The United Kingdom is at an important moment in AI policymaking. During ACT’s Global App Economy Conference: UK in April, one question kept coming up across conversations with policymakers, regulators, and industry voices: how does the UK turn AI ambition into real deployment and growth? ACT hosted a reception [...]
Statement: From Morgan Reed, President of the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT): "ACT and our small business members welcome House negotiators' abandonment of Meta’s damaging App Store Accountability Act (ASAA) as part of the proposed bipartisan kids’ safety package. "By steering clear of ASAA, lawmakers appropriately rejected a misguided [...]
ACT’s Annual Global App Economy Conferences (GAECs) bring our startup and tech members together for three days of founder-to-founder networking and direct engagement with policymakers. GAECs are the culmination of what we do at ACT, bringing our three pillars together in one event that fosters Community, provides resources [...]
Part Two of ACT’s Two-Part Resource: The ABCs and 1-2-3s of Age Verification and Compliance Lawmakers across the United States are introducing a wave of age-verification and parental-consent laws aimed at protecting kids online. While well-intentioned, these state-by-state approaches create a confusing and costly patchwork for startups and independent [...]