US aims antitrust trial at Big Tech choirboy Microsoft

After a year-long investigation, the Federal Trade Commission has brought proceedings against the last great American monopolist...

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Microsoft’s Satya Nadella probably found himself reflecting on Wordsworth’s most famous poem this morning…

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd…

Mmm hmmm. That’ll be the FTC lawyers, because today US antitrust slugger Lina Khan added Microsoft to the tech titans she’s suing for being illegal monopolists.

Microsoft makes it a full house, adding to Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon.

All are now facing actions designed to re-engineer the power, structure, and monetisation of the digital economy and AI to be more competitive.

Notably absent until now has been Microsoft, though I’ve been reporting for a year how its incautious views on AI have been making regulators more and more twitchy.

Nadella's focused on the stars but Khan could bring it down

And dumbass comments like this from Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman simply shorten the fuse. Remember this? 🙊

“With respect to content that’s on the open web, the social contract since the 90s has been that it’s…