Microsoft and OpenAI are engaged in tense negotiations that could unravel one of the most important alliances in AI and fundamentally reorder the industry. Why it matters: Microsoft has injected billions of dollars in OpenAI and made it a cornerstone of its AI strategy,

OpenAI and Microsoft may be breaking up, potentially leaving Microsoft's Copilot without a, uh, copilot, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.The two tech giants have been in a symbiotic relationship for six years,

The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI may run to the federal government and accuse Microsoft—its own sugar daddy—of anti-competitive practices. Were this to happen, OpenAI execs claim they would seek a federal regulatory review of the terms of the contract between them and Microsoft,