I just read a Business Insider piece about how OpenAI, Oracle, Meta, Nvidia, and others are entangling in weird alliances, cloud deals, and strategic dependencies to stay afloat in the AI arms race.
It really got me thinking as we often talk about model safety or bias or adversarial attacks, but what about the system-level risks when the giants start depending on each other in tangled ways?
Some observations:
- When your “cloud provider” is also your competitor or investor, then how independent are your decisions really?
- Deals get made not just for innovation, but for survival. Meaning corners could be cut in safety, oversight, or even transparency.
- The bigger the infrastructure dependency web, the more fragile things become. If one node fails, it may trigger cascading failures in unexpected places.
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