Global Antitrust Regulators Move Against AI Companies Before Proving Competitive Harm
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Toshiaki Takigawa, Dirk Auer
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This article analyzes the recent wave of antitrust enforcement actions against AI companies across multiple continents, arguing that regulators are taking premature action ("act first, learn later") before establishing that specific conduct actually harms competition. It discusses cases including Brazil's CADE fining Meta over WhatsApp chatbot access, Turkey's competition authority actions, and other global regulatory moves, framing these as potentially costly errors in regulating rapidly evolving AI markets at "machine speed."
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· 3 pulledCompetition enforcers appear to have discovered their own version of artificial intelligence: act first, learn later.
In the span of a week, agencies across four continents moved to reshape how AI products are built, distributed, and integrated—mostly before anyone has shown, in a final appealable decision, that the challenged conduct harms competition.
Last week, a federal court in São Paulo suspended the daily fine that Brazil's Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) had imposed on Meta for refusing to open WhatsApp to rival AI chatbots.
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