February 25, 2026
US Steps Up Diplomatic Pressure on Countries That Limit Cross-Border...
The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby foreign governments against efforts to regulate how U.S. technology companies handle foreign users’ data. That’s according to an internal diplomatic cable...
February 25, 2026
AI Disruption Debate Roils Markets and Refocuses Risk
While everyone is worried about AI’s ability to write everything from term papers to publication-ready journalism, it was a human writing about AI that rocked the markets. But as with...
February 25, 2026
Wayve Raises $1.2 Billion and Preps London Robotaxi Launch
Wayve, a United Kingdom-based self-driving vehicle startup, is now valued at $8.6 billion, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 25) press release. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock...
February 23, 2026
Uber Debuts New Services for Autonomous Vehicle Partners
Uber has debuted Autonomous Solutions, a suite of services and capabilities designed for autonomous vehicles. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access...
February 19, 2026
Market Power and Governance Power: New Tools for Antitrust Enforcement...
This Article advances a new framework for digital-age antitrust enforcement by integrating measures of market concentration (such as the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index) with novel metrics of governance concentration (the Nakamoto coefficient...
February 19, 2026
Antitrust & Gig Workers: Labor Exemption As Protection
This article views the labor exemption to the antitrust laws as protection for gig workers by empowering them to collectively bargain to improve their welfare without triggering antitrust liability. The...
February 19, 2026
Beyond Non Competes: Platform Tethered Non Circumvention Clauses for Digital...
This paper examines the use of non-circumvention clauses as a viable alternative to traditional restrictive covenants for digital platforms in the gig economy. Amid increasing federal and state regulatory scrutiny...
February 19, 2026
Antitrust Observations in the Gig Economy
The rapid expansion of the gig economy has resulted in many new considerations for stakeholders. Gig economy companies have opened up new venues for independent contractors to enter competitive markets...
February 19, 2026
How Antitrust Can Uplift Workers in the Gig Economy
Gig economy companies, like Uber and DoorDash, are seeing record profits. However, workers in the gig economy have seen wage growth stalled or even decrease over the past five years....
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