🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎙️ Where should I start? I am launching a new academic podcast called “Scaling Theory”. I am of course incredibly excited, but more importantly, I hope you’ll find it interesting. I want to explore the power laws behind the growth of businesses, technologies, legal systems, and living systems. The podcast will feature scholarly discussions with select guests (I’ve already recorded a couple, to be published very soon!!) and deep dives into the academic literature. Everything is explained in the introductory episode. ➝ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/7o5GqR… ➝ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas… ➝ YouTube: piped.video/channel/UCoxJ0e-…

NEW PAPER: I share a few tentative thoughts on where #computationalantitrust may go, including one key question: how much of antitrust should we be willing to automate? I also make a bet: cognitive science will become the defining terrain of computational antitrust. Grateful to CPI for the space. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

24 EU judgments since 1980 weighed a public-interest plea for restricting competition. Since 2006, NOT ONE has saved an agreement between competitors. A pact to slow AI down for safety would be the first. The full record, step by step: thecompetitionsystem.substac…

Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust 5th annual report in one video: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

NEW EPISODE. Your city, your employer, your CEO’s paycheck and the next market crash obey the same law. @xgabaix (@HarvardEcon) spent his career working out why. Here is the answer. ➝ open.spotify.com/episode/4i5… ➝ piped.video/hksXBzu4AnU ➝ podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcas… #scalingtheory

“People of the same trade seldom meet together […] the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.” Smith, 1776. This summer the frontier AI labs met, then asked Washington for an antitrust waiver. Would their pact survive EU law? My analysis, grounded in all @EUCourtPress cases. thecompetitionsystem.substac…

“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us. I do not think that there is very much that we can do that computer will not eventually be programmed to do.” Daniel Kahneman (2018) I think of this regularly…

RT @sapinker: My Open Letter to Scott Alexander, following his challenge to meet in a debating duel. quillette.substack.com/p/an-…

The Draghi report diagnosed regulatory burden and fragmentation as the reason European firms stay small. The European Innovation Act repeals no Union obligation, reduces none of the 27 enforcement environments, and amends exactly one instrument: the EU trade mark Regulation. thecompetitionsystem.substac…

At the risk of oversimplifying, I see two camps: ➝ If you like 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 the most, you want these companies to do what they please, including agreeing among themselves and writing their own rules. ➝ If you like 𝐥𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 the most, you deny them the right to do anything that can affect competition as a discovery procedure.

A short message to thank everyone on this platform for sharing so widely the three openings in my ERC project ATLANTIS, dedicated to building a legal regime for computational antitrust. It helped a lot. 398 people applied from all over the world. I will now conduct two rounds of interviews with a jury that will help me make difficult hiring decisions. I also take this opportunity to share the ATLANTIS website, where you will find the team’s publications, activities and findings... teamatlantis.eu/updates/phd-…

The question for AI is to what extend returns are increasing. A new paper by Tom Cunningham et al. puts a number on it. Self-sustaining acceleration needs each capability gain to lift AI R&D productivity by 15%. The estimate today is about 9%, and... it is rising! arxiv.org/abs/2609.15802 This has big implications for law. One does not regulate self-improved systems as others, see papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…

This regulation won’t work. What I share below is a deepfake: I used AI to change the logo and character colors. If you see the “deepfake” label on my post you’ll simply assume @DigitalEU never published this post. But they did.

The three policies Bloom, Van Reenen and Williams rate highest for innovation: R&D tax credits, skilled immigration, trade and competition. The European Innovation Act is silent on the first two and works against the third. I coded the 28 things the economics literature says make an economy innovative. The Act touches two. thecompetitionsystem.substac…

The fastest change we have ever recorded. Two editions ago, no competition agency reported an internal LLM assistant. This year, 19 of 30 run or build one. From nothing to the most common tool in the field in two years. Fifth report, free. shorturl.at/wmEaW #computationalantitrust

101 antitrust initiatives on generative AI by antitrust agencies, Feb 2023 to July 2026. ➝ 2023: United States 7, Europe 7. ➝ 2026 (ongoing): Europe 15, United States 1. Every enforcement action in the database since November 2025 is European. networklawreview.org/antitru…

Big companies want big regulation.

GREAT piece of journalism. I sum up: - @MistralAI is moving away from the desire to be a frontier lab - The company is now focusing on deployment within big companies (including the deployment of Chinese models). - These companies CEOs find Mistral strategy hard to follow… which they don’t like (makes it for an uncertain business partner). archive.ph/RNWs7