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Record-Breaking Tech Innovation, Investment, Entry and Business Formation in Recent Years

Critics of the technology sector have asserted in 2020 that digital markets are stagnant, closed to entry, and low on competitive investment and that AICOA is “critical to reversing these trends by ...
  • Artificial Intelligence
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New Jersey’s Monopsony Case Against Amazon Relies on an Indefensible Market Definition  

An antitrust case in a labor market must answer one central question: where can these workers provide their labor? New Jersey’s August 4 complaint against Amazon, billed as the first monopsony condu...
  • Competition
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AICOA Would Import the Costs of the EU’s DMA to the U.S.

Washington rarely gets to see the results of a policy before enacting it. On ex-ante digital regulation, it can. The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has been in force against designated â...
  • Competition
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Doe v. Github: The Ninth Circuit saves AI Training in DMCA Case

Last year, CCIA and the Chamber of Progress submitted a joint brief to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Doe v. Github, a case centered on training artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools. This ...
    Artificial Intelligence
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The FTC’s Personalized Pricing Disclosures Would Cost Consumers Their Discounts

Suppose every diner had to print a disclosure saying “Warning: price adjusted for seniors based on the restaurant’s analysis of how income and shopping behavior evolve with age” next to the seni...
  • Competition
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On Algorithms, Expression, and the First Amendment: Why using Algorithms to Edit and Curate Online Content is Constitutionally-protected

Earlier this year, CCIA testified on California’s SB 976, the “Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act,” and urged state officials to maintain their pursuit of protecting kids online...
  • Online Safety
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The Case Against Outdated AICOA Bill Has Only Gotten Stronger

Executive Summary Six years ago, a House Judiciary Committee report declared America’s largest digital platforms a competitive dead end: entrenched, unassailable, closed to new entry. That report...
  • Competition
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Beyond the Digital Markets Act’s (DMA) Teething Phase: Evaluating Compliance Realities and Procedural Fairness 

Three years after the Digital Markets Act (DMA) started to apply, its enforcement record is now subject to scrutiny. The debate is no longer confined to the law’s ambitions, but should also focus on...
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Personalized Pricing Is Good, Actually

Last year, I wrote an explainer on algorithmic pricing that defined personalized pricing in terms of targeted discounts to allow consumers to participate in markets that they would be priced out of un...
  • Innovation Policy
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Amended AB 1776 Would Still Cost California $670 Billion and Risk a Fiscal Squeeze Caused by Reduced Startup Values

A bill containing the biggest potential rewrite of California’s antitrust laws in a century is working its way through California’s Senate. AB 1776 would add single-firm liability to a statute tha...
  • Competition
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The Supreme Court Expands Privacy Rights to More Squarely Encompass Your Digital Footprint

When police cannot identify a suspect, they increasingly turn to technology companies rather than witnesses. The Supreme Court confronted one of the most aggressive versions of this practice in Chatri...
  • Privacy
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In Pictures: European AI Roundtable on Copyright – Fuelling Creativity in the AI Age 

On 2 June 2026, the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA Europe) hosted the latest edition of its European AI Roundtable in Brussels. The event brought together EU policymakers, le...