"FTC Investigates Tech Giants' AI Deals and Partnerships"

The Federal Trade Commission has launched an inquiry into the multibillion dollar investments by Microsoft, Amazon, and Google in the artificial intelligence start-ups OpenAI and Anthropic, aiming to understand how these investments and partnerships may distort innovation and undermine fair competition. This move broadens the regulator’s efforts to address the power that tech giants hold over A.I. and marks the first major effort by the agency to understand the way companies are using partnerships and investments to rapidly expand their influence in A.I.