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Microsoft, Inflection

UK CMA OKs Microsoft’s Hiring of Inflection Team, But Designates it a Merger

The UK CMA concluded its investigation of Microsoft's hiring of key staff members from Inflection. And it has good news and bad news.

Business Insider · 4d

UK's Antitrust Regulator Clears Microsoft, Inflection AI Partnership

The U.K.'s competition regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority or CMA, has cleared Microsoft's (MSFT) deal with the

devdiscourse · 4d

Microsoft Cleared to Hire Inflection AI Staff in Major Regulatory Move

British regulators have approved Microsoft's hiring of key personnel from Inflection AI, including co-founder Mustafa Suleyman. The investigation concluded that the hires do not pose a significant threat to competitive dynamics in the UK’s AI market.

Computerworld · 4d

Microsoft-Inflection deal is a merger, but that’s OK, says UK

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.

YAHOO!News · 4d

UK regulator greenlights Microsoft's Inflection acquihire, but also designates it a merger

The U.K.’s antitrust regulator says that the tech titan's high-profile acquihire of the team behind AI startup Inflection doesn't cause competition concerns, and thus it won't be pursuing a full-scale investigation.

TipRanks on MSN · 3d

Microsoft’s Inflection AI Deal Gets Regulatory Green Light

Microsoft ($MSFT) has received a green light from the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for its partnership with Inflection AI, an

Cryptopolitan on MSN · 3d

UK regulators clear Microsoft-Inflection AI deal after competition review

UK regulators clear Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff, ruling no harm to competition. Tech giants like Amazon and Google also boost AI investments.

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The Microsoft Activision Deal Wil Drag On Because Of The UK’s CMA

That would be the UK’s CMA, where Microsoft is trying to hammer out a new compromise that averts the cloud-based concerns that the CMA had, which caused it to block the deal there. As such ...

Computer Weekly4d

CMA clears Microsoft and Inflection AI transaction

Microsoft’s hiring of the Inflection AI teams is regarded as a merger under UK law, but this deal has not curbed competition in the artificial intelligence market.

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UK further restricts Microsoft and Activision merge

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA ... Microsoft and Activision criticised the decision and said they would appeal, with an Activision official saying at the time it showed the UK was ...

Business Insider2d

UK's CMA Objects To Google's Anti-Competitive Ad Tech Practices

(RTTNews) - UK's Competition and Markets Authority or CMA announced that it has provisionally found that tech major Google LLC, owned by Alphabet Inc., has abused its dominant positions through ...

UK regulators clear Microsoft's hiring of AI startup's workers

Microsoft's hiring of almost all of startup Inflection AI's workers was cleared by UK regulators after an investigation was ...

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Microsoft And Apple Come Head To Head Again About Cloud Gaming Services On iOS

It’s no secret that Apple and Microsoft fail to agree on a lot of matters and cloud gaming services across iOS are the ...

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Microsoft close to owning Activision Blizzard following CMA approval

In a significant turn of events, Microsoft's bid to acquire Activision Blizzard for a whopping $68.7 billion is seeing light at the end of the tunnel. The UK's Competition and Markets Authority ...

UK competition watchdog clears Microsoft’s hiring of AI startup’s core staff

British regulators have cleared Microsoft’s hiring of key staff from startup Inflection AI, saying the deal wouldn’t stifle competition in the country’s artificial intelligence market.

Microsoft is turning to AI to make its workplace more inclusive

At the beginning of 2023, Microsoft found itself in a PR firestorm. The company was working to demonstrate its progress in ...

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Microsoft claims Apple's stringent guidelines are barring cloud gaming services from the App Store: "Apple’s IAP commission fee is set at a level that is neither economic…

Apple's new guidelines for its App Store still feature several roadblocks, preventing Microsoft from running its Cloud Gaming ...

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