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Satya Nadella is calling out what he sees as a double standard inside the AI industry, and he isn't being subtle about it. The Microsoft chief is pushing back on competitors who he says benefit from open ecosystems while quietly lobbying to restrict others. It's a familiar tension in tech, and Nadella's willingness to name it publicly raises the stakes considerably.
That friction connects neatly to a broader argument making rounds this week — that open source software is not the monopoly-proof refuge many developers assume it to be. The piece argues that when a single company controls the dominant tools, the license matters less than the leverage. Concentration of power, it turns out, doesn't care much about ideology.
And on the question of who holds power over AI more broadly, a new survey finds sixty-nine percent of Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half their stock into a public wealth fund. Support drops when Bernie Sanders' name is attached to the proposal, but the underlying sentiment is clear — people want a stake in the systems being built around them.
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