In this issue, we explore the sobering lessons of the last big railroad merger to evaluate the proposal to merge Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern.
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In this issue, we explore how Google’s proprietary AI chips will do little to dent Nvidia’s monopoly over the industry. We also released a new playbook to help state policymakers stop the encroachment of private equity into child care..
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In this issue, we explore the legal and economic impact of OpenAI’s deals to lock up supply of memory chips.
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In this issue, we look at Amazon’s recent lawsuit that aims to keep Perplexity’s AI agents from “intruding” on Amazon’s website, in a case that could help determine the future of the emerging AI agent market.
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In this issue, we explore Google’s growing power in the television industry, as the tech giant uses YouTube T V to squeeze major TV programmers like Fox and Disney.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we take a look at how Democratic lawmakers are failing to fight President Trump’s willful dismantling of regulatory agency independence. And our report on how electric utilities block affordable and more reliable energy alternatives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this issue, we explore how a new initiative from the Federal Communications Commission will only further consolidate the broadcast media industry.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this issue, we look at how Microsoft is exploiting its control over Bing search data to force adoption of its cloud services and AI systems.
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In this issue, we celebrate OMI’s own Claire Kelloway for receiving a James Beard Award for her reporting and examine how a case against two pharmacy benefit managers in Michigan could have implications for the industry nationwide.
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