The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies

Microsoft Corp.’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the tech giant could extend its dominance in cloud computing into the nascent artificial intelligence market, the Federal Trade Commission said in a report released Friday.

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has finalized a version of its new reasoning AI model o3 mini and would be launching it in a couple of weeks, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday.

Meta, Apple, Google and other tech companies have been named in a letter penned by Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of cozying up to President-elect Trump.

These two men are of different generations (Gates is 69, Altman 39), and their companies presided over different revolutions. But Microsoft and OpenAI are coming together to offer some of the most relevant new services and capabilities to the market.

The FTC warns that multi-billion-dollar partnerships between Big Tech and AI startups could lead to the monopolization of the AI and cloud computing sectors.

Lawyers for The New York Times, the Daily News and other newspapers Tuesday asked a Manhattan judge to reject an effort by OpenAI and Microsoft to dismiss parts of their lawsuits accusing the tech giants of stealing reporters’ stories to train their AI products.

Agencies across the intelligence community and the Defense Department can now use OpenAI’s GPT-4o for the government’s most classified mission sets.

The ChatGPT maker argues the incoming Trump administration should make massive government investments in AI, arguing it can bring broad economic prosperity.

The maker of ChatGPT hopes to spur investment from the Middle East and avoid strict regulations on the development of new technologies.

(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) MANHATTAN (CN) ­— During a court hearing Tuesday morning, lawyers for tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI defended the tech companies’ practice of “scraping” enormous quantities of online news stories to train the large ...

Microsoft Corp.’s US$13 billion investment in OpenAI raises concerns that the tech giant could extend its dominance in cloud computing into the nascent artificial intelligence (AI) market, the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a report released Friday.