to reallocate the 2 GHz mobile-satellite-service (MSS) band—a slice of radio spectrum used for satellite communications—would…
No Free Lunch at Linney’s Pizza
By Ben Sperry
A pizza shop wants lower debit-card fees. Fair enough. But if it wins, the tab may not land where diners expect. It could reshape administrative law, narrow the Federal Reserve’s discretion, and make ordinary checking accounts more expensive.
That is…
The DMA Meets the Rule of Law
By Alden Abbott
The European Union’s Digital Markets Act was built to move fast: designate gatekeepers, impose obligations, and reshape digital markets before the lawyers can finish sharpening their pencils. But in Meta Platforms Ireland v. Commission, the General Court offered a useful…
Artificial Intelligence, Natural Ignorance
Everyone in Washington seems to agree that artificial intelligence must be governed. The only real dispute is who gets the steering wheel. Congress? Federal agencies? State legislatures? Some newly minted task force with a long acronym and a taste for…
The FTC’s Sunk-Cost Social Network
The first rule of holes is supposed to be: stop digging. The sunk-cost fallacy is realized when we keep digging anyway—and then call it resolve.
We—people—often have a hard time letting a bad thing go. That’s true even for those…
Antitrust Standing Room Only
By Onyeka Aralu
Antitrust law does not hand out damages just because someone got hurt in the general vicinity of an antitrust violation. A plaintiff must show more than bad conduct, more than lost money, and more than a plausible violation of the…