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FTC Urged to Take Decisive Action against Microsoft’s AI Dominance

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  • FTC pressured Microsoft to act on its AI dominance tactics.
  • Experts want the FTC to use multiple tools to promote AI/cloud competition.
  • Current policies to shape the AI/cloud market’s future competitiveness.

As FTC’s power expands, the possibility of having such authority to regulate the end of Microsoft’s AI or at least limit its domination in the cloud computing sector is becoming a reality. Currently, the speed at which AI technology is developing is massive. At the same pace, the anxiety of the public is also showing a huge increase. People were thinking about the consequences of social change as AI started to shine in that field, slowly taking away people’s work and slowing down their minds.

Scrutinizing Microsoft’s aggressive AI tactics

Microsoft had indeed fetched in this new event on both sides; being a competitor and regulator, it left the public out of the picture. Such privatization of Open AI, the world’s biggest research firm in the area, which Microsoft bought for a whopping $13 billion in 2018, has enabled Microsoft to have the monopoly needs of the license for intellectual property. 

However, this has now culminated in the advantage given to the OpenAI founding members, who have also been given the exclusive privilege of Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. This company automatically shuts the door of any other competitor cloud service providers.

However, such an event raised a recall of the current AI competition where Microsoft is far behind Inflection AI, which recently replaced the AI CEO of its main competitors. Also, the intricate executives supported it, and even some researchers whose job was to strengthen its newly fashioned R&D. The long-standing pact covering the company’s acquisition was not close to this recent venture. Microsoft could cautiously Steal patents from competitors, and at the moment, it is needed.

Calls for proactive regulatory oversight

For the challengers, this argument applies if they think about Microsoft’s behavior because the unique license production and service model was made to eliminate the contest’s previous rules in the special market. The performance or speed of AI skills is anticipated to go beyond this point from today, and customers could be faced with limited options, making a market oligopoly more likely to be created.

Prove continuous growth of IT competency by adding new services, mainly AI and cloud computing services, and either quicker or harsher FTC pressure will be the major demand. Nevertheless, the formal investigation process should not be considered over, and antitrust investigatory tools that include studies and policy statements in conjunction with public awareness campaigns might make a difference. However, the course of action should be diversified to include also a non-enforcement-type subject matter.

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The FTC Chair at the moment, Lina Khan, is playing hardball by trying to ensure that the industries get their fair share in the current situation to avoid them having any legitimate reasons also, the rates and conditions are crucial for competition to happen, which will in turn result to low prices. The last appointed committees by the drug watchdog are now working on varying matters, such as increasing drug competition by making the price of the drug affordable. This was so. She was the one who should have been to be supported the most. 

These tools are the principal way AI data and computing market growths could demonstrate reliability and security without increasing costs. The APIs narrowly serve it with limited data that does not give accurate information about user needs and is not ideal for fulfilling such needs. This deregulation helps motivate individuals by giving them the chance to increase the ability of the regulator to function well through room creation for competition.

In this last paragraph, we are likely to start expressions that will have reached within the system for regions recently gained through the idle means of production items (NTKs). Both AI and ML technologies are fragmenting markets to the point where the existence of a single industry is almost impossible. But among these, many are accountable for other businesses becoming more strongly financial in their position, people’s lack of confidence raises their byproducts, and the possibility of monopoly (the dominance of one business) becomes almost possible to arise.

As the FTC Agency remains committed to tracking the issues related to AI purchases and partnerships, any small turning stone will be lifted, and each door will be wide open for all government representatives, consumer advocates, or industry regulators ready to discover the anti-brand development stories. The difference between the old and new laws is that lawmakers need to make exceptions to the new legislation to accommodate different purposes of the new law. 

These provisions can be made real in such a scenario, such as private firms improving upon technologies to accommodate the developments. However, there may also be instances in which the diversity of companies pursues market shares to eliminate any going concern, thus hampering economic growth.

This article originally appeared on the Bloomberg Law.

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