Microsoft’s absence from OpenAI’s Stargate announcement follows months of tension between the companies and signals a new era in which the longtime partners will be less reliant on each other. At a White House press conference,

As Oracle (ORCL) joins the Stargate Project, a new $500B AI infrastructure initiative, are there risks to Microsoft (MSFT) - OpenAI partnership. Read more here.

Such announcements aren’t without political risks, as OpenAI learned when Trump adviser Elon Musk criticized the deal on the social network he owns.