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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In this issue, we sound the alarm on Amazon’s rapidly growing ad business, which hit record revenues last year and should be cause for concern for U.S. antitrust enforcers.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan echos the Biden Administration’s valuable promises to break with the neoliberal antitrust and competition policy program that has one-sidedly created benefits only for large corporations.
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Open Markets and partner civil society organisations active in Europe urge the European Commission to address early concentration in the AI market.
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Reporter Austin Ahlman focuses on chip giant Intel’s ‘secure enclave’ project will take nearly 10 percent of a CHIPS Act manufacturing fund that is already stretched thin.
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Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn released a statement on the new task force on the Biden Administration’s newly announced federal task force to rein in corporations’ abuse of their pricing power.
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In this issue, we preview Google’s September trial, at which the Department of Justice will lay out its antitrust case against the tech giant for its dominance over the digital advertising, or ad tech, market.
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Senior Reporter Karina Montoya recaps the vital points of Google’s upcoming Ad Tech Trial .
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On Monday, February 26th, the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute will host a webinar bringing together leading experts to discuss approaches to determining the value of news and the future of journalism in the digital age.
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In this issue, we explore new antitrust reforms in Canada, which brings the country in line with recent antimonopoly initiatives in the U.S. and Europe.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty at Open Markets submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law written testimony in response to the subcommittee’s January 10th hearing, “Oversight of AI: the Future of Journalism.”
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CJL Director Dr. Courtney Radsch highlights Big Tech’s celebrations for AI, and how it’s time to demand accountability for the harms tech has caused before they wreak further havoc.
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In this issue, we identify the real cause behind this year’s recent wave of layoffs and shutdown in journalism, which is the monopoly power of Google and Facebook.
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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 Europe Director Max von Thun released a statement regarding Amazon’s announcement it will no longer seek to acquire home robotics firm, iRobot.
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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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