Antitrust

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A person signing a contract with a ballpoint pen.
The Long View

The Deal Was Structured to Avoid a Filing. The Filing Is Now the Investigation.

The Justice Department has issued Nvidia a formal demand for information over its licensing arrangement with Groq, in which Groq's chief executive and chief operating officer moved across. The question is whether a licence plus a mass talent transfer is an acquisition that should have been reported. It is the first formal test of a structure the whole industry has been using.

The Hipolito F. Garcia Federal Building and United States Courthouse in San Antonio, TX.
Explainer

Google Keeps the Auction and Gets a Referee Instead

A federal judge declined to make Google sell the ad exchange she had already found it used to monopolise the market. The remedies are behavioural — open the bids, drop the pricing rules, end first and last look. Every one of them is a rule that somebody has to keep watching.