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The rise of advanced artificial intelligence tools will act as “first-class fire accelerator” for anticompetitive behavior by Big Tech firms, Germany’s top antitrust official warned Wednesday.
The warning from Andreas Mundt, head of Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, comes as AI leaders such as Microsoft, Google and Nvidia face mounting scrutiny from watchdogs in the US and the European Union over concerns that they wield too much power over the market.
Powerful AI systems “will make all the problems only worse,”…