(not paying OpenAI to pretend to be client) https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-365-increases-price-dropping-vpn/ "Circular spending" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/the-ftc-is-concerned-about-big-tech-ai-startup-partnerships-microsoft-open-ai-raises-alarms
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"Circular spending" means that Microsoft 'invests' 10 billion dollars or whatever in OpenAI for OpenAI to become a "client" of Azure and "buy" from Microsoft, driving up " revenue" and giving a false sense of demand; such accounting is illegal and FTC is being gutted, so the illegal accounting will take longer to unravel