By Luis Rijo
Publication Date: 2026-11-09 20:34:00
The Open Markets Institute, a Washington-based group that campaigns against corporate monopolies, today published a 71-page report arguing that the companies which already run the internet’s main gateways are positioned to take control of AI agents – the software assistants that choose products, complete purchases, book travel and write messages on a person’s behalf. The report, “Same Gatekeepers, New Gateway: AI Agents, Monopoly Power, and Democratic Risk,” names Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta as the firms best placed to extend their control of cloud computing, foundation models, operating systems, browsers, search and social platforms into the agent market, and sets out a policy programme meant to stop that from happening.
The report is an advocacy document. Its findings and recommendations are the positions of Open Markets, a group whose stated mission, according to its announcement, is to address threats to democracy, individual liberty and economic opportunity “posed…
