Helena Malikova
@helenamalikova.bsky.social
Fellow Harvard Kennedy School ‘24-25, fellow Hertie School Berlin. Day job at European Commission. Views are not any employer’s.
A #dighum #dighum2026 special – I've put all my thoughts about about "hyperscalers" and allegedly US AI in one place. Featured a bit is @helenamalikova.bsky.social of course #digitalGovernance #DMA #AIRegulation #antitrust #GAFAM #transnationalUtilities joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/06/work...
Working With Giants
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
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[Commentary] #Tech: #BigTech’s shadow market power. Big Tech firms are amassing market power through strategies that bypass current rules, by @helenamalikova.bsky.social , @briannarock.bsky.social & Anna Marchese | @projectsyndicate.bsky.social www.pubaffairsbruxelles.eu/opinion-anal...
Big tech’s shadow market power - PubAffairs Bruxelles
Big Tech firms are amassing market power through strategies that bypass current rules for oversight, investigation, and intervention. Unless and until regulators account for the full scope and scale o...
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Read. This. Excellent piece by the brilliant @helenamalikova.bsky.social. Below the surface, invisible to the naked eye, American tech has acquired even more power in Europe than you thought. Europe really, urgently needs to wake up.
Helena Malikova@helenamalikova.bsky.social · 4mo agoBig Tech firms are amassing market power through investment strategies that bypass current rules for oversight and intervention. We interrogate this shadow market power in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social with co-authors @briannarock.bsky.social &Anna Marchese. prosyn.org/27KPJov?h=AE...
Big Tech firms are amassing market power through investment strategies that bypass current rules for oversight and intervention. We interrogate this shadow market power in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social with co-authors @briannarock.bsky.social &Anna Marchese. prosyn.org/27KPJov?h=AE...
Big Tech’s Shadow Market Power
Helena Malikova, Brianna Rock and Anna Marchese explain how Silicon Valley giants are heading off potential competition without drawing antitrust scrutiny.
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Last year @globsec.org the US was on a full press about how China didn't have regulations (false: CN is the most heavily regulated in AI in the world.) This year it's that "you need homogeneity (giant monopolies) to get good stuff." Politicians, military, & GAFAM saying that on stage. Also false 1/2
Call to boycott the 4th of July party organised by the US government in Brussels www.brusselstimes.com/2121018/got-...
Got an invite to the 'Freedom 250' party?
Forgive me. I’m trying to spoil a party. I'm referring here to Independence Day celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the United States. If you're...
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The emperor has no clothes. Takes a queen to tell. @wavesblog.eurosky.social "I cannot really express enough how bad [Europe's] industrial organization economics approach to antitrust has been," Simonetta Vezzoso "I am totally against that type of economics." 🙌👑 x.com/politicoeuro...
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UC Berkeley CS major enrollment on pace to drop by 59% as part of nationwide trend
The decline in campus computer science graduates mirrors a trend across the UC system, with CS major enrollment across the university decreasing in 2025 for the first time since the
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Finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Portugal, Austria & Italy are calling on the EU to introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies. This is a no brainer and should be implemented swiftly. Our democracies can’t take another redistribution shock. www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/h...
In June 2007, investment bank Bear Stearns froze redemptions from two of its hedge funds. The funds had reported losses on their subprime mortgage assets triggering withdrawals by investors. The rest is history - of the financial crisis.
"After the rapid growth of data centers triggered pushback from politicians, utilities and local residents over the pressures they place on the grid, tech companies are now building their own fleet of private power plants, mostly fueled by natural gas."
Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.
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US media didn't warn US voters loudly enough that Trump and Maga were out to create a kind of police state this time around. Thanks Pamela Moriniere @rtbf.be and @ifjglobal.bsky.social for the opportunity to hammer this point home.
Trump contre la presse : un avertissement pour l’Europe, avec Pamela Morinière
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Thousands protest in Spanish city Bilboa against fascism and imperialism on 31 January.
Full room and standing ovation for @timothysnyder.bsky.social in Brussels tonight. Resistance needs to work collectively and develop a positive notion of freedom. Europe should avoid the US tech race to the bottom. So-called “innovation” makes us dumber! #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU🇪🇺
Explosions hit Venezuelan capital Caracas. It looks like Trump has decided to go to war, quite a move for a wanna-be Nobel Peace Prize candidate
Useful background on TESCREAL - transhumanism, extropianism, singularitarianism, cosmism, rationalism, effective altruism, and longtermism bsky.app/profile/j2br...
Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis is kind of nuts, how completely accurately this new-age-sounding panel announcement seems to perfectly describe a big part of our present political problem space. events.ccc.de/congress/202... cc @helenamalikova.bsky.social #AIEthics
🗳️ for your choice of book of the century. @theobserveruk.bsky.social selected a short list for you. www.smartsurvey.com/t/observerbo...
More negative than I am about the state of AI governance globally, & doesn't mention strengths in markets outside US & CN that I first documented with @helenamalikova.bsky.social & have since only increased, but good to debunk the "Chinese AI has no regulation" myth. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
China wants to lead the world on AI regulation — will the plan work?
Having placed artificial intelligence at the centre of its own economic strategy, China is driving efforts to create an international system to govern the technology’s use.
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Every upcoming summit of EU leaders is meant to be about "competitiveness". Then stuff happens. And thus: No summit of EU leaders ends up actually being about "competitiveness".
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 10mo agoEuropean Council President António Costa intends to summon EU leaders to an informal retreat in rural Belgium next February to discuss the bloc's competitiveness.
Post WWII, the allies (mostly US / UK) told DE & JP "break up your monopoly & put competition law in your new constitution. Because whenever a company gets too large, either it takes over the government or the government takes over it, and either way you get autocracy." 1/2 wapo.st/3L3lFHT
India’s $3.9 billion plan to help Modi’s mogul ally after U.S. charges
Internal documents detail how Indian officials oversaw a plan to steer billions in investments to Gautam Adani’s businesses from the state life insurance agency.
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"Companies love to claim that they give users control over data collection. But offering scattered privacy settings isn’t the same as meaningful control. A 747 aircraft has lots of controls, too. But that doesn’t mean just anyone can fly it"
Simonetta Vezzoso@wavesblog.eurosky.social · 11mo ago"Atlas offers an “incognito” mode that doesn’t add to your history or memories. But like Chrome’s misleadingly named mode, it doesn’t actually hide you from other websites or even from ChatGPT itself" all over again, only worse. What are our DPAs debating, these days?
goddamn is there anything Wikipedia editors can’t do www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...
Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference
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This racist violent rhetoric from Young Republicans is disgusting. I'm sure past and present members of the International Young Democrat Union like Youth of the European People's Party and European Young Conservatives will want to condemn their US counterpart. Right? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
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The journalists are some of the heroes. Thank you for not only writing your articles, but getting them where people see them. bsky.app/profile/dlkn...
Ellison warned the audience that #AGI was coming sooner than expected. What, Blair asked, should governments be doing? “The first thing a country needs to do is unify all of their data so that it can be consumed & used by the AI model,” Ellison responded. 🙄 Even if you accept A, B does NOT follow.
