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AI Weekly Issue #499: Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

Microsoft used its own developer conference to show it can live without OpenAI, Florida's attorney general sued OpenAI and went after Sam Altman personally, researchers and a new Workday product made plain that nobody trusts AI agents yet, and Alphabet raised a record $85 billion the same week the F

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•Microsoft used its own developer conference to show it can live without OpenAI, Florida's attorney general sued OpenAI and went after Sam Altman personally, researchers and a new Workday product made plain that nobody trusts AI agents yet, and Alphabet raised a record $85 billion the same week the F
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