antitrust
10 briefs
Meta Is Giving Rival AI Chatbots Free WhatsApp Access for One Month to Avoid a Fine It Cannot Afford Politically
The EU's DMA is forcing Meta to open the messaging platform it spent years locking down -- but a one-month free trial is not interoperability, it is a negotiating tactic.
The Supreme Court Refused to Save Apple's App Store. The Consequences Are Still Loading.
The Supreme Court denied Apple's emergency stay in the Epic antitrust case, forcing the company to open its iOS payment system. Apple now faces the same fight in Europe and a wave of copycat lawsuits from developers it has removed.
SCOTUS Lets Apple's Contempt Finding Stand. Now a Judge Gets to Set the Rules.
After five years of litigation, Epic Games wins a procedural victory that sends Apple back to district court to face the one question Apple has been fighting to avoid: how much can it charge?
Musk Vs. OpenAI: The Evidence That Could Sink Him Is His Own Text Message
Brockman is on the stand. Musk's pre-trial threat to make Altman 'the most hated man in America' may now be admissible. The lawsuit just shifted from charity law to motive.
Google Buys a Rival It Cannot Control
A $40 billion bet on Anthropic is less an investment than a structural admission that Google lost the AI race internally.
Google Just Paid $40 Billion for the AI Model That's Beating Its Own
Claude outsells Gemini in enterprise. Google's solution is to fund Claude. The market should read this as a confession, not a strategy.
Google Just Paid $40 Billion for a Competitor It Also Supplies
The largest single AI investment in history is also a structural contradiction: Google is now both Anthropic's landlord and its rival.
Anthropic Built a Cybersecurity Cartel. They're Calling It a Consortium.
Project Glasswing gives 40+ tech giants exclusive access to an AI that finds zero-day vulnerabilities at scale. The companies that control the internet's infrastructure now also control the tool that scans it for holes.
33 States Beat Ticketmaster. The DOJ Settled. The States Did Not.
A federal jury found Live Nation operated an illegal monopoly. The story is not about concert tickets. It is about what happens to antitrust enforcement when the federal government stops doing it.
The Boycott That Became a Federal Case
The FTC is in settlement talks with major ad agencies over whether they illegally coordinated to withhold ad spending from X. Whether or not the underlying conduct was illegal, the investigation itself tells you who has power at the FTC right now.