Todd Davies

I got the chance to appear on the The DMA Agora podcast hosted by Alba Ribera Martínez where we discussed Google's AI Overview feature in Google Search.

The online search market has been remarkably stable for the past two decades, dominated by Google and its ten blue links.

Every year, the competition law focused legal publisher Concurrences runs the Antitrust Writing Awards, which seek to highlight scholarship from across the discipline across a variety of categories.

I got the chance to appear on the Our Curious Amalgam podcast by the American Bar Association's Antitrust Law group.

This is a description of the tools I used to make this website.

I appeared on a "Walk and Talk" video with the University of Manchester, showing what graduates of the B.Sc Computer Science programme go on to do in their careers.

Digital industries are a major focus of competition regulators, especially since the emergence of sector-specific legislation like the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA).

As previously covered on this blog, Meta recently decided to integrate its AI assistant (Meta AI) into its WhatsApp platform, introducing the ability to chat to Meta AI at various points within the WhatsApp app.

Given the creeping complexity of cases, expanding evidence bases, and the ever present threat (or reality) of budget cuts, competition authorities around the world are on the lookout for ways to streamline their enforcement activities.

I'm featured on the Shaping Competition in the Digital Age podcast (Spotify link) with Anush Ganesh and Kena Zheng.

Originally published on ProMarket, along with Aline Blankertz, Justine Haekens and Nicholas Shaxson.

On May 20th 2025, the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that they had agreed on a competition cooperation agreement (the Agreement).

In March 2025, Meta rolled out its AI assistant in Europe, which is accessible through its WhatsApp Messenger and will soon be available on Instagram and Facebook Messenger, too.

Originally published on the EU Law Enforcement Blog.

Competition law, given its history and potential as a tool of anti-domination, is a natural fit to protect and revitalise democracy in Europe from the threats posed by excessive concentrations of private power.

The UK’s withdrawal from the European Union put European competition policy in a somewhat awkward state.

Originally published on the Comment Central.