How should regulators respond when a major chipmaker invests in competing AI developers that depend on advanced computing capacity?
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Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC has authorised investments of up to $500 million each in OpenAI and Anthropic. Its board published the resolutions on 10 November. The two AI companies are major developers of competing language models. The decision gives a crucial chip manufacturer a potential financial interest in both businesses. It prompts a debate about innovation funding and economic concentration.