CMDG 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.
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In 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.
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CMDG welcomed the Paris Court of Appeal’s dismissal of Meta's challenge to the French Competition Authority's interim measures on publishers’ rights.
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Policy 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.
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In 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.
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Our 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.
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This 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.
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Senior 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.
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In 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.
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In 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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In this issue, we explore how IBM’s stranglehold over mainframe computing, built up over decades, offers a cautionary tale for today’s monopolies in cloud and AI technologies.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that the court’s behavioral remedies against Google’s ad tech monopoly offer some new protections for publishers and competitors, but fall short of the structural breakup needed to meaningfully dismantle Google’s market power.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses how Federal judges clearly exposed Google's illegal, anti-competitive tactics in search and ad tech, yet failed catastrophically by refusing to dismantle the company's monopolies or strip away its economic weapons.
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After finding Google guilty of illegal conduct, this decision is an embarrassing capitulation that essentially lets them determine their own punishment in exchange for a promise not to repeat the behavior.
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In a new policy brief, Giorgos Verdi, George Colville, and Dora Wierzbicka set out how Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package needs to be strengthened in order to effectively reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The Commission’s proposals contain many promising elements, but the package needs to be more ambitious, more rigorous in ensuring it does not in fact benefit existing foreign dominant actors, and more holistic in its treatment of the problem.
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In this issue, we discuss measures Europe has taken to reduce its dependence on U.S. tech corporations and mitigate the risks of technological coercion by the Trump administration.
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In a new policy brief, George Colville makes the case for urgent updates to the DMA to ensure it can meaningfully tackle cloud concentration. Without such changes, the newfound determination to break apart the cloud oligopoly is likely to make little difference, even after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were designated as gatekeepers under the DMA.
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