Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Europe, European Commission, European Union, Regulation

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The World’s first hard-law horizontal legislation on artificial intelligence is currently nearing political agreement between the European Union’s (EU) three legislative branches, the European Parliament (EP), the Council of the European Union (the Council) and the European Commission (EC). Inter-institutional negotiations (or with their technical name, trilogues) continue, and there is an incredible amount of…

Artificial Intelligence, Digital, Digital competition, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, European Champions, Merger control, Merger notification, Merger regulation, Mergers, OTA

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Introduction On September 26th, the European Commission prohibited the acquisition of the online flight booking service eTraveli by Booking Holdings, the leading provider of online hotel bookings in the European Economic Area (EEA). The Commission argues that the acquisition would have strengthened Booking’s dominant position in the market for online hotel bookings by enabling it…

Artificial Intelligence, Ex ante regulation, Legislation

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The EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act) is a landmark EU-originated legislative proposal to regulate artificial intelligence based on its potential to cause harm. Therefore, it can also be labelled as a risk-based regulation, meaning that the regulative burden and duties increase with the specific AI systems’ potential to cause harm. For close watchers…

Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Competition enforcement, Competition law, Competition policy, Competition proceedings

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You’ve probably all seen the terror ChatGPT has unleashed on white collars, from research analysts to copywriters, over the past two months. What about lawyers, economists, or paralegals working in competition law? Let’s summarise for those who haven’t heard yet: ChatGPT is a chatbot created by OpenAI. It became the fastest-growing app in history, reaching…

Artificial Intelligence, Digital economy, European Commission, European Union, Regulation

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On April 21, 2021, the EU Commission adopted a proposal for a regulation (the AI Regulation) on “artificial intelligence systems” (AI systems), which it describes as “the first-ever legal framework on AI.” The AI Regulation will impose significant obligations impacting businesses across many, if not all, sectors of the economy. The AI Regulation will prove…