Associate Prof @VU_Law • Faculty Affiliate @CodeXStanford • Founder Stanford #ComputationalAntitrust project | @NetworkLawRev | Scaling Theory podcast • 🎾 🏃
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🎙️ 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: youtube.com/channel/UCoxJ0e-…
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We mourn the loss of Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a longtime #UChicagoLaw scholar, former federal appellate judge, and pioneer in the field of law and economics, who died on November 10.
Read more about his legacy: buff.ly/e3c3WdL
ALT In loving memory of Richard Posner 1939-2026
I coded 108 decisions and judgments on access to a dominant firm’s input, from Commercial Solvents (1974) to WhatsApp. WhatsApp is the only Article 102 prohibition or interim order in which the Commission itself sets the price of access at zero. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
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Every digital competition intervention is now a cybersecurity event. Every security architecture is a market structure decision.
EU law has not caught up. The DMA forces openness without asking what it does to security, and the Data Act reduces security to an exception clause.
Our new paper maps the gaps and proposes a fix papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Every digital competition intervention is now a cybersecurity event. Every security architecture is a market structure decision.
EU law has not caught up. The DMA forces openness without asking what it does to security, and the Data Act reduces security to an exception clause.
Our new paper maps the gaps and proposes a fix papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
I am organizing a conference at VU Amsterdam on 14 December. Peter Wennink, Martijn Snoep, Cani Fernández, Marc van der Woude and an Oxford-style debate I will moderate. Join us!!
alti.amsterdam/future-of-dig…
The lesson of the WhatsApp decision for every platform. Opening an API to third parties creates the evidence that will be used to keep it open, whatever the reason you opened it. Openness now carries a legal cost. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
The Commission has published no merger simulation results since 2018. Why? James Andrews and Peter Ormosi have a clear idea why... networklawreview.org/merger-…
The European Commission @EU_Competition has just told @Meta that once you open your door to others, you may not close it. For now, you may not charge at the door either. #Locke would have had questions. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
For years: regulators MUST regulate quantum computing to preserve encryption.
Today: oh, wait, AI could do the trick instead.
The General Court defines network effects as the value of a product rising with the number of its users. Then it applies the definition to hotels and travellers, which is a different mechanism with different economics. Odd. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
Antitrust often, not always but often, has a technical/market counterpart that does it better. Case in point.
We decoupled memory from the model.
Living Brain is one persistent brain for ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex and your own agents. Write in one, retrieve in any.
92.2% on LoCoMo. 464ms median retrieval. Up to 22.6x fewer tokens per question.
LLMs have parameters. Living Brain has plasticity.
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The CrowdStrike outage crashed 8.5 million Windows machines in July 2024. Part of the reason was a 2009 EU antitrust commitment that forced Microsoft to open its kernel to rival security vendors.
With Georgiana Mirza, we look at what EU law does when competition and cybersecurity collide. Short answer: not much.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Same institution, same economics, opposite reading. When the Commission clears a merger, network effects are a reason not to worry: 52 times. When it fines under Article 102, they are a barrier: 199 times. The piece shows where the switch happens. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
My October reading list is out. A computational rule of reason, network effects that do not foreclose, the claim that neural networks are already clean, Tyler Cowen’s AI university, and the wisdom of prediction markets.
networklawreview.org/october…
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NEW: In competition law, we love to talk about “network effects”. I checked what the Court and the Commission mean by it, across 950 passages. Short answer: they share the word and not much else. thecompetitionsystem.substac…
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Draghi asked Europe to let its firms scale. An AI start-up scaling across the EU now faces 27 administrations. The full map, Member State by Member State, is in the audit: thecompetitionsystem.substac…
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New: “Permission to Learn: An Economic Approach to AI Copyright” by @joshgans.
Licences for AI training cannot be negotiated in advance. So let training proceed, and compensate creators once outputs actually substitute for their work.
networklawreview.org/gans-ai….
