In recent days, Microsoft appointed former EY global chairman and CEO Carmine Di Sibio to its board and saw its overhauled OpenAI partnership formalized with a reported US$38 billion cap on revenue-sharing payments, while continuing to broaden AI collaborations and infrastructure investments. These moves highlight Microsoft’s effort to balance a large, but now capped, economic exposure to OpenAI with a wider, more independent AI ecosystem spanning new startup partnerships and internal...