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Report - Utilities Are Blocking Virtual Power Plants, Driving Up Costs and Undermining Grid Reliability
Press Releases, Reports & White Papers
Report - Utilities Are Blocking Virtual Power Plants, Driving Up Costs and Undermining Grid Reliability
Press Releases, Reports & White Papers

The Open Markets Institute and Mission:data Coalition published a joint report, “Fair and Open Markets for Virtual Power Plants," on how investor-owned utilities are stifling the growth of virtual power plants (VPPs) and denying customers more affordable and reliable electricity.

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Over 70 Public Interest Orgs Urge European Commission to Reject Google’s AdTech Remedies
Testimony & Comment Letters, Press Releases
Over 70 Public Interest Orgs Urge European Commission to Reject Google’s AdTech Remedies
Testimony & Comment Letters, Press Releases

Open Markets Institute helped craft a letter with more than 70 press freedom organisations, businesses, experts, and think tanks urging the European Commission to reject Google’s proposed remedies in the adtech antitrust case.

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The European Commission Launches Aggressive Enforcement Actions to Protect AI Competition and Democracy
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The European Commission Launches Aggressive Enforcement Actions to Protect AI Competition and Democracy
Statements, Press Releases

Europe director Max von Thun spotlights the EU’s new antitrust investigations into Google and Meta mark a crucial step toward preventing Big Tech from using its platform power to dominate AI, exploit creators, and undermine competition and democratic access to information.

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Book: Chains of Command - The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy
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Book: Chains of Command - The Rise and Cruel Reign of the Franchise Economy
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research • policy • advocacy

Shining a light on monopoly power and its dangers to democracy.

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Project Syndicate - Europe’s Tech Firms Need Regulation to Grow
Max von Thun
Project Syndicate - Europe’s Tech Firms Need Regulation to Grow
Max von Thun

Europe director Max von Thun argues that Europe’s response to Trump-era pressure on digital regulation must combine tough enforcement against Big Tech with major investment in homegrown technology, warning that efforts to weaken landmark laws like the AI Act and GDPR threaten European sovereignty and democratic security.

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Max von Thun
The New Republic - How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal
Open Markets
The New Republic - How to Lower Energy Costs: Break Up the Electrical-Grid Cabal
Open Markets

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan argues that breaking up the control seven obscure regional transmission organizations exercise over huge parts of the country’s electrical grid would help lower exploding electricity costs.

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Open Markets
The American Prospect - Key Nebraska House Primary Features an Establishment Progressive and an Outsider Moderate
Austin Ahlman
The American Prospect - Key Nebraska House Primary Features an Establishment Progressive and an Outsider Moderate
Austin Ahlman

Reporter Austin Ahlman writes on profiling the Democratic candidates in a competitive race for Nebraska’s Second Congressional District.

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The Corner Newsletter: Europe Retreats from Cornerstone Carbon Pricing Policy (December 2, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Europe Retreats from Cornerstone Carbon Pricing Policy (December 2, 2025)

In this issue, we take a closer look at whether Trump tariff policies are the only reason Europe might moderate a key carbon pricing mechanism, which lies at the heart of its climate change policy.

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The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: Trump’s Risky Port Deal (November, 18, 2025)

In this issue, we explore how a deal by shipping giant MSC and BlackRock to buy dozens of port terminals from a Hong Kong-based operator will concentrate international trade in the hands of a single foreign corporation and threaten national security, despite the U.S. asset manager’s involvement.

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The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Op-ed with Alvaro Bedoya and Anthropic’s Author Deal (November 4th, 2025)
The Corner Newsletter: OMI’s Op-ed with Alvaro Bedoya and Anthropic’s Author Deal (November 4th, 2025)

In this issue, we conclude that Anthropic’s $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors whose pirated works were used to train its AI model will fail to deter the AI industry’s abusive practices.

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI
Innovation beyond Big Tech
Innovation beyond Big Tech
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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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What They’re Saying

Testimonials

“A tiny nonprofit that’s becoming a lightning rod for growing anger and frustration with Big Tech in America.”

-Quartz

“Open Markets is doing revolutionary and essential work when monopoly looms over American life.”

- VICE

“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].”

- Vox

“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.”

- The New York Times

 

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