nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/248c17455cc144bc DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 240429s2024||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/248c17455cc144bc doi eng 342 23 Schaal, Jacob Author aut Overcoming Big Tech AI Merger Evasions: Innovating EU Competition Law through the AI Act Schaal, Jacob Verfassungsblog 2024-04-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier To develop AI, computing power and access to data (aka bigness) are crucial. Now, Big Tech companies appear evading EU competition law. Companies like Google and Microsoft evade the EU Merger Regulation by entering partnerships with smaller AI labs that fall short of shifting ownership but nevertheless increase the monopolistic power of Big Tech. These quasi-mergers are particularly problematic in the context of generative AI, which relies even more than many other services on incredibly vast computing power. That is a dire state from an economic as well as a more fundamental and democratic perspective, as concentrating economic might in the hands of very few companies may cause problems down the road. CC BY-SA 4.0 AI AI Big Tech Competition law ECJ EU EU merger control (DE-588)5031625-4 gnd AI (DE-588)1220796565 gnd Competition law (DE-588)10290611-7 gnd EU Emborg, Tekla Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/overcoming-big-tech-ai-merger-evasions-innovating-eu-competition-law-through-the-ai-act/ raw object