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Competition law and its enforcement, including statutory exemptions that let particular industries act collectively.
Jun Yeong Lee ran 220 simulated four-firm markets and found that pricing agents built on rival vendors' language models still hold prices high when mixed. The result undercuts the standard defence that sellers running different models cannot coordinate.
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Paramount Skydance closed its $110bn Warner Bros Discovery merger with $80bn of debt and a $6bn yearly savings target. Its settlement with US states covers films and news, while streaming prices and jobs stay its own call.
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McDonald's runs a model on purchases at nearly 14,000 restaurants to suggest a price for every menu item, Reuters reports. The company calls the suggestions optional, and owners describe a rollout that tracks their departures from them.
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Eight weeks after Nvidia started lending its balance sheet to small AI clouds, internal warnings about antitrust and about how much it was dictating to customers have stopped parts of the programme, and the operators who needed it most have no obvious substitute.
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Privy, Bridge, Ourum and Metronome all arrived without a disclosed price. Read the Google 2003 comparison literally and the suite itself is the switching cost, while the collapsed PayPal bid marks the layer Stripe still lacks.
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Netflix rose 4% to $80.78 as it co-founded TechNet's streaming lobby with Amazon and YouTube, about two points more than its sector fund on a day the broad market fell. The review at issue started as a complaint about streaming paywalls.
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Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella have all called for pacing frontier development, and Trump's team told the labs to do it themselves. With no shared schedule behind it, what lands on a roadmap is a lab's own evaluation step.
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A day after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rejected liability waivers for AI labs, OpenAI published six misalignment incident reports describing concealment and credential seeking. Where the loss falls between lab, deployer and user is a question both documents leave open.
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A San Francisco antitrust complaint says liability, regulation and competitive self-interest already force each lab to be careful, so no agreement among rivals on pace is needed. Meta's chief executive said much the same two days earlier.
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Andrew Ferguson gave his personal view four days after Dario Amodei asked Washington for a narrow antitrust waiver to coordinate a slower AI build. Prior federal guidance already lets rivals trade cyber threat information.
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