Aurélien Mähl 🇪🇺
@apmaehl.bsky.social
Policy @ DuckDuckGo. Follow for Tintin memes and tech/competition policy (or both). Brussels | Berlin
Most Tech CEOs aren't economists, and that's many get the "AI will destroy 90% of jobs" thing wrong. AI boosts productivity, which is the foundation of long-term growth. Jobs certainly undergo deep transformation, but...
Google in the DMA early days be all like "constructive compliance", "leveraging DMA compliance as competitive advantage". Fast forward to 2026: "The changes we’ve already made to Search under the DMA represent the biggest downgrade... www.ft.com/content/c5a8...
Brussels prepares fresh Google fines as Big Tech enforcement increases
Decisions will test whether the EU can police digital markets without reigniting tensions with Washington
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Nice and important campaign from a group of orgs interested in the DMA prohibition on self-preferencing in web search, targeting you-know-who: "a law you don't enforce is just a suggestion". finishthejob.eu
Finish The Job - Enforce the DMA
A growing coalition of European organisations calling on the Commission to enforce the Digital Markets Act in full and without delay.
finishthejob.eu
🦆🦊🎻 @duckduckgo.com , @mozilla.org Firefox and @vivaldi.com just published a joint letter to EU lawmakers on the Digital Omnibus: make privacy signals work for people, not against the products they already trust. 1/n
How many years has it been yet? Honestly sad for Australian businesses & consumers + the #ACCC itself which did great work on digital markets. www.mlex.com/mlex/antitru...
Deeply enjoyed my conversation with Oles a few weeks back - as you can see below we got to delve into the details!
@oandriychuk.bsky.social · 4mo agoEntering and scaling up in browser and search markets is a very hard challenge. @duckduckgo.com is among those few who have taken this challenge seriously. In this conversation with @apmaehl.bsky.social we've addressed various aspects of this. Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9up5...
Research into actual behaviors at the workplace hints to AI not replacing work, but rather intensifying it. Sounds familiar with what other technologies did in the past, like the ability to connect & communicate at any time. hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
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Zuckerberg says glasses that integrate Meta's AI tech are "going to be able to see what you see, hear what you hear, talk to you, and help you as you go about your day". I don't know for you but it just sent chills through my nerves. gizmodo.com/ai-that-unde...
'AI That Understands You': Mark Zuckerberg Plans to Deepen AI's Presence in Our Online Lives
"Glasses are the ultimate incarnation of this vision," he added.
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.@arcapde.bsky.social : "The Digital Omnibus proposal is bricolage" - disagreeing with the European Commission's rep insistence that the proposal's goal isn't to reduce privacy rights. #dataprotectionday
Such an impressive drop in fertility in the world's most populous countries. One of the defining traits of this century.
How could Zelensky not be bitter as he flew in from a freezing Kyiv, 4 years in the war? Sometimes it feels like Europe is accommodating itself with the dreadful "equilibrium" of this war. Sanctions are... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQdm...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum – watch live
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Not sure if Trump got confused or if the problem in fact got bigger, but he just talked about getting "Iceland" right now in Davos
Remarkable speech by Mark Carney - worth watching youtu.be/dqtDxkuvUdM
LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney Special Address at Davos WEF 2026
YouTube video by DRM News
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Judge Mehta was wrong wrong wrong. Wrong. WRONG. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
What Apple and Google’s Gemini deal means for both companies
They’re putting up a united front against AI newcomers.
theverge.com
Les entreprises françaises, trop aidées ? Si on soustrait de leurs impôts les aides publiques, la France est toujours sur ce funeste podium : "La France était à la 3e place de l’UE pour les prélèvements nets des aides en % de leur valeur ajoutée, derrière... www.lesechos.fr/economie-fra...
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Pretty cool year in review by @cloudflare.social radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi... Some interesting facts: - Snapchat and LinkedIn now outperforming X - Perplexity saw more traffic than Gemini in 2025 ...
Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review
The Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2025.
radar.cloudflare.com
La AI-assisted search de DuckDuckGo est maintenant disponible en Français (+ Espagnol, Allemand, Néerlandais) ! Et comme toutes nos fonctionalités d'IA, cela reste optionel, privé et utile.
Brexit should have been a lesson. It's a misunderstanding of sovereignty. Individual countries that are not China or the US have to follow the rules set by major powers as they have no bargaining power. Only together European countries are strong.
Cihan Çelik@cihancelik.bsky.social · 8mo agoWehrhafte Demokratie kann auch bedeuten: Twitter zerschlagen.
Welcomed explainer from @signal.org's president about last week's serious AWS-related incident. The concentration of infrastructure / resources among "hyperscalers" she points to is reminiscent to what exists with web search infrastructure.
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 9mo ago📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/
When it comes to web search, #GenAI looks more like a format shift within search than an external disruptive entrant; incumbents, especially Google, are positioned to absorb and dominate it. Without stronger interventions beyond... www.promarket.org/2025/10/20/w...
Will GenAI Break Google’s Dominance in Search? - ProMarket
Judge Amit Mehta shaped his remedies in the Google Search case on the assumption that startups developing generative artificial intelligence models can restore competition in internet search. Mihir Ks...
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Just like Google managed to cement dominance on browser and then mobile, its control over distribution points & data advantage is set to reproduce the same w/ AI. It's a call for meaningful policy interventions, but also a call for the plurality of competitors to expand & deepen their partnerships
Gabriel Weinberg@yegg13.bsky.social · 10mo ago🆕✍️ Is consumer AI heading for a duopoly? gabrielweinberg.com/p/consumer-a...
my latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on the US v. Google search antitrust case and just how badly the court missed the opportunity to contend with Google’s power in the genAI market. genAI won’t magically unseat Google’s market dominance, as the court suggests, it will only deepen it
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe Google search antitrust remedies trial decision fails to seriously contend with the tremendous advantages the company holds in the generative AI market due to its search monopoly says Kate Brennan, associate director at the AI Now Institute.
How the DuckDuckGo browser bridges search, web browsing and AI ⬇️ gabrielweinberg.com/p/the-overlo...
The overlooked front in the browser wars
Seamless workflows bridging search, browsing, and AI
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Recommended read by @alissacooper.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/without-a-pa... "If concerns raised about the inadequacy of the [data sharing] remedy are demonstrated through the failure of competition to take hold, the manner and timeliness for...
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I posted a couple times about how DuckDuckGo uniquely integrates AI answers to the search experience. But you better actually hear directly from Tim, one of those making the magic internally. "Search Assist is "unique in that way across the AI answers industry, in that it...
