Ketan Ahuja

The Antitrust Agencies Should Block OpenAI’s Windsurf Acquisition To Support AI Innovation - ProMarket Recent government wins against Big Tech demonstrate the prudence of proactively stopping consolidation in the emerging AI startup ecosystem to prevent harm to innovation and consumers. OpenAI’s recent acquisition of Windsurf raises these competition concerns. The antitrust agencies should block it.

When big firms buy out their future competitors, we lose the next generation of innovation.

@ketan-ahuja.bsky.social lays out why OpenAI’s Windsurf deal echoes past tech consolidations, and why regulators must act now, in @promarket.bsky.social‬:
www.promarket.org/2025/05/20/...

See more in Bruegel's Blueprint, writing with Ricardo Hausmann: lnkd.in/esFv-wJ6

With many thanks to Simone Tagliapietra and Heather Grabbe for producing a great @bruegel.bsky.social volume.

The economic winners in the energy transition will be the states and regions that develop appropriate institutions to succeed at building competitiveness in emerging clean-energy industries.

3. Companies become big by being competitive; they should not be made big so that they can become competitive. Industrial policy should aim to make companies good rather than big, by combining the right support with engineered competitive market conditions, rather than create national champions.

2. Industrial policy and competition policy are intrinsically related and mutually enhancing.

This changes how we should think about competitiveness, industrial policy and competition policy in several ways:

1. States have a role in shaping competitiveness above and beyond organic market processes, through shaping supply, demand and market conditions.

Instead, state-directed goals, engineered market structures, and policy-driven scaling of supply and demand have driven this economic progress, largely from China. In the process, China has built a commanding lead in the industries of the future, threatening European and American competitiveness.

Policymakers often think that organic market competition drives low prices, innovation, and economic progress. But organic market processes have had little to do with the forces driving down prices for solar, wind, batteries, and many other energy technologies.

OPINION | The CFPB performs an ancient social function | Fintech Nexus How dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau turns back the clock — exposing consumers to financial harm and encouraging unfair industry practices People have been flooding the internet wi...

The CFPB protects us from financial scams. We've always needed norms and institutions to protects us from financial scams and abuse. Crazy narratives about how the CFPB is evil are just trying to distract us from realizing that Trump is siding with the scammers.

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Opinion | We’re still at the beginning of the end of Google’s monopoly The Justice Department’s push for Google to sell off its Chrome browser is a good start, but not nearly enough.

"This moment is not just about reining in one company, but it’s also about reclaiming a digital economy that serves us all."

@nikolusiani.bsky.social & Ketan Ahuja explore the DOJ’s proposed remedies for Google ⤵️ www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Pro-public tech 📲 innovation requires creating a digital ecosystem that actually serves and protects public interests.

The DOJ’s proposed remedies for Google are a good first step, but there is much more to be done. @nikolusiani.bsky.social & @ketan-ahuja.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Don't listen to Google or anyone else who tries to paint these remedies as radical. Google's conduct was egregious (paying its competitors $26 billion annually to collaborate 🤫) and its monopoly is entrenched. We need bold remedies that actually fix the problem, the the DOJ's proposals aim to do.

Some details still need to be worked out. But bold and creative remedies are needed here, and the DOJ's proposal has delivered on its mandate to fix the problem.

The DOJ recently proposed a suite of remedies, including forcing Google to sell Chrome, that would end Google's monopolistic practices and nicely reintroduce competition in search, benefitting millions of ecommerce entrepreneurs around the country.

Ecommerce brands can spend 15-20% (and up to 40% depending on their stage of growth) on digital ads, often representing all their profit margin. As you often hear from people in the tech industry, if you control distribution, you control the market.

Opinion | We’re still at the beginning of the end of Google’s monopoly The Justice Department’s push for Google to sell off its Chrome browser is a good start, but not nearly enough.

The DOJ's proposed remedies against Google (including forcing Google to sell Chrome) are a nice first step to fixing Google's monopoly, and restoring a digital innovation ecosystem that works for everyone.

My thoughts, with Niko Lusiani, in MSNBC: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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