With its cunning takeover of the AI startup Inflection, Microsoft once again shows how Big Tech is amassing influence over AI, regulators be damned.
Let’s say you want to buy a company. Said company wants to sell, and you could afford it. But there’s one big problem: regulators really don’t like when you buy companies. You know they’ll fight like hell to block you from buying this one. What do you do? You do what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just did to Inflection, a would-be OpenAI challenger that raised hundreds of millions of dollars and is, for all intents and purposes, no more.
They’ve been sternly instructed by management to not talk about the IPO on social media without using pre-approved language. An internal FAQ page I’ve seen even says to avoid posting anything about “stonks” memes, “Diamond Hands references,” or phrases like “to the moon.
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