In this issue, we explore how Google’s proprietary AI chips will do little to dent Nvidia’s monopoly over the industry. We also released a new playbook to help state policymakers stop the encroachment of private equity into child care..

Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan speaks on how union-busting should be treated as an illegal monopolistic practice under antitrust law because it gives firms an unfair competitive advantage by violating workers’ rights and undermining law-abiding rivals

The Open Markets Institute alongside Community Change/Action, National Women’s Law Center, and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund released The Children Before Profits State Playbook, which equips state and local organizers, advocates, and policymakers with practical tools to address the risks posed by the growing role of private equity in U.S. child care markets.