[dbuser99]

The kind of pressure microsoft is able to exert here is mind blowing. The hero worshipping they were able to cultivate, with so much media pressure, they truly control our lives

[replwoacause]

The OpenAI board just made it too easy for them. Any competent investor would have done the same. It was a gimme.

[dehrmann]

> The kind of pressure microsoft is able to exert here is mind blowing.

Remember the time Elon Musk bought a social media company accidentally as a joke? That's what 1/4 trillion dollars lets you do. 10x that and you have the power of Microsoft.