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IPANDETEC shares Open Markets Institute report on monopoly risks in agentic AI
9 November 2026 · Originally published by IPANDETEC – Instituto Panameño de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías ↗
IPANDETEC shares the Open Markets Institute report of 9 November 2026, which warns that large tech firms could control the AI agent market. It proposes competition and regulatory measures to prevent this.
IPANDETEC, the Panamanian institute, has shared a report by the Open Markets Institute released in Washington, D. C. on 9 November 2026. The document is titled Los mismos guardianes, una nueva puerta de entrada: agentes de IA, poder monopólico y riesgo democrático, and argues that the companies that dominate the Internet today are well placed to control artificial intelligence agents, systems that make decisions and act on behalf of users.
According to the text, companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta could rely on their control of cloud computing, foundation models, operating systems, browsers, search and platforms to shut out competitors. The report identifies three drivers of concentration: control over distribution, dependence created by accumulated user data, and control over access and technical standards. As an example, it notes that European regulators have stepped in to secure access for AI agents to Android and WhatsApp.
The authors call on regulators and policymakers in the United States, Europe and elsewhere to require interoperability and data portability, ensure fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to infrastructure, and set binding duties of loyalty and care owed by agents to their users. They also propose independent technical standards and firm enforcement of antitrust law, including structural remedies where vertical integration creates conflicts of interest.
Max von Thun, director of Open Markets Institute Europe, and Dr. Courtney C. Radsch, director of the Open Markets Center for Digital and Media Governance, stressed the need to act in time. The report, also written by George Colville and Dora Wierzbicka, builds on earlier research by Radsch and Sally Hubbard, and links the issue to fair, inclusive and human-rights-based AI governance.
News summary prepared by CEA Digital Law from a publication by IPANDETEC – Instituto Panameño de Derecho y Nuevas Tecnologías.
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