( May 14, 2026, 23:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Daniel Glad, acting deputy assistant attorney general for criminal enforcement at the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, said in a speech that observers should expect the Antitrust Division to keep pressing forward with a focus on use of large language models or other artificial intelligence as the hub of a pricing arrangements. "A final word to the people in this room — and on the people whom you advise. The Sherman Act applies to corporations and human beings alike. And the move from human conversations to machine-assisted ones does not change who is accountable," Glad said. The division's "investigative architecture is already built for what is coming," Glad said, citing methods of detecting unlawful conduct such as the Procurement Collusion Strike Force, as well as the Whistleblower Rewards Program and its interplay with the longstanding DOJ's leniency program. Statement follows below: ...
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