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    U.S. antitrust enforcers will investigate leading AI companies Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI

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    The Federal Trade Commission building is seen, Jan. 28, 2015, in Washington. U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

    By Matt O'Brien

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    U.S. antitrust enforcers have decided to investigate the roles Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI have played in the artificial intelligence boom, according to people familiar with the pending actions.

    The Department of Justice will launch an investigation of chipmaker Nvidia, while the Federal Trade Commission will scrutinize close business partners Microsoft and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, according to two people who were not authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigations and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

    Nvidia and OpenAI declined to comment Thursday. Microsoft didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

    The New York Times was first to report Thursday on a deal between antitrust regulators at the two agencies.

    Emboldened by President Joe Biden's push for tougher scrutiny of Big Tech's business practices, federal officials have signaled for more than a year that they've been watching out for monopolistic behavior in the rapidly advancing industry of chatbots and other generative AI products that can produce human-like text, imagery and sound.

    Lina Khan, chair of the FTC, said in January that the agency would scrutinize deals that "enable dominant firms to exert undue influence or gain privileged access in ways that could undermine fair competition."

    The FTC said at the time it was opening an inquiry into the relationships between leading artificial intelligence startups such as OpenAI and Anthropic and cloud computing providers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft that have invested billions of dollars into them.

    Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has been particularly close, supplying the smaller San Francisco company with the vast computing resources needed to train generative AI systems like ChatGPT.

    The entire AI industry has also relied heavily on Nvidia's specialized semiconductors to power AI applications. Demand for its AI chips has led Nvidia's stock to soar, surpassing $3 trillion in market value Wednesday and making it one of the most valuable companies in the S&P 500.

    Matt O'Brien is an AP technology writer. AP writer Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.

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    Christine Choy, indie filmmaker who led seminal documentary on the killing of Vincent Chin, dies at 73

    Friday, December 12, 2025
    In this photo provided by Film at Lincoln Center, filmmaker Christine Choy attends a screening of her film, "Who Killed Vincent Chin?" at the 59th New York Film Festival in 2021. (Dan Rodriguez/Film at Lincoln Center via AP)

    Christine Choy, a trailblazer for Asian Americans in independent film and whose documentary on the fatal beating of Vincent Chin was nominated for an Academy Award, has died. She was 73.

    Choy died Sunday, according to a statement from JT Takagi, executive director of Third World Newsreel, a filmmaking collective Choy helped establish in the 1970s. No cause of death was given.

    "She was a prolific filmmaker who made significant films that helped form our Asian American and American film history," Takagi said on the organization's website.

    Chin, a Chinese American who grew up in Detroit, was celebrating his bachelor party in 1982 when two white auto workers attacked him. At that time, Japanese auto companies were being blamed for job losses in the U.S. auto manufacturing industry. The attackers were motivated by their assumption Chin was Japanese. His death and the lack of prison time for the two assailants is considered a galvanizing moment for Asian Americans fighting anti-Asian hate.

    Renee Tajima-Peña, co-director of "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," met Choy around 1980 through Third World Newsreel. They decided to collaborate on a documentary a year after Chin's death after seeing how little coverage it received.

    Tajima-Peña recalls bonding with Choy and other crew during freezing Detroit winter nights while waiting for witnesses in Chin's death and evenings spent with Chin's mother's over home-cooked meals.

    "We were in constant motion during the production with Chris always the picture of cool — sunglasses, stylishly slim, cigarette in hand. And yes she was brash and outspoken — her cigarettes may have had filters but her language didn't," Tajima-Peña said in an email to The Associated Press on Friday. "But, her... Read More

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