Last week, the European Commission (Commission) gave shape to inchoate fears of Digital Markets Act (DMA) “mission creep,” as it issued a preliminary recommendation to designate Amazon’s and Microsoft’s cloud services as DMA “gatekeepers.” Even against a backdrop of steadfast refusals to observe its own legal restraints under DMA, [...]
A few weeks ago, I traveled to Mountain View for my first ever in-person Google I/O experience. The presentations included live demonstrations and concrete examples illustrating how updates across a wide range of Google services will meaningfully benefit small businesses and consumers. The event was more than just glitz [...]
The European Commission's ongoing implementation of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) has produced a flood of proposals threatening the very safeguards that keep digital marketplaces and operating systems secure. For ACT members, among the most alarming are measures that would gut the access management functions major operating systems rely [...]
This week we're starting a return to our official name, Association for Competitive Technology (ACT), and moving away from the unofficial moniker “the App Association” that we’ve used as shorthand to describe our membership and our work. The world is experiencing a transformative surge in technological innovation from [...]
As federal negotiators scramble to assemble a comprehensive AI legislative package—one that would ideally preempt the mounting state-by-state patchwork threatening to fragment America's AI ecosystem—there's pressure to sweeten the deal with provisions addressing children's safety online. The impulse is understandable with AI chatbots like Meta’s that are having “sensual” [...]