So the board consists of (former) U.S. Treasury, Gates Foundation, NSA, Sony, Quora, Instacart and Salesforce.<p>Confidence inspiring indeed. All your data will be totally safe.
> The development comes as regulators in the EU and US increase their scrutiny of Big Tech's investments in AI startups<p>Done for anti trust reasons, or because they want a bit more deniability when something goes wrong (data leak, copyright issues, NSA connections)?<p>Hasn't the FTC been fine with the existing structure as long as MSFT/AAPL/GOOGL/NVDA doesn't take ownership? Thats the reason why MSFT made the weird investment+chain to azure compute agreement.
This is boring news. I was really looking forward to another episode of Boardroom Shakeup.<p>It's interesting that Microsoft and Apple have made such deep integrations and are forgoing any direct control or influence. I am sure there are plenty of nonofficial channels, but it still is surprising.
Related/source:<p><i>OpenAI board will not have Microsoft and Apple as observers</i><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40923895">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40923895</a>