Lina Khan

Last week, it almost seemed like Elon Musk was going to do a good thing. The eccentric, loud-mouthed billionaire announced he would be suing OpenAI, the influential tech company he co-founded back in 2015. The reason? Musk said that OpenAI had betrayed its original mandate of “helping humanity.” The company, which notably began as an open-source research organization, had morphed into a profit-sucking corporate Goliath with little interest in sharing its code. As such, Musk said in his lawsuit that he wanted a court to…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) concluded Elon Musk ordered Twitter (now X) employees to take actions that would have violated an FTC consent decree regarding consumers’ data privacy and security. The investigation arose from the late 2022 episode informally known as “The Twitter Files,” where Musk ordered staff to let outside writers access internal documents from the company’s systems. However, the FTC says Twitter security veterans “took appropriate measures to protect consumers’ private information,” likely sparing…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an inquiry into the billion-dollar AI deals of OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Anthropic on Thursday. Throughout the inquiry, cloud providers must disclose details about the nature of their partnerships and investments with AI startups. Of particular interest is the partnership behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Microsoft, in which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella hired Sam Altman and offered jobs to his 700-person staff after the OpeanAI CEO was fired in November.Why is Everyone…

OpenAI’s mission is to develop a god-like artificial intelligence, but it might never get there without the help of Microsoft. U.S. regulators are reportedly clamoring over who can investigate OpenAI and Microsoft’s relationship over antitrust concerns, according to Politico on Friday. If the partnership is broken up, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may fall short of his mission to build a human-loving Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of My Eyeballs | Future TechThe Department of Justice and the…

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OpenAI’s recent drama hasn’t only caught UK regulators’ attention. Bloomberg reported Friday that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking into Microsoft’s investment in the Sam Altman-led company and whether it violates US antitrust laws. FTC Chair Lina Khan wrote in a New York Times op-ed earlier this year that “the expanding adoption of AI risks further locking in the market dominance of large incumbent technology firms.”Bloomberg’s report stresses that the FTC inquiry is preliminary, and the agency hasn’t opened…

Mark Zuckerberg’s company Meta has chaffed under a 2020 privacy settlement with the FTC, but the agency wants to keep the company from making any money from children’s data.Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg (Getty Images)Meta is working all the angles it can to ensure it will still be able to profit from children’s Facebook data. After a recent loss in court, the company has now sued the Federal Trade Commission, arguing the agency doesn’t have the constitutional authority to change a 2020 $5 billion settlement over the…

Google is in talks to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in AI startup Character.AI that will help the latter train artificial intelligence chatbot models, a report said. Citing sources who were briefed on the matter, news agency Reuters reported that the investment by Google could be structured as convertible notes and will deepen the existing partnership between the companies. Character.AI currently uses Google's cloud services and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) to train models.The talks with Google are ongoing and…

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI Inc., questioning whether its popular ChatGPT conversational AI bot puts consumers' reputations and data at risk, according to a person familiar with the matter.The probe into the Microsoft Corp. -backed startup marks the first official inquiry into a technology that has the potential to change almost every aspect of people's lives and has become almost equally as fascinating for its potential to run awry. FTC Chair Lina Khan, who testified before…

The Federal Trade Commision is investigating OpenAI to determine whether or not its ChatGPT AI chatbot and other products violate consumer protection laws by putting people’s personal reputations and data at risk. CEO Sam Altman, who has so far managed to smile and nod his way around most governmental roadblocks, may face his first real opposition from the openly combative consumer protection agency.Netflix Passwords, ChatGPT Can’t Detect AI, and No More CoTweets | Editor PicksThe FTCasked OpenAI to hand over a lengthy…