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Jonathan Kanter is using AI to take on Big Tech

November 9, 2026 Lauren Feiner

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When Jonathan Kanter stepped down as head of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division in 2024, he set out to keep fighting to dismantle illegal monopolies. But this time, he's continuing the fight in the private sector, and with a perhaps unexpected tool: AI.

Alongside former acting Antitrust Division chief Doha Mekki, Kanter recently launched a new tech startup, FluxCap. The team is stacked with former DOJ staffers and former Palantir engineers, and it's selling an AI-based legal research and analysis tool that helps plaintiffs build and strengthen cases against the kinds of well-heeled companies Kanter and Mekki took on at the Antitrus …

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