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UK regulator closes Microsoft / Inflection antitrust probe.
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) executive director Joel Bamford said that while Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff “does qualify as a merger under UK law,” the transaction was unlikely to significantly reduce competition in the consumer chatbot market.
Additional details about the shuttered investigation are available here.
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