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ARTICLE · 08 NOVEMBER 2026

Antitrust & Competition Technology Q3 2026 Update

The third quarter of 2026 witnessed a strategic shift in antitrust enforcement, with authorities increasingly favoring behavioral remedies and negotiated settlements over structural breakups. From Google's ad-tech case to algorithmic pricing litigation and California's expansion of monopolization laws, enforcement agencies demonstrated new approaches to regulating dominant firms while courts grappled with defining the boundaries between lawful competition and anticompetitive coordination in technology marke

United StatesAntitrust/Competition Law

The third quarter of 2026 brought a greater reliance on behavioral remedies alongside continued focus on AI development, pricing algorithms, and dominant-firm conduct. President Trump nominated Adam Candeub to lead the Department of Justice (the DOJ) Antitrust Division on July 21 after the previous head stepped down in February. Enforcement authorities demonstrated a willingness to resolve competition concerns through settlements. Those negotiated resolutions, along with recent remedies decisions in the Google monopolization cases, have highlighted the ongoing debate over the effectiveness of behavioral remedies in technology markets. 

AI development and algorithmic pricing remain central to technology-sector antitrust scrutiny. A new lawsuit challenged alleged coordination among leading AI developers to slow technological advancement. The Third Circuit revived claims challenging the use of shared pricing software, emphasizing allegations about nonpublic data and common pricing

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