Indeed.

Is that legal?
Doesn’t the UK have international obligations?

The old Microsoft playbook of get the businesses via the consumer backdoor isn’t one that is going to pan out the way they think.

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Then there's all those pension funds on both sides of the Atlantic with investments in the 'Magnificent Seven' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tec...

Too big to fail?

And let's not even get into the dependence that the UK and many European governments have on these companies for their general day to day operations. That AWS went down for a day the other week and effected so many services...

Too big to fail?

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Of those ten companies, eight are US HQ'd. Broadly, there is an interdependence between the chip makers, compute providers and 'AI' developers that is likely to create a domino effect. The US economy is precariously positioned should this fail.

But is it too big to fail?

Exactly. And scientists, engineers, artists, writers, musicians, film producers, tv producers, all the underpaid workers in developing countries who have reviewed (often horrific) images and text for the models, the climate...

Not a word I use often, but it's one of the few that fits, it's sinful.