[philipallstar]

Can you give an example of what you mean?

[shimman]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/12/06/academi...

https://archive.ph/0MzkZ

https://www.wired.com/story/top-ai-researchers-financial-bac...

I live in Cambridge, MA there are dozens of these relationships going on; big tech offers lucrative access to cutting edge hardware in return for closed research.

Just more insidious ways on how big tech requires massive amounts of welfare to exist and persist.

[philipallstar]

I might be misreading, but at least the first article looks more like private companies subsidising public research, and not the other way round.