Protecting Competition in Current and Emerging Technologies
Working to create a fair and competitive technology ecosystem that empowers consumers, workers, and small businesses.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - March 2025
NextGen Competition | Mar 27, 2025
[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - February 2025
NextGen Competition | Feb 28, 2025
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
NextGen Competition is on a mission to create a fair and competitive technology ecosystem that empowers consumers, workers, and small businesses by supporting robust enforcement of antitrust laws and policies.
Our aim is to enable many independent technology companies to innovate, compete, and offer differentiated services, and to rectify the profound imbalance of power that allows the largest technology firms to unilaterally set terms and conditions for everyone, use our data, and capture our attention without meaningful constraints.
Priorities
NextGen Competition supports robust enforcement of antitrust laws and policies to challenge the persistent market power of the world’s largest technology players like Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft.
This dominance and power hands them an unprecedented level of control over digital technologies and online commerce. The effects of this dominance are widespread, touching every corner of the modern connected economy and information systems we rely on every day.
Our organization is focused on building an environment to support:
Competitive Search & Digital Ads Networks
Ending App Store Monopolies
A more competitive E-commerce ecosystem
Generative AI Innovation
A vibrant, connected devices and services ecosystem
About NextGen Competition
Sumit Sharma
Executive Director
Sumit Sharma is an economist, advocate, and tech policy expert. His work includes expert advisory services on competition and regulatory matters, serving as the in-house economist for a mobile operator, and the lead advocate on competition and antitrust matters for Consumer Reports. His experience includes expert witness proceedings and advising companies, regulators, and governments on strategy, policy design, competition, antitrust, and investment matters.
Sumit has worked with allies in civil society and companies supporting pro-competitive policy changes required to ensure a marketplace that works for everyone, not just the largest technology companies. As executive director, he will continue this work to ensure fairer and more competitive technology marketplaces.
George Rakis
Executive Director Emeritus
Having previously served as 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.
Aaron Alberico and Bradley Joseph Sinkaus
Communications Consultants
The communications strategy for NextGen Competition is supported by Aaron and Bradley, seasoned public affairs professionals with extensive experience in technology policy and competition issues. Together, they bring years of experience supporting advocacy campaigns, regulatory engagement, and coalition efforts on behalf of a range of clients.
Their work includes overseeing all aspects of NGC’s communications—from crafting compelling press releases and public statements to managing social media, producing newsletters, and developing messaging strategies that break through the noise.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - March 2025
NextGen Competition | Mar 27, 2025
- It’s an honor to step into the role of leading NextGen Competition and to build on the impactful work George and the organization have championed: challenging the outsized power of Big Tech. This mission is essential to ensuring citizens have greater control of our economy’s productive capacity and the flow of information that shapes their decision-making.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - February 2025
NextGen Competition | Feb 28, 2025
- Amid the chaos and rancor of the first few weeks of President Trump’s second term, one signal is clear: the unchecked monopoly power of Big Tech will continue to face serious scrutiny.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - January 2025
NextGen Competition | Jan 30, 2025
- Last February, NextGen Competition led a coalition letter supporting the Federal Trade Commission’s 6(b) inquiry into Big Tech’s growing influence over the rapidly evolving landscape of generative AI. We worried that the concentration of AI development within a small group of powerful corporations posed significant risks to consumer rights, data privacy, and the ethical development of AI.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - December 2024
NextGen Competition | Dec 19, 2024
- President Obama famously said, “Elections have consequences,” and this November’s national elections are no exception. The outcome wasn’t what any of us had hoped for, and we’re already seeing Big Tech move quickly to insulate itself by building bridges with President-elect Trump. We hope the anti-Big Tech rhetoric from the campaign trail doesn’t fizzle out.
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Lina Khan Is Big Tech's Worst Nightmare—Here's Why She Should Stick Around
Common Dreams | Dec 18, 2024
- You know you’re making an impact when you’re challenging the status quo and ruffling feathers on both sides of the aisle. Regardless of Trump's arrival, she should stay at the FTC as long as she possibly can.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - November 2024
NextGen Competition | Nov 04, 2024
- As the air is heavy with election anxiety and pundits and pollsters speculate on tomorrow’s outcome, we at NextGen are thinking about 2025 and beyond. Namely, will the next administration continue the current one’s antitrust crusade? How will the ongoing cases of the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice versus Big Tech shake out? 🤔
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - October 2024
NextGen Competition | Oct 15, 2024
- For decades, Microsoft’s relentless pursuit of vendor lock-in has stifled IT diversification in both the public and private sectors, while allowing dangerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities to persist unchecked. In September, the House Homeland Security Committee had a critical opportunity to address this issue during its hearing on July’s devastating outage, which brought airlines, government agencies, and businesses across the globe to a standstill. Unfortunately, they missed the mark.
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Congress to Shine Light on Vulnerabilities Exacerbated by Large Technology Companies
The Well News | Sep 24, 2024
- Make no mistake, the impact of July’s massive global CrowdStrike outage was the result of a software monopoly that has become a single point of failure for too much of the global economy.
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[Newsletter] Top Hat & Thimble - September 2024
NextGen Competition | Sep 12, 2024
- We extend our sincere thanks and tip our hats to the organizations that came together to co-author and co-sign a letter to the FTC supporting the Commission’s inquiry into Amazon’s “reverse acqui-hire” of Adept AI Labs Inc.
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