The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between Big Tech

OpenAI has hired Meta's head of AI compute and storage supply chain as part of its infrastructure strategy and leadership team. Keith Heyde joined the generative artificial intelligence startup in November, but the move has not been previously reported.

Shares of Google parent Alphabet ( GOOG -1.14%) ( GOOGL -0.98%) surged 35.5% in 2024, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence . Alphabet entered 2024 under a cloud of skepticism regarding its competitiveness in the artificial intelligence (AI) races and amid pressure from antitrust authorities.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)-backed OpenAI is planning to launch a new ChatGPT feature this week that will automate complex tasks usually done via a web browser, such as undertaking restaurant reservations or planning trips,

The Microsoft-backed company has considered user feedback and, consequently, plans to release the application programming interface (API) and ChatGPT simultaneously, Altman wrote in a post on social media platform X.

The move has been met with a mixture of cautious optimism from tech leaders and apprehension from experts concerned about the lack of oversight.

The commission noted that the investment may extend Microsoft's dominance in cloud computing into the emerging AI market.

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