Right now, policymakers around the world are setting their 2026 agendas on the same core questions: how to protect consumers online, how to govern AI responsibly without stifling innovation, how to strengthen privacy and security, and how to drive economic growth. From Brussels to London to Washington, across the [...]
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – The United Kingdom has a vibrant and diverse startup and small tech ecosystem that drives significant economic output and supports more than 400,000 jobs. The next step is ensuring these businesses can scale, not just start. For UK startups, regulation and investment are closely linked. [...]
ACT’s members drive the innovation that powers our digital world. Each month, through our Member Monday series, we showcase these trailblazing small businesses and their cutting-edge achievements. Around the world, governments are advancing age verification and online safety requirements with the goal of protecting young users online. Unfortunately, these [...]
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) comments on the impact for startups and small businesses in yesterday’s announcement from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on business software and cloud services. ‘The decision by CMA not to designate Microsoft and AWS cloud services as having strategic [...]
Mike Griffin doesn’t do hype cycles. He’s a UK-based developer with decades of experience working across EU and UK innovation and research programs. He’s spent enough time in the ecosystem to recognise the difference between rules that enable trust and scale and those that create confusion. As the founder [...]