The Next Browser War: What Does the DMA Say About It?

The Frank­fur­ter All­ge­mei­ne Zei­tung recent­ly published a thought-pro­­vo­king artic­le on AI brow­sers and their gro­wing com­pe­ti­ti­on with con­ven­tio­nal web brow­sers. The pie­ce speaks of an emer­ging “new brow­ser war.” Below are two brief reflec­tions on this deve­lo­p­ment from the per­spec­ti­ve of the Digi­tal Mar­kets Act (DMA). 1. Gate­kee­per Desi­gna­ti­on of AI Brow­sers under the DMA If AI…

Model Collapse and Access to Uncontaminated Datasets – A Competition Law Perspective

The artic­le exami­nes how Euro­pean com­pe­ti­ti­on law, spe­ci­fi­cal­ly the Essen­ti­al Faci­li­ties Doc­tri­ne, could app­ly to so-cal­­led uncon­ta­mi­na­ted data­sets in the field of AI. This con­clu­si­on is drawn by an inter­na­tio­nal­ly renow­ned team of rese­ar­chers in a recent JOLT Digest con­tri­bu­ti­on. Their insights war­rant fur­ther reflec­tion, and the artic­le its­elf is worth rea­ding. Howe­ver, a brief sum­ma­ry and…