In case you missed it, Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI is in the clear, at least with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The antitrust watchdog has been looking into the multi ...

The investigation by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) wanted to dig deeper into whether there was any change ...

Britain’s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said on Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for an investigation under the merger ...

The U.K.’s Competition ... review under the UK’s merger control regime.” Despite the CMA’s ruling, the regulator was quick to clarify that the decision does not mean Microsoft’s AI ...

Regulators in the UK and EU have been increasingly looking at the AI partnerships and investments that Big Tech are making. The CMA also signaled interest in Microsoft’s Mistral AI partnership b ...

Changing nature of the relationship between the two might have been ‘just the lever the CMA needed to close the investigation’ says analyst. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA ...

UK Regulator ... joined Microsoft in March and took “several” coworkers with them. This included Jordan Hoffman, who now fronts Microsoft’s AI Hub in London. The CMA opened an inquiry ...

In its findings, the CMA notes that Microsoft hired “almost all of Inflection’s team,” including two of ... on the world of UK and European startups. He also wrote about other subjects ...

Microsoft only bought Inflection’s IP and hired away its key staff, but that’s still enough to constitute a merger, a UK regulator ruled ... and Markets Authority (CMA) published a summary ...

UK Clears Alphabet ... Inflection by Microsoft was deemed a relevant merger by the CMA in September. Still, it did not pose a significant threat to competition. Inflection’s proprietary ...

Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices are under scrutiny from regulators across the world, not just the CMA, and are also subject of a legal challenge in the UK. On the matter, the CMA said ...