At CES 2025, an insightful panel featuring Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioners Rebecca Slaughter and Melissa Holyoak, along with former FTC Commissioners Christine Wilson and Julie Brill, tackled the evolving regulatory landscape for artificial intelligence (AI). They examined the FTC’s role in AI oversight, particularly through the unfair and [...]
The AI industry is often called “fast-moving,” but rarely has it moved as fast as it did last week. Over the previous weekend, Chinese startup DeepSeek released an AI assistant app powered by its new R1 model that quickly overtook ChatGPT atop the App Store charts. Thanks to efficiencies [...]
Authors both in support of and opposed to outgoing Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan’s aggressive antitrust agenda often liken her pursuit of Amazon to Captain Ahab’s obsession with the infamous white whale in Moby Dick. For those who have not followed the saga, it may seem like [...]
Late last year, we observed that the Department of Justice’s (DoJ’s) proposed remedies in its lawsuit targeting Google search went much further than necessary. We pointed out that if adopted by the Court, they would amount to a significant intervention into a number of markets that ACT | The [...]
After a busy 2024 filled with global events and member activations, ACT | The App Association kicked off 2025 at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas - one of the largest trade shows for technology and startups in the world. Recognizing the global reach of events like [...]