Protecting Competition in New and Emerging Technologies
Big Tech companies are expanding their market dominance. It's past time that regulators scrutinized these monopolies!
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Trump’s Antitrust Trio Heralds Big-Tech Crackdown to Continue
Bloomberg | Dec 12, 2024
Trump Picks Andrew Ferguson to Lead Federal Trade Commission
The New York Times | Dec 10, 2024
It’s time to stop the monopolization of generative AI.
Big Tech’s Takeover of Generative AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and others limits competition, jeopardizes consumer rights, privacy, and ethical AI advancement.
Our Mission
Support a robust and competitive technology ecosystem by opposing anti-competitive business practices and promoting the need for greater industry accountability.
Specifically, we oppose consolidation in the industry that undermines worker protections and employer accountability, threatens data privacy and security, encourages market concentration, and limits consumer choice.
About NextGen Competition
George Rakis
Executive Director
George Rakis is a long-time veteran of national politics and progressive advocacy. He has worked with environmental groups as Director of the Climate Action Campaign, the labor movement, and electoral politics.
As executive director, he's working to support a robust and competitive technology ecosystem that opposes anti-competitive business practices that undermine worker protections, threaten data privacy, and limit consumer choice.
Ending Bad Business Practices
Our work focuses on protecting consumers and employees while holding Big Tech accountable by shining a light on business practices that:
Violate consumer privacy
Limit consumer choice through industry consolidation
Hinder a worker’s ability to organize
Encourage and enable worker harassment
Empower dictators and despots
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Trump’s Antitrust Trio Heralds Big-Tech Crackdown to Continue
Bloomberg | Dec 12, 2024
- President-elect Donald Trump’s antitrust picks are likely to take a hard-line on the tech giants, and a harder line on corporate consolidation than the average Republican.
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Trump Picks Andrew Ferguson to Lead Federal Trade Commission
The New York Times | Dec 10, 2024
- Mr. Ferguson, a current Republican member of the agency, will replace Lina Khan, who had aggressively challenged mergers and the power of the biggest tech companies.
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Biden Administration Sprints to Tie Up Tech Loose Ends
The New York Times | Dec 10, 2024
- Regulators are working around the clock to cement four years of tech policy ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald J. Trump.
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Google Asks FTC to Kill Microsoft’s Exclusive Cloud Deal with OpenAI
The Information | Dec 10, 2024
- Google recently asked the U.S. government to break up Microsoft’s exclusive agreement to host OpenAI’s technology on its cloud servers, according to a person who has been directly involved in the effort. The conversation took place after the Federal Trade Commission, one of the primary federal antitrust enforcement agencies, asked Google about Microsoft’s business practices as part of a broader investigation, this person said.
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Nvidia Faces Antitrust Investigation in China
The New York Times | Dec 09, 2024
- The move by Chinese regulators came a week after the Biden administration expanded curbs on the sale of advanced U.S. technology to China.
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Will Europe ease up on big tech?
The Economist | Dec 05, 2024
- The clash between Silicon Valley and Brussels enters a new phase
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Microsoft and Google are fighting over the future of Xbox
The Verge | Dec 05, 2024
- A legal battle could sway Microsoft’s mobile Xbox plans.
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Trump to Nominate Gail Slater to Lead Justice Department’s Antitrust Efforts
The New York Times | Dec 04, 2024
- If confirmed as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division, she would inherit lawsuits to break up Google’s search monopoly and ad tech dominance, as well as a case accusing Apple of making it hard for consumers to switch software and hardware.
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Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit
TechCrunch | Nov 30, 2024
- Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior.
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