The US FTC releases a report saying Microsoft's $13B investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the company could extend its cloud computing dominance into AI
Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms Jon Keegan / Sherwood News : FTC report scrutinizes OpenAI and Anthropic's partnerships with cloud giants Grace Priscilla Teo / Tech in Asia : US warns of risks in Microsoft's $13b OpenAI investment Markus Kasanmascheff / WinBuzzer : FTC Probes AI Deals of Microsoft-OpenAI and Anthropic with Google And Amazon for Antitrust Risks Florian Mueller / ai fray : FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours Bluesky: Romit Mehta / @romitmehta.com : A distant second in market share with a close third place company is not cloud “dominance”. AWS still much bigger. [embedded post] Mike / @kramit : Azure isn't dominant in cloud compute, and yes MS have the money to burn on these kind of AI projects. Who else is going to set billions on fire to buy chips to see if something actually is going to work in the long run. Nothing to see here, move along X: Nik / @ns123abc : 🚨NEWS: FTC flags Microsoft for $13B OpenAI investment over cloud monopoly concerns we are so back [image] Mike Swift / @swiftstories : Here's the key takeaway, including concerns about effects in limiting of engineering talent, compute power, cloud switching costs, inside track to sensitive technical and business information. So potential #antitrust and #dataprotection and data access issues. [image] Forums: Msmash / Slashdot : Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Antitrust Concerns, FTC Says