Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership Raises Concerns at FTC (2)

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.

The commission said Microsoft’s deal with OpenAI, as well as Amazon.com Inc. and Google’s partnerships with AI company Anthropic, raise the risk that AI developers could be “fully acquired” by the tech giants in the future.

In the two-plus years since ChatGPT kicked off a frenzy around generative AI, leading AI startups have turned to large tech firms for support developing the ...