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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Spain's antitrust watchdog opens investigation into Apple's app store
The Economic Times | Jul 24, 2024
Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
The Washington Post | Jul 23, 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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Spain's antitrust watchdog opens investigation into Apple's app store
The Economic Times | Jul 24, 2024
- The CNMC, as the regulator is known, said that Apple may have imposed unequal commercial conditions on developers of mobile applications sold at its app marketplace.
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Senators demand OpenAI detail efforts to make its AI safe
The Washington Post | Jul 23, 2024
- Following a Washington Post report, five lawmakers ask the artificial intelligence start-up to describe how it will ensure its tools don’t cause harm.
- Senators demanded in a Monday letter that OpenAI turn over data about its efforts to build safe and secure artificial intelligence, following employee warnings that the company rushed through safety-testing of its latest AI model.
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Calls to End Microsoft’s Monopoly After Global Outage Wreaked Havoc Last Week
Democracy Now! | Jul 22, 2024
- The advocacy group NextGen Competition said, “For decades, Microsoft’s pursuit of a vendor lock-in strategy has prevented the public and private sectors from diversifying their IT capabilities. … Millions are feeling the consequences … of the greed and ego of one of the most egregious offenders in Big Tech.”
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Bethesda Game Studios workers form 'wall-to-wall union' at Microsoft
Game Developer | Jul 22, 2024
- The new union consists of 241 developers.
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Microsoft’s global sprawl comes under fire after historic outage
The Washington Post | Jul 20, 2024
- Officials say the incident highlights how much businesses and governments rely on the giant’s products.
- The outage “is the result of a software monopoly that has become a single point of failure for too much of the global economy,” said George Rakis, executive director of NextGen Competition, whose group advocates for more stringent antitrust enforcement.
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Watchdogs Blame Corporate Concentration for Global IT Outage
Common Dreams | Jul 19, 2024
- Digital rights advocates responded to Friday's havoc-wreaking global technology outage by sounding the alarm on the Big Tech monopolies.
- "Today's massive global Microsoft outage is the result of a software monopoly that has become a single point of failure for too much of the global economy," George Rakis, executive director of the advocacy group NextGen Competition, said in a statement.
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FTC attacks Microsoft’s post-merger Game Pass price increases
Ars Technica | Jul 19, 2024
- Regulator says move is "exactly the sort of consumer harm" it warned about.
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US senators call out Big Tech’s new approach to poaching talent, products from smaller AI startups
AP | Jul 12, 2024
- “I’m very concerned about the massive consolidation that’s going on in AI,” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, told The Associated Press.
- “The technical lingo is ‘up and down the stack’. But, in plain English, a few companies control a major portion of the market, and just concentrate — rather than on innovation — trying to buy out everybody else’s talent.”
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AI brings soaring emissions for Google and Microsoft, a major contributor to climate change
NPR | Jul 12, 2024
- Every major tech company is now working on artificial intelligence, but AI uses a ton of energy, and that spikes emissions that contribute to climate change. NPR's tech correspondent, Dara Kerr, reports.
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