FTC chair Lina Khan plans to go after Big Tech’s ‘mob boss’ instead of ‘the henchmen at the bottom’—targeting AI giants OpenAI, Microsoft, and Nvidia

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U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan isn’t mincing words in her crusade against big tech companies, training her ire on their even bigger AI goals using a mob metaphor this week. Speaking at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC conference in Washington, D.C on Tuesday, Khan said the number of cases the FTC brings isn’t as important as the type.

“One thing that’s been important for me is to make sure that we’re actually looking at where we see the biggest harm,” she explained. “Where do we see players that are systematically driving these illegal behaviors? Being able to go after the ‘mob boss’ is going to be more effective than going after the henchman at the bottom.”