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Thibault Schrepel
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Associate Prof VU Amsterdam • Faculty Affiliate Stanford • Into Running 🏃🏻
#antitrust #AI #complexityscience #digitalmarkets #blockchain
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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Dec 28
My rule for interactions on BlueSky (and elsewhere) is simple: I always assume it’s my interlocutor’s birthday. This means my messages are sent with kindness and compassion.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 2h
Boom.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 1d
Mario Draghi is right to worry about the #AIAct, but wrong about the cure. A pause won’t fix the EU AI Act. The problem isn’t speed; it’s rigidity. www.theregreview.org/2025/11/03/s...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 3d
Big crush on Barcelona. See you soon!

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 4d
What’s the link between Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman and antitrust policy in AI? Answer in 1h www.youtube.com/live/kLs9HpA...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 6d
Congratulations to the Conseil de la concurrence 🇲🇦 for such a great event. African and Arab countries are coming together and taking leadership on many fronts.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 11d
Pictures? :)

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 14d
For anyone reading this, I can only recommend running. It’s a humbling form of inquiry. Happy to exchange thoughts or experiences with anyone who wants to get started.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 14d
As an academic, I also value the clarity of this experience. Progress can be measured week after week, and the result, whatever it is, belongs entirely to the runner. No one can alter it, one way or the other. That simplicity carries its own form of truth.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 14d
In fact, fellow runners pull you forward when every part of you wants to stop. In that sense, the marathon shows how progress depends as much on shared pace as on individual drive.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 14d
This may seem unrelated to competition law or academic work. It is not. At least not for me. The marathon is not a race against others, but against one’s own limits and... expectations.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 14d
Last Sunday, I ran the Frankfurt Marathon and was fortunate to come in just under three hours. A short thread.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 15d
Au plaisir d’un run à Londres !

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 15d
Bravo !! Ce vent… j’ai souffert !

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 18d
Off to Frankfurt for the marathon this weekend. I ran 785 km in the past two months or so. Time to enjoy the race.

As an academic, I love that running’s outcome isn’t decided by others. It’s pure merit, yet profoundly human, because running together is what gets you there.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 18d
Europe’s pursuit of digital sovereignty will, paradoxically, ensure dependency. We spend without the means to match our ambitions, and in the meantime ignore the partnerships that could keep us in the game. The result? We’ll import what others built, without our input.
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 20d
EU’s AI Continent: powered on.

We are accelerating European AI development with the launch of six new AI Factories in 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 ↓
A map of Europe shows the distribution of AI Factories and AI Factory Antennas across the continent, along with countries participating in the EuroHPC and AIF Partner Countries. Legend: Existing AI Factories (open circle): Located in Spain (1HealthAI), France (L-AIF, AI2F), Italy (IT4LIA), Germany (SLAIF, HammerHAI), Poland (CZAI), Czechia (AT-AI), Romania (RO AI), and Greece (Pharos). New AI Factories (dark blue circle): Located in the Netherlands (NLAIF), Denmark (JAIF), Sweden (MIMER), Lithuania (LitAI), Latvia (PIAST AI), and Bulgaria (BRAIN++). New AI Factories Antennas (teal circle with a dot): Located in Luxembourg (Gaia AI). Remaining EuroHPC Participating States (purple): Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus. AIF Partner Countries (yellow): Norway, Finland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and others in Southeast Europe and North Africa, extending eastwards. The map shows AI Factories or Antennas within the borders of many EU member states, including Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. The AIF Partner Countries, like Norway, Finland, and Sweden, are highlighted in yellow.

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · 20d
EU’s AI Continent: powered on.

We are accelerating European AI development with the launch of six new AI Factories in 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇳🇱 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 ↓
A map of Europe shows the distribution of AI Factories and AI Factory Antennas across the continent, along with countries participating in the EuroHPC and AIF Partner Countries. Legend: Existing AI Factories (open circle): Located in Spain (1HealthAI), France (L-AIF, AI2F), Italy (IT4LIA), Germany (SLAIF, HammerHAI), Poland (CZAI), Czechia (AT-AI), Romania (RO AI), and Greece (Pharos). New AI Factories (dark blue circle): Located in the Netherlands (NLAIF), Denmark (JAIF), Sweden (MIMER), Lithuania (LitAI), Latvia (PIAST AI), and Bulgaria (BRAIN++). New AI Factories Antennas (teal circle with a dot): Located in Luxembourg (Gaia AI). Remaining EuroHPC Participating States (purple): Estonia, Ireland, Portugal, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia, Malta, Cyprus. AIF Partner Countries (yellow): Norway, Finland, Iceland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and others in Southeast Europe and North Africa, extending eastwards. The map shows AI Factories or Antennas within the borders of many EU member states, including Spain, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Sweden, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. The AIF Partner Countries, like Norway, Finland, and Sweden, are highlighted in yellow.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 22d
#Democracy runs on opinion.
#Futarchy runs on beliefs.
Robin Hanson joins me on Scaling Theory to discuss why governance might often need to run on market logic.
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6UFN...
• YouTube: youtu.be/tXc9rukqZ4s?...
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/s...

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CodeX Stanford @codexstanford.bsky.social · 26d
The EU's "future-proof" AI regulation is a fantasy. AI evolves through emergent properties—GPT-1 to GPT-4 was metamorphosis, not iteration. We need future-responsive regulation, not monuments By @profschrepel.bsky.social at @networklawreview.bsky.social
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The Future-Proof Fantasy of AI Regulation - Network Law Review
The EU’s quest for “future-proof” AI regulation is a fantasy. AI evolves through emergent properties that defy prediction, yet Brussels continues to draft rules with an industrial, linear mindset. The...
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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 26d
Happening today!
Search for "Annual Conference on European Competition Law, 16–17 October 2025" to register. I’ll argue that recent Art. 102 cases and the DMA now fully overlap, which turns complementarity into an echo chamber. 🌀

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 27d
Despite repeated calls for transparency, the EC gives little detail on how it handles contributions. It fails to explain why ideas appearing in multiple submissions are dismissed, and instead (often) cites the volume of contributions to justify one-sided proposals. We can (and should!) do better.
ec.europa.eu European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Oct 11
We have launched a public consultation on draft guidelines on the intersection of the Digital Markets Act and GDPR.

We want to hear your views on the guidelines to improve legal clarity for businesses and ensure coherent enforcement.

📅 Feedback open until 4 Dec 2025

→ link.europa.eu/gbmdVY
The image shows a circle of white stars (similar to the EU flag), with four stars replaced by yellow icons representing digital concepts: chat bubbles, a security shield, a breaking smartphone, and an unlocked padlock. The text reads: "Digital Markets Act meets GDPR: have your say."

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 28d
You’d think innovation plays a central role in digital antitrust cases. Well, well, well… papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 28d
Timing coincidence? The European Commission is just fining Chloé (among others), the fashion house founded by Philippe Aghion’s mother.

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · 29d
Many congratulations to these three brilliant economists! I’m especially thrilled to see Philippe Aghion among them. Philippe wrote the preface to my PhD thesis… a gentle reminder that correlation does not imply causation 😅

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Oct 11
We have launched a public consultation on draft guidelines on the intersection of the Digital Markets Act and GDPR.

We want to hear your views on the guidelines to improve legal clarity for businesses and ensure coherent enforcement.

📅 Feedback open until 4 Dec 2025

→ link.europa.eu/gbmdVY
The image shows a circle of white stars (similar to the EU flag), with four stars replaced by yellow icons representing digital concepts: chat bubbles, a security shield, a breaking smartphone, and an unlocked padlock. The text reads: "Digital Markets Act meets GDPR: have your say."

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’ve just updated this database compiling all initiatives taken by antitrust agencies on generative AI www.networklawreview.org/antitrust-ge... I hope it proves useful to some of you.

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Oct 7
New Antitrust Antidote: Apple case moves ahead; per se tying theory on Hermès doesn’t fly; alleged algorithmic/benchmarking collusion suits stumble on pleadings... All you need to know about recent U.S. antitrust cases is here: www.networklawreview.org/antidote-7/

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Oct 6
In this piece for Times Higher Education, I suggest a few simple experiments that any professor can run to see how GenAI impacts their own students. I hope this proves useful to some of you. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-t...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Oct 2
www.nber.org/papers/w34194
Interesting one. Market power persistence isn’t about lax antitrust enforcement. It’s the technology + learning dynamics that give certain cohorts lasting dominance.

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Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Oct 1
Here are @profschrepel.bsky.social’s monthly reading suggestions: DMA & EU users, killer acquisitions, auditable AI, AI Act political economy, GenAI & democracy, AI agents in econ, adaptive regulation + a special issue on law, tech & econ of AI: www.networklawreview.org/september-20...

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Thibault Schrepel @profschrepel.bsky.social · Oct 1
New essay out.

The AI Act multiplies review clauses, delegated acts, monitoring obligations. But it lacks true adaptive capacity. In complexity science terms, the EU has built “sensors without reflexes.”

I hope this resonates with colleagues working on AI governance.
networklawreview.bsky.social Network Law Review @networklawreview.bsky.social · Oct 1
The EU says its AI rules are “future proof.” They’re not, @profschrepel.bsky.social argues. Without adaptive regulation (modular rules, real-time monitoring, plural triggers, institutional memory) Brussels (and others!) will always be behind the curve. www.networklawreview.org/schrepel-fut...