OpenAI’s recent announcement that developers could now build and publish apps directly inside ChatGPT became another clear sign of how quickly digital markets evolve. At its DevDay 2025 event, the company revealed a new Apps SDK that lets partners like Canva, Coursera, and Zillow create interactive apps inside ChatGPT. [...]
The recent House Judiciary Committee hearing on Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and related regulations drew intense attention in Washington and beyond. Representing small app developers and connected device makers across the United States and Europe, ACT | The App Association’s president Morgan Reed underscored how Europe’s regulatory experiments [...]
On July 17, ACT | The App Association sponsored a lively happy hour hosted by App Association member Capitol CNCT, drawing more than 150 attendees, including Hill staffers and leaders from across the tech and policy landscape. In a relaxed social atmosphere, over drinks and snacks, folks discussed how [...]
On June 12, 2025, ACT | The App Association held a standing-room-only Hill briefing, Getting AI Policy Right: A Roadmap for Innovation, Investment, and Competition, where we released our latest white paper, Antitrust at a Crossroads: Protecting Innovation in the AI Era, laying out a framework for antitrust policy [...]
America’s AI leadership wasn’t accidental. It came from businesses, small and large, solving problems using the tools available to them in a policy environment that fostered innovation. Now, with global competition heating up, Congress has a chance to reinforce that success. On May 8, 2025, the Senate Commerce Committee [...]