Please join us for a Reuters NEXT Newsmaker with U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

The rapid advance of artificial intelligence is raising new questions about competition, market power and consumer protection. As AI companies race to develop and deploy increasingly powerful technologies, regulators face growing pressure to determine how existing antitrust and consumer protection laws apply to rapidly evolving markets.

Under Chairman Andrew Ferguson, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission sits at the center of debates over Big Tech, AI competition, mergers, platform dominance and the future of digital regulation. Policymakers, businesses and investors are closely watching how the FTC approaches enforcement as artificial intelligence poses the potential both to usher in new opportunities and to further entrench dominant players.

Reuters Tech Policy and Antitrust Correspondent Jody Godoy speaks with Ferguson at Reuters Momentum AI Austin about the FTC's priorities in the AI era, the agency's approach to competition and consumer protection, the relationship between innovation and regulation, and the challenges of overseeing some of the world's most influential technology companies.