{"id":232587,"date":"2026-06-16T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:40:10","slug":"mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mornings with Brian Haldane &#8211; Big Tech in the Crosshairs as AI Debate Heats Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up\/\">Mornings with Brian Haldane &#8211; Big Tech in the Crosshairs as AI Debate Heats Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up\/\">https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/mornings-with-brian-haldane-big-tech-in-the-crosshairs-as-ai-debate-heats-up\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-16 09:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.rstreet.org\">www.rstreet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>AICOA Introduction<\/strong>: The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is new legislation aiming to modify U.S. antitrust standards to limit &#8220;self-preferencing&#8221; practices among large digital platforms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Targeted Practices<\/strong>: AICOA would restrict practices where tech giants like Google, Apple, Meta, and Amazon favor their own products and services over competitors on their platforms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competition vs. Innovation Concerns<\/strong>: Proponents argue this would enhance competition, but Josh Withrow warns of potential negative impacts on convenience, functionality, and innovation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Comparisons to Europe<\/strong>: The legislation parallels the European Digital Markets Act, which has experienced reduced service integration and delays in AI features.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regulation of Fast-Evolving Technologies<\/strong>: Withrow highlights the challenge of regulating rapidly changing technologies like AI, noting AICOA may be outdated before fully implemented.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effect on Smaller Businesses<\/strong>: Changes in platform operations mandated by AICOA could disrupt smaller businesses reliant on large digital platforms for distribution.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Balancing Act<\/strong>: AICOA is part of a larger dialogue about the balance between competition policy and fostering technological innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mornings with Brian Haldane &#8211; Big Tech in the Crosshairs as AI Debate Heats Up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":232588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/yoest-facebook-share-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232589,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232587\/revisions\/232589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}