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AI Generated Business: The Rise of AGI and the Rush to Find a Working Revenue Model
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AI Now co-ED Amba Kak’s Speech at the German Green Party’s Shaping AI Conference
Apr 19, 2024
Power and Governance in the Age of AI
Mar 14, 2024
Joint submission to the European Commission’s consultation on competition and generative AI
Mar 12, 2024
AI Now Submission to the Office and Management and Budget on AI Guidelines
Dec 20, 2023
Sarah Myers West Testifies Before the US Senate on Algorithms and Competition
Dec 14, 2023
Amba Kak Testifies Before Congress on Data Minimization
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Related Press [10]
What’s the real cost of chasing AGI? Power consolidation is just the start, says the AI Now Institute.
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan caught up with Amba Kak and Dr. Sarah Myers West from the AI Now Institute, a think tank focused on the social implications of AI and the consolidation of power in the tech industry. Their recent report, dubbed Artificial Power, lays out the political economy driving today’s AI frenzy and what’s at stake for everyone else.
TechCrunch
Sep 3, 2025
Is the AI Bubble Too Big to Fail?
“We’re now locked into a particular version of the market and the future where all roads lead to big tech,” says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, which studies AI development and policy. Indeed, the success of major stock indexes—and perhaps your 401(k)—is resting on the continued growth of AI: Meta, Amazon, and the chipmakers Nvidia and Broadcom have accounted for 60 percent of the S&P 500’s returns this year.
Inc.
Aug 28, 2025
Did Sam Altman Accidentally Admit That the AI Bubble Is Here?
Did Sam Altman Accidentally Admit That the AI Bubble Is Here? The economics seem fuzzy at best, but the largest AI companies are unlikely to take a financial hit because of U.S. government subsidies, says Amba Kak, co-executive director of the AI Now Institute, a policy organization.
Inc.
Aug 12, 2025
What Open AI Doesn’t Want You to Know
AI companies are spending millions to get the laws they want. They're not trying to cure cancer, or save America. These companies want to make $100 billion overnight, and they're willing to sponsor dangerous laws to make it happen.
More Perfect Union
Jul 2, 2025
This is where the data to build AI comes from
And because Google is also developing its own AI models, its massive advantage also raises questions about how the company will make this data available for competitors, says Sarah Myers West, the co–executive director at the AI Now Institute
MIT Technology Review
Dec 26, 2024
What If Tech Execs Don’t Really Need All These Data Centers?
“They’ve gotten themselves into a business model that’s very cost-intensive up front, and very unproven in terms of what profits they’re going to have on the back-end or what the ultimate utility will be,” says Sarah Myers West, co-executive director of AINow and a former senior adviser on AI at the Federal Trade Commission.
New Republic
Dec 26, 2024
How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war
“It is not going to be about who has the best model but who has the best infrastructure and platform-play with access to the consumer,” Kak says. “Inflection and Mistral are the barnacles on the hull of Big Tech.”
Financial Times
Mar 22, 2024
Generative AI is transforming businesses everywhere. Big Tech will still be crowned the winner.
In April, researchers at the AI Now Institute published a report that said AI development had been "foundationally reliant" on the resources held and controlled by the giants.
Business Insider
Dec 8, 2023
Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech
If we’re not careful, Microsoft, Amazon, and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors.
MIT Tecnology Review
Dec 5, 2023
The AI Supply Chain: An Emerging Oligopoly?
The report was published ahead of a November 15 event hosted by the Open Markets Institute and the AI Now Institute Washington, DC.
Tech Policy Press
Nov 20, 2023