Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2B euro AI push

Re:Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2B euro AI push by dalex00 on Saturday February 17, 2024 @07:20AM (#39408791)

Conspiracy view... Maybe just an indirect bribe so German government votes in favour for the tech giant on EU level laws...

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Re:Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2B euro AI push by lifestyleguru on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:00AM (#39409460)

"Legal bribes" with dedicated budgets and departments at corporations are absolutely a thing (lookup Siemens), only in Europe we avoid the word "lobbying". It's not conspiracy at all.

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Re:Microsoft bets on Germany in 3.2B euro AI push by rcbdev on Saturday February 17, 2024 @09:23AM (#39409646)

"Kickbacks" is the term used internally at Siemens for this modus. They only document it well for their CEE subsidiaries but the fish rots at the head.

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