Our latest report showing how AI Agents could concentrate market and political power in a few companies, the risk to democracy and markets, and policy recommendations.
Read MoreCMDG Director Courtney Radsch argues that the new Congress should treat Big Tech accountability, AI governance, media plurality, and press freedom as part of the same broader challenge of concentrated corporate power.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how Lula’s win in Brazil’s elections will allow Brazil to continue its leadership role in regulating Big Tech platforms.
Read MoreIndustrial Policy Manager Audrey Stienon reviews Isabella Weber’s Anti-Fascist Economics arguing that affordability should be treated as a democratic imperative and that governments need stronger tools to protect people from price shocks, concentrated corporate power, and economic insecurity.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute calls for breaking up Waymo and Google Maps, warns that unchecked robotaxi monopolies threaten public transit, local democracy, and Americans' freedom to move
Read MoreCMDG welcomed the Paris Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Meta's challenge to the French Competition Authority's interim measures on publishers’ rights.
Read MorePolicy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi joins Keldon Bester from the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project in The Globe and Mail to argue that the EU and Canada must commit to the “tech alliance” promised by Ursula von der Leyen and work together to break away from their shared dependence on American tech platforms and infrastructure.
Read Morehe Center for Media and Digital Governance at Open Markets joined a coalition letter urging the Australian government to maintain strong copyright protections for creators and journalists amid reports that officials are considering exempting AI companies from copyright obligations when training their models. CMDG warned that weakening these protections would undermine rights holders’ ability to control and negotiate compensation for the use of their work and could set a harmful international precedent.
Read MoreIn this issue, we explore how a new open-weight AI model from France’s Mistral will affect market structure. We also describe a new report by Open Markets on how the AI bubble will pop soon, and what policymakers should do.
Read MoreOur report in partnership with Americans for Financial Reform outlines vulnerabilities in the financial system and wider economy that could intensify an AI crash into the next financial crisis, and provides steps that policymakers can take to mitigate the damage and protect everyday people from bearing the costs.
Read MoreThis report with Americans for Financial Reform is an urgent warning: it details how the money pouring into AI could spiral into an economy-wide crisis and lays out recommendations for policymakers on how to keep an AI crash from devastating ordinary people’s finances.
Read MoreSenior legal analyst Daniel Hanley and AI policy lead Arnav Rao argue that AI companies do not need an antitrust exemption to coordinate on safety, and should instead use a broadly representative, government-supervised standards body that preserves competition while setting clear safeguards for frontier AI development.
Read MoreIn this issue, we detail our successful two-day antimonopoly conference in Paris on how U.S. tech corporations threaten human liberty and European democracy and sovereignty, and look at the potential dangers posed by Fox’s takeover of Roku.
Read MoreCMDG Director Courtney Radsch warns that the Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery settlement will deepen media concentration, arguing that stronger antitrust enforcement and policies curbing Big Tech’s control over information markets are needed to protect jobs, plurality, and independent journalism.
Read MoreOpen Markets Institute urges Minnesota to curb mega-dairy expansion and reform dairy markets, warning that growing consolidation is pushing family farms out of business while shifting economic, environmental, and infrastructure costs onto rural communities.
Read MoreIn a groundbreaking new legal paper, Sandeep Vaheesan argues that companies that systematically violate laws to undercut rivals are engaging in an unfair method of competition and that the FTC can and should take action. This includes Big AI copyright law violations.
Read MoreIn a comment letter to the FTC, Open Markets Institute urges the Commission to use the full extent of the law to crack down on surveillance-enabled pricing.
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