OMI Europe director Max von Thun was quoted on Europe’s failure to check monopolization of the emerging AI space by Big Tech monopolies, illustrated by the partnership between Microsoft and Paris-based Mistral AI.ok.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch shines a light on the struggles journalism is facing as AI develops further.
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CJL Director Courtney Radsch & Senior Reporter Karina Montoya delve into the infrastructural role of cloud in watchdog journalism to illustrate how market concentration in cloud services can exacerbate existing harms by dominant digital platforms on news media sustainability. They argue that the design of policies seeking to redress potential harms to competition in cloud services should consider its effects in public interest journalism.
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Open Markets Institute’s executive director Barry Lynn called for regulators to focus on harms to democracy and human liberty.
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Open Markets worked with civil society groups from Europe, the UK and the US to submit details and recommendations to the European Commission regarding Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI, as the Commission investigates the partnership on fair competition grounds.
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Director of Europe and Transatlantic Partnerships Max von Thun urges Brussels to use its existing powers under competition law and the Digital Markets Act to challenge Big Tech’s growing influence over AI in this article.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn released the following statement regarding the news that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will investigate partnerships between dominant tech giants and artificial intelligence companies, including Microsoft and OpenAI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Google and Anthropic.
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Reuters cited the Open Markets-led amicus brief in support of DC’s case against Amazon’s illegal pricing practices in DC v Amazon, as the DC Attorney General works to revive the case.
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Tech Policy Press noted the publication of our report on AI and monopoly power in its November 2023 Tech Policy Roundup.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights the internal developments of OpenAI and the confrontations between the firm and Microsoft’s poaching practices.
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Tech Policy Press Editor and CEO Justin Hendrix covered our AI event - and the panel of artists, journalists, and creators he moderated - in his latest piece for Tech Policy Press.
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The Open Markets Institute and the AI Now Institute event on November 15 in Washington.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism and Liberty publish a report how just a handful of Big Tech companies – by exploiting existing monopoly power and aggressively co-opting other actors – have already positioned themselves to control the future of artificial intelligence and magnify many of the worst problems of the digital age.
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch participates in a piece discussing the White House’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence.
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Open Markets submits a public comment to the U.S. Copyright Office on copyright and artificial intelligence.
The Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement on the Biden Administration’s newly-announced executive order on artificial intelligence (AI).
The New York Times' David Streitfeld writes that big tech’s power has regulators and scholars, such as those of Open Markets, trying to reverse years of established doctrine. He also describes how anti-monopoly reformers are in ascendance and speaks with Open Markets' Executive Director Barry Lynn about anti-monopoly law and its history.
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