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UK antitrust watchdog clears Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership.
The Competition and Markets Authority has ruled that the relationship between the two companies “does not qualify for investigation” under merger rules. The CMA said in 2023 that it was assessing whether Microsoft’s $13 billion investment into the AI startup gave it de facto control over OpenAI policy.
While now satisfied that it doesn’t, the CMA says that Microsoft “instead exerts a high level of material influence over that policy.”
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