Category: Microsoft
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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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Microsoft makes digital commitments to Europe: open access to AI, cloud infrastructure, pledges to fight for European customers in U.S. court
The commitments include a promise to uphold Europe’s digital resilience regardless of geopolitical and trade volatility, Microsoft has announced.
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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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OpenAI, Microsoft defeat parts of NYT’s, other news industry plaintiffs’ copyright lawsuits at earliest stage; but summary judgment will be bigger
OpenAI and Microsoft have achieved a partial victory over copyright infringement lawsuits brought by the New York Times and other plaintiffs from the news industry, but the key battle will be summary judgment.
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UK antitrust authority CMA finds OpenAI is indeed not controlled by Microsoft, closes “maybe merger” inquiry after more than a year
The UK’s competition watch dog has finally found that Microsoft indeed has not acquired OpenAI, and therefore closed its merger investigation.
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Musk request for preliminary injunction against OpenAI denied in Northern District of California
Elon Musk, Shivon Zillis and xAI’s attempt to stop OpenAI from converting to a for-profit entity has been denied by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers after the plaintiffs failed to meet their burden of proof. However, the court is prepared to offer an expedited schedule on the “core claims driving their litigation” based on the more…
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Adjustments to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and Stargate launch mean more openness, (even) less reason for competition concern
Context: Various antitrust authorities have recently been looking into strategic partnerships between large technology companies (particularly, but not exclusively, cloud service providers) and AI providers. The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), which is presently undergoing a leadership change because the UK government is worried about the implications of the agency’s regulatory zeal for economic…
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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.