UK Competition Regulators to Investigate Microsoft and Amazon AI Deals
by Tech Times
Tech Times— UK regulators will scrutinize partnerships between Microsoft and Amazon to review potential AI competition issues.
Japan Today—Microsoft and Amazon face scrutiny from UK competition watchdog over recent AI deals. British competition regulators said Wednesday they'll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry. The Competition and Markets Authority said it's looking into Microsoft's partnership with France's Mistral AI and the company's hiring of key staff from
Mobile World Live—UK watchdog targets Microsoft, Amazon AI deals. The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Microsoft and Amazon’s dealings with AI start-ups, inviting comment from market players to determine if recent partnerships have the potential to hurt competition in the country.
ETtech.com—Microsoft and Amazon's AI partnerships draw UK watchdog scrutiny. Britain's competition watchdog said on Wednesday it was seeking comments on the AI partnerships between Microsoft and Mistral AI, as well as between Amazon and Anthropic. The Competition and Markets Authority also said it wanted to hear the views of third parties on Microsoft's hiring of former employees of Inflection AI and related arrangements. Microsoft last month appointed DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as the head of a newly created consumer AI unit and hired several employees of his...