“A tool never started a business; a person did.” That observation, made by Theresa Bedeau, vice chair of the board of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), during discussions at the organization’s Small Business Summit, captures an important reality about artificial intelligence (AI) and entrepreneurship. The summit, hosted in [...]
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 [...]
At the end of last year, app developers and parents notched an important win when a federal district court in Texas issued an injunction against enforcement of the problematic App Store Accountability Act (ASAA). Then, Texas’s attorney general appealed the injunction. Just last week, three judges for the Fifth [...]
California’s technology policy choices rarely stay in California. That is especially true when lawmakers target the platforms, tools, and increasingly the AI-enabled services that many startups and small businesses rely on every day. That is why AB 1776, the COMPETE Act, has taken on such importance. Even after the [...]