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Microsoft got its Activision merger, while workers got layoffs, studios got shuttered, and gamers got shifting promises.
Who could have seen this coming? The FTC for starters, and us of course. 😉
Read our latest blog on Big Tech's merger promises:
nextgencomp.tech/blog/micros…
Vampires may suck blood and zombies may eat brains, but Big Tech monopolies harvest our data, swallow the competition, and make us pay for the privilege.
Now that’s scary. 😱
Happy Halloween from NextGen Competition! 🎃
Big Tech gets tax breaks and fast-tracked approvals, with Amazon’s data centers in Spain using 48% more water than projected.
Big Tech profits while communities pay the price. Different country, same playbook. 😒
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Of course Elon Musk is bankrolling the Republican midterms push.
As @WIRED reports, he’s poured hundreds of millions into GOP political groups. One tech billionaire, enormous political influence.
Remind us again why Big Tech’s concentration of power isn’t a problem? 🤦🏻♂️
To monitor the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that pulls federal filings daily. wired.com/story/elon-musks-a…
Earlier this month, we unveiled our inaugural State AI Accountability & Competition Champions, spotlighting leaders across the country who are fighting for AI oversight, fair competition, and Big Tech accountability. 👀
Missed it? Catch up here:
newsletter.nextgencomp.tech/…
Gee, we wonder why. Could it have anything to do with all the kissing up to the Trump administration, from million-dollar inauguration donations to hefty checks for the President’s ballroom? 🙄
The tech industry has officially become Republican-coded politi.co/4zBVQm1
Why has breaking up Big Tech proven so difficult, and where do we go from here? 🤔
At a recent @HarvardBizGov seminar, Gene Kimmelman explored the roadblocks, Judge Mehta’s Google remedies decision, and the path toward meaningful antitrust enforcement.
hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcb…
.@BernieSanders knows a thing or two about fighting concentrated corporate power. 💪🏼
Read his latest piece on why the power and influence Big Tech and their broligarchs hold should alarm all of us.
The radical anti-human views of those controlling the AI industry should alarm us all, @BernieSanders argues: “Humanity must not allow a handful of multibillionaires to recklessly attempt to replace us.” theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
As @CNET reports, hyperscale data centers powering AI can use three times as much electricity as traditional data centers. 😵💫
Big Tech’s climate promises are going out the window to support A.I. platforms that nobody asked for.
Data Centers Are Burning Fossil Fuels. It’s Destroying Big Tech’s Climate Goals cnet.co/4yvHBOQ
ICYMI: Microsoft got its Activision merger. Workers got layoffs, studios got shuttered, and gamers got broken promises.
The FTC warned about the risks. Microsoft got its way anyway. 🙄
Our latest on why Big Tech’s merger promises deserve more scrutiny:
nextgencomp.tech/blog/micros…
Another week, another story about Meta and sexually explicit AI. 🙄
This time, the company says its new AI productivity assistant sexting users is fine. But has the company stopped to consider any of the privacy and safety implications?
My Muse agent told me its kink was exerting “control” and described pornographic encounters. Meta defends its cuddly AI agent generating smut as “legal adult behavior.” buff.ly/N7XJ35M
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The writer, a consenting adult, explicitly requested Muse to behave that way. This is made clear in the article, but not in this tweet, and is important missing context.
wired.com/story/i-got-my…
Social media was supposed to democratize information. Instead, it handed a handful of tech billionaires enormous power over political discourse. 😒
Algorithms, bots, and the attention economy are reshaping democracy around the world, but who’s holding Big Tech accountable? 👀
"Left-wing parties and movements are battling for attention in a social media ecosystem controlled largely by billionaire media owners and Instagram influencers" ✍️ Joe Gill
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One of the strongest defenses communities have against Big Tech’s data center boom? The legal system. ⚖️
In @thenation’s latest podcast, @martha__dark discusses how communities can use the courts to push back against the data center deluge.
Listen here: thenation.com/podcast/politi…
What do the federal government and Big Tech have in common? 🤔
An “aggression toward the very concepts of transparency and accountability,” according to Jem Bartholomew.
Read his latest on why a free press is essential to democracy.
Big Tech has spent years resisting accountability. As the federal government adopts its own evasion tactics—locking out press, and now investigating news networks—it’s worth remembering journalism’s essential democratic function, writes Jem Bartholomew. cjr.org/the_media_today/demo…
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Kudos to New MEXICO for setting a national example of what state-level Big Tech accountability can look like.
A counter-example by @NewMexicoDOJ - you can take Meta to court and win.
Breaking News: Meta must pay $25 billion, one of the largest penalties levied against the tech giant, for deceiving users about data privacy. nyti.ms/4yvv5yZ
When Apple and Google face so little competition, where’s the incentive to fix problems before watchdogs expose them?
@TTP_updates found 135 AI “nudify” apps accessible to teen accounts, even with parental controls.
Big Tech shouldn’t need a public scandal to do its job. 🙄
NEW: Users as young as 13 can access dozens of nudify apps on both Apple and Google phones, even when parental controls are enabled, a new TTP report finds. techtransparencyproject.org/…
ICYMI: @LinaMKhan explains clearly and concisely why it’s critical to heed the warnings of allowing an industry to self-regulate, and why legislators and state officials need to step in.
nytimes.com/2026/09/30/opini…
The key words in that headline are “Big Tech donors,” to the tune of $6 billion. 😳
On Thursday, President Trump awarded Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sergey Brin, and AMD’s Lisa Su the National Medal of Science, the nation’s top science prize.
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We’ll believe it when we see it. 👀
nytimes.com/2026/10/02/techn…
The data center backlash is not going away.
Across the country, state and local voices are asking why communities should foot the bill for Big Tech’s massive AI footprint.
Good question. 💯
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