In a new paper, Dr Liza Lovdahl Gormsen calls attention to Google’s AI strategy and its strong echoes of previous anticompetitive behaviours that helped it win and then leverage its search monopoly. She urges the European Commission to learn from its past mistakes and to take bold action to prevent history repeating itself.
In a damning report, the most comprehensive review of European merger approvals in decades has found that cleared mergers have, on average, resulted in higher markups and reduced innovation – not just among merging parties, but across entire markets.
The Commission's approval comes despite months of warnings from civil society, journalists, and the film and TV industries that the deal would concentrate an unprecedented share of production, distribution and broadcasting power in the hands of one company, reducing the number of major American studios from four to three.
Without these orders, the 60% of Europeans who use an Android device would be locked into Gemini as their only system level AI assistant, and Google would continue to leverage its overwhelming monopoly over search data to gain an unfair advantage over its competitors in AI development.
