Category: Google
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“The Future of AI belongs to those who combine technology with humanity”: France’s PM Macron at India AI Impact Summit 2026
India’s AI Impact Summit 2026, the first event of its kind in the global South, marked a pivotal moment in global technology governance. ai fray has broken down the key highlights of the event, which included discussions by top tech titans OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries.
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The CMA’s new cloud market report shows it continues to be a liability for the UK economy and to ignore its government’s ‘strategic steer’
The UK Competition & Markets Authority is on the wrong track. Instead of focusing on what would benefit the UK economy, it is essentially a tool for Google.
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Google criticizes EU overregulation while demanding even more of it: contradictory positions on DMA and cloud/AI bill
According to preliminary findings by the EU Commission, Google is out of compliance with the DMA. But it wants to go beyond the DMA to harm competitors.
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Cloud is now primarily about AI for Google, except when playing regulatory capture with UK CMA, EU Commission, other agencies
In yesterday’s earnings call, Google parent Alphabet discussed its Google Cloud Platform business as part of its overall AI business rather than AI as one of many fields of use for cloud computing.
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Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suit
Forcing Google to divest its investment in AI firms could seriously impact Anthropic’s ability to develop new products and remain competitive in the tight race at the AI frontier, Anthropic has complained.
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FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours
Just prior to the transition of power in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on AI partnerships.
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Every AI partnership is a merger now: UK CMA investigating last year’s Google-Anthropic deal
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched a Phase 1 merger inquiry into last year’s deal between Google and Anthropic.
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Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) launched with backing of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OpenAI, other key players
Under the auspices of OASIS, the Coalition for Secure AI (CoSAI) brings a number of major technology companies together to define methodologies for the secure development, deployment and use of AI systems.
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Google to UK CMA: “AI … not yet an important consideration for customers’ choice of cloud providers”
Google’s cloud computing division tells the UK CMA that “the impact of AI on the overall UK public cloud infrastructure market remains uncertain.”