{"id":43166,"date":"2023-12-11T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=43166"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:54:40","slug":"microsofts-openai-investment-draws-scrutiny-by-ftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/microsofts-openai-investment-draws-scrutiny-by-ftc\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s OpenAI investment draws scrutiny by FTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft faces a potential investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its significant investment in OpenAI. The FTC&#8217;s inquiry centers around antitrust concerns, given OpenAI&#8217;s non-profit roots and Microsoft&#8217;s substantial funding, which exceeds $10 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This funding is vital for powering AI model training and integrating ChatGPT into Microsoft&#8217;s product portfolio. Microsoft&#8217;s Chief Communications Officer, Frank X Shaw, emphasizes that Microsoft does not own OpenAI but is entitled to profit shares.<\/p>\n<p>The FTC&#8217;s scrutiny aligns with its ongoing investigation into OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT for privacy and reputational issues, and its past scrutiny of Microsoft&#8217;s business practices, notably the $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal. The UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority is also conducting a consultation on Microsoft&#8217;s relationship with OpenAI, examining potential competition impacts.<\/p>\n<p>Sources include: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/12\/11\/microsoft_openai_investment_ftc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Register<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft faces a potential investigation by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its significant investment in OpenAI. The FTC&#8217;s inquiry centers around antitrust concerns, given OpenAI&#8217;s non-profit roots and Microsoft&#8217;s substantial funding, which exceeds $10 billion. This funding is vital for powering AI model training and integrating ChatGPT into Microsoft&#8217;s product portfolio. Microsoft&#8217;s Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[60,62,772,275],"class_list":["post-43166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation-regulation","tag-ftc","tag-microsoft","tag-openai","tag-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43168,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43166\/revisions\/43168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}