A Scroll Down Membership Lane: February 2026’s Member Mondays
ACT 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 redefining how curated online marketplaces (COMs) operate. In practice, rules targeting COMs can require platforms to open access to distribution and payment systems in ways that limit how they manage transactions, vet integrations, or maintain security standards. This can increase small technology companies’ exposure to fraud and [...]
Always be Filing: ACT Filing Activity December 2025
Throughout the year, our policy team submits filings with government bodies worldwide to advocate for a regulatory environment that inspires and rewards innovation. From issues around regulating artificial intelligence to digital trade, our team is ACTive on a wide range of topics that could have a positive or negative impact on our small business members driving the app economy. Below is a roundup of our filings from around the globe this past month. Title: ACT | The App Association [...]
ACT (and SEPs) at the State of the Net Conference
At this year’s State of the Net Conference, our president, Morgan Reed, participated in a panel titled “Sovereign AI and the New Internet Order: Governing Intelligence Across Borders.” Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd, Morgan and his fellow panelists addressed the opportunities and challenges inherent in artificial intelligence (AI) governance. Throughout the discussion on data center ownership, risk management approaches to AI, and national cybersecurity policies, technical standards and standard-essential patents (SEPs) emerged as a key battleground for the new [...]
ACT Urges District Court to Grant Injunction in Anthropic v. U.S. Dept of War
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The strength and effectiveness of the United States military is due in no small part to its ability to leverage complex logistics with the support of private enterprise, including from small technology businesses like the members of ACT | The App Association (ACT). However, the uncertainty and confusion created by Secretary Hegseth’s designation of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence (AI) models as a “supply chain risk” and the manner in which it was declared, has created a heavy [...]