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OpenAI board shakeup: Microsoft out, Apple backs away
Microsoft gives up non-voting observer board role; Apple rethinks a planned similar position.
Microsoft has withdrawn from its non-voting observer role on OpenAI's board, while Apple has opted not to take a similar position, reports Axios and Financial Times. The decision is part of "a new approach to informing and engaging key strategic partners" under Sarah Friar, who came on as OpenAI's first chief financial officer last month. Regulators in both the US and Europe are worried that Big Tech's heavy influence in fast-growing AI startups may unreasonably edge out competition and establish de facto monopolies over key technologies that would stifle smaller competitors.
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