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On the one side are those making public calls (looking at you, OpenAI’s Sam Altman) for new global regulatory agencies and wholesale AI legislation to curb the risks that so-called general AI, or some future all-knowing technology akin to a human brain, may pose sometime in the future. In Brussels, the European Commission’s antitrust experts approved the deal, arguing Microsoft’s purchase of Activision would increase competition in the console gaming market that is currently dominated by Sony and its PlayStation device.