The close relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft has attracted the attention of securities and competition regulators in the USA. From Politico:

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission are deep in discussions over which agency can probe OpenAI, including the ChatGPT creators’ involvement with Microsoft, on antitrust grounds.

The FTC initiated talks with the DOJ months ago to figure out which one can review the matter, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. But neither agency is ready to relinquish jurisdiction, the people said, which must be resolved before the government can formally intervene in one of the most high-profile and controversial tech partnerships in recent years.

Would the US government do anything to reign in to world-leading tech companies? Seems unlikely.

Read the article here.