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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 3h
The FTC should scrutinize OpenAI and Anthropic. But an investigation announced one day after leading AI companies signed voluntary safeguards at President Trump’s behest? 🤔 @sumitecon.bsky.social responds:
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Looking for an analysis of why the Google decision ended with a whimper, not a roar? Karina Montoya has you covered in her latest for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/a-deep-dive-...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AI companies are still operating with too few guardrails, communities are still pushing back on data centers, and public resources are still being consumed to fuel the AI boom. Call it doomerism or marketing, but accountability cannot wait. 🚨 www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meta’s teen safety settlement may be great PR for Mark Zuckerberg. But is it real accountability? 🤔 @sumitecon.bsky.social argues the deal leaves major loopholes, weak safeguards, and little public transparency. Read his @techpolicypress.bsky.social latest: www.techpolicy.press/two-reasons-...
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Two Reasons Meta’s Settlement with State Attorneys General is a Win for Mark Zuckerberg
The Meta settlement is self-serving and unlikely to meet the objective of protecting teens from social media harms, writes Sumit Sharma.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: Last week, we dropped the latest Top Hat & Thimble, where we covered everything from Amazon’s monopoly power, to the FTC’s latest investigation, to midterms, data centers, and Big Tech accountability. 📋 Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - August 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, industry shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh, we do have an FTC Chair! 🤯 Haven’t heard from him in a while, but better late than never on Amazon. Now let’s see that same energy for Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Meta. 👀 www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
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FTC's Andrew Ferguson on Amazon lawsuit: Received billions in additional profit from advertisers
Andrew Ferguson, FTC chairman, joins 'The Exchange' to discuss the government body's recent lawsuit against Amazon, the harm to consumers and much more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Meta’s teen safety settlement is being sold as accountability. 🤨 @sumitecon.bsky.social argues it may be a win for Mark Zuckerberg instead: weak limits, AI loopholes, little public reporting, and a payout Meta can absorb. Read in @techpolicypress.bsky.social ⤵️ www.techpolicy.press/two-reasons-...
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Two Reasons Meta’s Settlement with State Attorneys General is a Win for Mark Zuckerberg
The Meta settlement is self-serving and unlikely to meet the objective of protecting teens from social media harms, writes Sumit Sharma.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The latest Top Hat & Thimble is out now! 📰 Amazon’s monopoly power. The FTC’s latest investigation. Midterms. Data centers. Big Tech accountability. We cover it all in our August recap. newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - August 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, industry shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The rise in Big Tech surveillance should alarm all of us. 🚨 Facial recognition and AI-powered surveillance tools are no longer hypothetical. They're already making their way into police departments and immigration agencies.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So Americans are “backwards and poor” for wanting to prioritize clean water, lower electricity bills, and strong property values? 🤯
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Google’s ad tech dominance needed structural relief. Instead, the court chose behavioral remedies that may leave Google’s conflicts intact. @sumitecon.bsky.social: publishers, advertisers, competitors, and consumers need real competition. Read his full statement: nextgencomp.tech/statements/n...
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NextGen Competition Disappointed by Court’s Decision Rejecting Structural Remedies in Google Ad Tech Case
On Wednesday, September 2, 2026, U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia rejected a breakup of Google’s ad tech business and instead approved a series of behavioral ...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Big Tech sold schools a future of better learning through more technology. Instead, what taxpayers got was dependence on a handful of giant platforms, massive public spending, and deteriorating outcomes. Classic Big Tech. 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/b...
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How Big Tech Captured American Schools
Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
When even Texas of all places jumps off the data center train, you know things are bad. 😳 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big Tech helped flood the internet with AI slop, and now it has to spend time and money trying to rein in the monster it created. Typical. 😒 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/t...
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Sick of A.I. Slop? So Are Tech Giants.
Spotify, LinkedIn and others are trying to dig out of a digital sewage heap full of low-quality content made with artificial intelligence.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
We need guardrails for Big Tech from this administration, not giveaways. Enforce antitrust. ⚖️ Protect consumers. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Fight monopolies. 🥊 Join us in the fight: nextgencomp.tech
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Microsoft loves to cast itself as the responsible Big Tech company. But its AI data center buildout is telling a very different story: soaring energy use, rising emissions, and sustainability rhetoric that looks thinner by the day. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How are hitting those climate targets going, Amazon? 🙄 Profits over the environment, every time. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/c...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Top talent leaving, internal tensions over military use, pressure to ship faster, ethical red lines getting blurrier… 😵‍💫 Turns out the AI race is even messy inside Google, the monopolist who wants everyone to think it has things under control.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Love to see @openmarkets.bsky.social holding Google’s feet to the fire. 🔥
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
ICYMI: Last week, we dropped the latest edition of Top Hat & Thimble, featuring our takes on app store distribution monopolies, Adam Candeub’s nomination, the launch of Little Tech, and more. 🧑‍💻 Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - July 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, industry shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Love this from Chris Stöcker on how standards could be Europe’s best weapon in its arsenal against Big Tech. 🏹 derspiegel.substack.com/p/standards-...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Now Big Tech is dictating trade policy? 🤯 Kudos @publiccitizen.bsky.social for uncovering yet another way Big Tech is inserting itself into the administration to benefit themselves. www.citizen.org/news/new-foi...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This right here is exactly why data centers are causing upheaval on both sides of the aisle: Deals behind closed doors. Zero transparency. Communities left in the dark about how these projects will affect their utility bills, water, land, and local control. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The latest Top Hat & Thimble is here. 📰 This month: @sumitecon.bsky.social on app store distribution monopolies, Candeub Candon't, the rise of Little Tech, and more! Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - July 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, industry shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Big Tech unleashed the AI boom first and started hiring economists to explain the fallout later. No number of economists can turn “move fast and break the labor market” into a real accountability plan. 😳 www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Why tech companies are poaching top economists
Google and others say their economic research sheds light on crucial questions, but critics argue corporate research doesn't serve the public interest.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Love this conversation between @linamkhan.bsky.social and @pkrugman.bsky.social on AI, Big Tech, and antitrust law. ⚖️ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/lina-khan-...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Call them out, @publiccitizen.bsky.social. 💯 Big Tech keeps telling us to trust them on AI while making it painfully clear they don’t know how to control what they’ve built.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Who could have predicted that sharing personal health information with, and seeking medical advice from, a chatbot that has neither a medical degree nor a human conscience could end poorly? 🤦🏻‍♂️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...
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ChatGPT Led to a Man’s Near-Fatal Health Crisis, Lawsuit Claims
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Some OpenAI employees are reportedly backing a Super PAC to push for stronger AI guardrails and take on OpenAI President Greg Brockman. When the people inside the company start organizing for accountability, maybe everyone else should pay attention. 😵‍💫
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Americans’ confidence in Big Tech has hit a record low in Gallup’s tracking. 📉 Only 20% say they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in tech giants. Maybe years of monopoly power, privacy abuses, AI chaos, and political coziness are catching up. 🤷‍♂️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
While technological sovereignty for Europe seems impossible, partial autonomy is the new goal, and it’s already underway. ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/w...
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The Quest for ‘Technological Sovereignty’ in Europe (and Why It’s So Hard)
France and Germany want to quit relying on America and China for key technology like artificial intelligence, but they’re having to choose where to do it.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Big Tech “alliances” are always arrangements of convenience. Right up until they stop being convenient. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Big Tech is running into data center resistance across the country, so now some tech giants are looking to tribal lands for their next build. They should not expect a free pass. Communities deserve transparency, accountability, and a real say. 💪🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/u...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We need guardrails for Big Tech from this administration, not giveaways. Enforce antitrust. ⚖️ Protect consumers. 🙋🏻‍♂️ Fight monopolies. 🥊 Join us in the fight: nextgencomp.tech
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Seconded, @aoc.bsky.social. Break them up. 💯 thehill.com/policy/techn...
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Sumit Sharma @sumitecon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As Gov Kathy Hochul imposes a data center moratorium in NY @nextgencompetition.bsky.social presents its first AI report card ⬇️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The latest Top Hat & Thimble is here. 📰 This month: @sumitecon.bsky.social on Big Tech and AI, Alex Bores’ anti-Big Tech run in New York, the Supreme Court’s blow to independent agencies, and more. Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - June 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, industry shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Your electricity bill and 401(k) should not be collateral damage for Big Tech’s AI bubble. 🙅‍♂️ In @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @sumitecon.bsky.social explains how cloud-for-equity deals, crossholdings, and risky AI bets are distorting markets, and why antitrust enforcement can help let the air out.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
It appears that not only do Americans see Big Tech as more of a threat than Big Government, but they also don’t believe a word that comes out of tech CEOs’ mouths: like paying for data centers, for example. Full survey results from @consumerreports.org: advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_releas...
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Consumer Reports: New Survey finds Americans are Skeptical of Big Tech’s Pledge to Pay for All AI Data Center Energy Costs - CR Advocacy
Washington, DC –  A Consumer Reports nationally representative survey of 2,082 US adults in May 2026 found that a large majority of Americans are skeptical…
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Violence is never the answer. But treating communities worried about data centers, AI, and Big Tech’s power as security threats is wrong. Want to reduce anti-tech extremism? Strengthen guardrails, boost transparency, and demand accountability. 💯 www.techpolicy.press/to-mitigate-...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Big Tech’s AI money machine is already trying to shape the rules before they’re written. 💰 Kudos to @demandprogress.bsky.social for tracking which politicians are being bankrolled by Leading the Future, the Super PAC backed by AI executives fighting guardrails. ⬇️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Google wants to overturn search remedies. The DOJ and 38 states want them strengthened. As Executive Director @sumitecon.bsky.social notes, no rival can outbid Google for default placement. Without stronger remedies, Google’s monopoly machine keeps running. ⚖️ www.techtimes.com/articles/318...
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Google Antitrust Appeal Filed: DC Circuit Can Strengthen Data Rules Even Without Chrome Sale
Google antitrust appeal reached the DC Circuit after Google filed its opening brief on May 22, 2026, challenging both the monopoly ruling and data-sharing mandates already in effect. The DOJ and 38 st...
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Love this from @nytimes.com: what happens when power lines take over your backyard to feed Big Tech’s insatiable appetite for AI? 🤦🏻‍♂️ Watch the video here: www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
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Video: When Data Centers Come for Your Backyard
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
ICYMI: We dropped the latest edition of Top Hat and Thimble last week! 📰 Get @sumitecon.bsky.social's take on the AI bubble, hear all the Microsoft/OpenAI/Musk drama, learn the latest on Google and search remedies, and more! Read it here: newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/p/top-hat-an...
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Top Hat & Thimble - May 2026
Welcome to NextGen Competition’s monthly recap, delivering insider insights on antitrust battles, Big Tech shakeups, AI trends, and more.
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Happy Prime Day! Friendly reminder that the FTC previously sued Amazon for acting as a monopoly that “inflates prices, degrades quality, and stifles innovation for consumers and businesses.” Maybe give a small business your money today instead. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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NextGen Competition @nextgencompetition.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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