Antitrust

There’s a moment in every tech revolution when the money stops making sense to normal people. For AI, that moment arrived this week. Google just committed up to $40 billion in Anthropic — the company behind Claude. This landed four days after Amazon announced its own $25 billion deal with the same company. Combined: $65 billion in potential investment from two competing tech giants, into a single startup, in one week. ...

The European Commission just slapped Meta with a regulatory uppercut. On April 15, Brussels formally rejected Meta’s attempt to charge rival AI companies for access to WhatsApp’s 2 billion users — and threatened to force the tech giant to restore free access for competitors like Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI, and Perplexity. This isn’t just a legal skirmish. It’s the fight that decides whether you get to choose your AI assistant, or whether the company that owns your messaging app chooses for you. ...