Since the public release of the ChatGPT chatbot (created by OpenAI) in November 2022, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken centre stage in public and economic debate.

On 27 January 2022, the Autorité de la concurrence announced that it had started proceedings ex-officio to issue a market study on competition conditions in the cloud computing sector. The Autorité is today issuing its final opinion, after publishing an interim document in the summer of 2022 and consulting all the stakeholders.

The cloud is one of the technological developments that is central to the digitisation of the economy. It is a source of productivity gains for companies and value creation for the economy.

On 13 January 2020, the Autorité started proceedings ex officio to assess the competitive situation in the sector of new technologies applied to financial activities and, more specifically, to payment activities. Faced with significant changes in the payments sector, characterised in particular by the arrival of large digital platforms, the Autorité notes several watch points.

Data are currently everywhere. The development of the Internet, the enthusiasm surrounding social networks and online commerce, and increasing bandwidth allow circulation of vast quantities of data at nearly instantaneous speeds. In this context, the Autorité de la concurrence has examined the online advertising sector, the growth of which is mainly due to commercial use of data, by issuing an opinion.