Microsoft just hired the leads at the hot startup Inflection AI, after being the lead investor in their $1.3 billion effort ot build a "more personal AI." Its two co-founders will now work at Microsoft's newly-formed AI division, as Inflection tries to keep going without Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simon.

Microsoft's investing in AI in a huge way, but it's doing so with a very clear goal beyond capitalizing on the AI boom: avoiding the kinds of antitrust actions that have hounded the company in the past. But the question remains: can it actually do that while investing so heavily in OpenAI and scooping up other companies' talent?

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