The partnership that ushered in our age of AI is showing some major cracks. OpenAI wants sugar-daddy Microsoft to loosen its control on its AI products. It also wants Microsoft's blessing to let it become a for-profit company, which OpenAI has been planning for a while now. But the negotiations have turned ugly. And OpenAI is so frustrated with its benefactor that behind the scenes, executives are considering the "nuclear option": going to court and accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive practices. That could bring down a review by federal regulators and a public campaign railing against the tech monolith. An anti-trust […]