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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Industrial 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.
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Open 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
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Our brief argues that AI giants are breaking copyright law to undermine journalism and gain an unfair advantage over competitors that follow the rules.
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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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he 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.
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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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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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CMDG 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.
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Open 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.
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In 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.
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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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Transportation policy analyst Arnav Rao warned on the Powering America Podcast that the proposed UP-NS merger would consolidate an already-concentrated industry and amplify monopoly pricing power rather than improve efficiency. Rao argued that railroads have used market dominance to raise prices faster than inflation, driving shippers to trucks.
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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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