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Report - No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts
Reports & White Papers
Report - No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts
Reports & White Papers

Open Markets Institute fellow Matthew Scherer, publishes a thought-provoking report warning that the artificial intelligence boom is increasingly showing the hallmarks of a dangerous speculative bubble. The report urges policymakers to prepare now to resist future demands to bail out major tech companies if the market collapses.

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Webinar - License, Please: Mapping the Road Ahead for AI Licensing
Events
Webinar - License, Please: Mapping the Road Ahead for AI Licensing
Events

Join the News/Media Alliance and the Center for Media and Digital Governance at Open Markets Institute for a conversation about the past, present, and future of AI content licensing. Armed with breaking analysis from two freshly released CMDG reports on the AI content marketplace, experts from these two organizations will lay out the state of the market today and how it can, and must, evolve to serve publishers of all sizes. From policy proposals to voluntary collective licensing, they'll discuss the most promising solutions to the many challenges facing media entities, and where the industry should go from here.

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Joint White Paper Plots Sustainable Path for AI, Cloudflare, and the Future of Independent Journalism
Reports & White Papers, Press Releases
Joint White Paper Plots Sustainable Path for AI, Cloudflare, and the Future of Independent Journalism
Reports & White Papers, Press Releases

The Center for Journalism and Liberty (CJL) at the Open Markets Institute today welcomed the launch of the Washington Monthly Institute with the release of a joint white paper, “AI and the Future of Independent Journalism: The Promise and Peril of Privately Controlled Data Markets for Media Content.” 

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The Corner Newsletter: A Bill to Prevent Corrupt Antitrust Settlements & A New Report on Emerging AI Content Licensing Market
Newsletters
The Corner Newsletter: A Bill to Prevent Corrupt Antitrust Settlements & A New Report on Emerging AI Content Licensing Market
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In this issue, we explore Sen. Klobuchar’s bill to bolster the Tunney Act following a series of weak antitrust settlements that were driven by President Trump’s cozy relationships with corporations.

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Tech Policy Press - How the UK Retreated on Cloud and Called Its Local Media Band-Aid a Plan
Open Markets
Tech Policy Press - How the UK Retreated on Cloud and Called Its Local Media Band-Aid a Plan
Open Markets

Open Markets Institute Center for Journalism and Liberty director Courtney Radsch argued that the UK failed to meaningfully address the dominance of hyperscale cloud providers, criticizing regulators for relying on voluntary commitments rather than structural remedies despite clear evidence of concentrated market power.

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Financial Times - Can Europe Make a Difference?
Max von Thun
Financial Times - Can Europe Make a Difference?
Max von Thun

Open Markets Europe director Max von Thun argued in this co-written article that Europe has an opportunity to counter concentrated tech power and assert global economic leadership by aligning digital markets with democratic values and deeper economic integration

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Max von Thun
Financial Times - Iran war has exposed US fragility at sea
Open Markets
Financial Times - Iran war has exposed US fragility at sea
Open Markets

Transportation analyst Arnav Rao argues that repeated global supply chain shocks now intensified by maritime disruptions expose the failure of U.S. policy to balance efficiency with resilience, underscoring the need for long-term public investment and antimonopoly industrial strategy in shipbuilding.

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The Corner Newsletter: A Bill to Prevent Corrupt Antitrust Settlements & A New Report on Emerging AI Content Licensing Market
The Corner Newsletter: A Bill to Prevent Corrupt Antitrust Settlements & A New Report on Emerging AI Content Licensing Market

In this issue, we explore Sen. Klobuchar’s bill to bolster the Tunney Act following a series of weak antitrust settlements that were driven by President Trump’s cozy relationships with corporations.

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The Corner Newsletter: Huge Ticketmaster Win, Callaci’s Book Launch, and OMI Europe Expansion
The Corner Newsletter: Huge Ticketmaster Win, Callaci’s Book Launch, and OMI Europe Expansion

In this issue, we explore how last week’s jury verdict against Ticketmaster marks a win for both democracy and for consumers.

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The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s H1-B Policy Promotes Monopoly & Sen. Murphy Embraces OMI Strategy on Pricing Law (April 7th, 2026)
The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s H1-B Policy Promotes Monopoly & Sen. Murphy Embraces OMI Strategy on Pricing Law (April 7th, 2026)

In this issue, we explore how the Administration’s new H1-B visa policy favors dominant tech monopolies and how Sen. Murphy’s Fair Prices Act favor’s free enterprise

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Webinar - License, Please: Mapping the Road Ahead for AI Licensing
Webinar - License, Please: Mapping the Road Ahead for AI Licensing
BOOK LAUNCH - 'Chains of Command'
BOOK LAUNCH - 'Chains of Command'
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More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
More Perfect Union - How One Mega Merger Could Raise Prices On Everything
IBA - Protecting democracy
IBA - Protecting democracy
 

EXCLUSIVE REPORT

Stopping big tech
from becoming big ai

With AI rapidly becoming a cornerstone of the global economy, our report with Mozilla warns that society stands at a critical crossroads: One path leads to a future where AI is controlled by a small number of powerful corporations, threatening innovation, consumer privacy, individual liberty and democracy. The other path, the report advocates, leads to a diverse and competitive market where AI is developed by a wide range of participants – public, private, and non-profit – and serves the broader public interest. 

 
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“The Open Markets group led by Lynn contains many of the most respected voices in an increasingly prominent discussion about technology and telecom monopolies, and its findings about corporate consolidation and monopolistic power have been extremely influential in turning antitrust into an important policy issue.”

- New York Magazine

“There have been few think tank teams as effective as Barry Lynn’s [and the Open Market Institute’s].”

- The Atlantic

“The whole idea of a think tank is to cultivate ideas that have an actual impact on The Debate. Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute] has done that better than anyone.”

- Chris Hayes, MSNBC

“The past couple of years have seen a resurgence of political interest in antitrust policy, which is increasingly seen as a potential solution to America’s current dilemma of high corporate profits and slow economic growth…It’s fair to say that the primary intellectual mover behind all of this has been Barry Lynn [and the Open Markets Institute].”

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“It's difficult to overstate Mr. Lynn’s [and Open Market Institute’s] influence in raising concerns about the market dominance of Google, as well as other tech companies such as Amazon and Facebook.”

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