In this issue, we take a closer look at whether Trump tariff policies are the only reason Europe might moderate a key carbon pricing mechanism, which lies at the heart of its climate change policy.
In this issue, we explore how a deal by shipping giant MSC and BlackRock to buy dozens of port terminals from a Hong Kong-based operator will concentrate international trade in the hands of a single foreign corporation and threaten national security, despite the U.S. asset manager’s involvement.
In this issue, we conclude that Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors whose pirated works were used to train its AI model will fail to deter the AI industry’s abusive practices.
In this issue, we recap our 2-day Future of Democracy conference in Brussels and analyze the recently concluded remedies trial for Google’s monopoly over digital advertising.
In this issue, we explore how a new initiative from the Federal Communications Commission will only further consolidate the broadcast media industry.
In this issue, we explore how President Trump’s strategy of taking equity stakes in companies critical to national security is geared to fail. And we look forward to our October 15 and 16 conference on the US-Europe conflict over Free Speech and Democracy.
In this issue, we look at last week’s very different enforcement actions in Brussels and Washington on Google antitrust. And how Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Facebook get you to subsidize their enormous AI electricity bills.
In this issue, we discuss President Trump’s “revocation” of President Biden’s Executive Order on Competition. And we describe how the fight to defend FTC’s 2024 ban on non-compete clauses has moved to the states.
In this issue, we examine how RealPage, the target of a series of lawsuits for its algorithmic rent-setting software, has begun weaponizing the First Amendment to fend off moves to ban its software, most recently in Berkeley, California.
In this issue, we explore how America’s largest utility, NextEra, used a range of hardball tactics to block a big clean energy project in New England.