Overcoming Big Tech AI Merger Evasions: Innovating EU Competition Law through the AI Act Schaal, Jacob Author aut Emborg, Tekla Author aut Text xx# 2024 Verfassungsblog 2024-04-29 eng
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 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 Schaal, Jacob AI AI Big Tech Competition law ECJ EU EU merger control AI Competition law EU 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/overcoming-big-tech-ai-merger-evasions-innovating-eu-competition-law-through-the-ai-act/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/248c17455cc144bc 240429 10.59704/248c17455cc144bc Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)