The UK government recently published its “New approach to ensure regulators and regulation support growth” policy paper, outlining next steps for reforms across the UK regulatory landscape. The policy paper aims to create a...more
The UK government recently issued its draft strategic steer to the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), in which it sets out its expectations for the CMA’s enforcement actions in relation to the government’s primary...more
The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 received Royal Assent on May 24, 2024, ushering in the most significant reforms to the UK’s competition and consumer protection laws in a generation. The Act introduces...more
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published an update paper outlining its concerns with AI foundation models (FMs). The CMA’s September 2023 initial Report on FMs set out its early views on how FMs...more
Following the UK Office of Communications’ (Ofcom’s) report on the supply of cloud services in the United Kingdom, in which it identified a concern that certain market features may negatively impact competition, Ofcom...more
The UK government introduced its Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill to Parliament for approval on April 25, 2023. The bill establishes a “pro-competition framework” for digital markets, specifically targeting a...more
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a review on May 4 to assess the potential competitive implications of rapidly emerging artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models—a type of AI technology trained...more
On September 22, the Office of Communications (Ofcom)—the United Kingdom’s communications regulator—announced and released a program of work stating its intention to examine the position of the largest providers of cloud...more