The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday found that the partnerships between Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Alphabet's (NASDAQ:GOOGL)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google with OpenAI and Anthropic allows for the potential of the artificial intelligence (AI) developers being "fully acquired" by the tech giants.

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.

Publishing.com's claims about passive income from AI-generated Amazon books have drawn complaints about undisclosed fees and aggressive sales tactics.

Lina Khan, who was tapped by President Joe Biden to lead the FTC, is set to be replaced by President-elect Donald Trump’s pick Andrew Ferguson.

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The FTC study, which examined partnerships between Microsoft-OpenAI, Amazon-Anthropic, and Google-Anthropic, found that these agreements could potentially impact AI model development and determine many aspects of individuals' and firms' experiences with AI technology.

In a complaint filed Wednesday, the FTC alleged that since 2018, GoDaddy has failed to implement reasonable and appropriate security measures to protect and monitor its website-hosting environments for security threats and misled customers about the extent of its data security protections on its website hosting services.

The new antitrust team appointed by President-elect Trump includes bipartisan members with no clear indication of their enforcement approach, but historic precedent suggests that they may not interfere with business success where consumers seem satisfied.

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.

Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said she hopes the Trump administration won't give Amazon and Facebook parent Meta a "sweetheart deal" in pending antitrust cases by her agency. Khan was ...

Chair Lina Khan said Tuesday that she hopes her successor in the incoming Trump administration will not cut a “sweetheart” deal with Amazon (AMZN) and Facebook’s parent company Meta (META), as the agency continues its antitrust cases against the tech giants.

The Democratic enforcer significantly expanded the agency’s remit; now the new GOP administration will decide how to follow through.