Category: Competition Enforcement
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U.S., EU and UK antitrust enforcers issue joint statement underscoring their focus on Generative AI matters
The two U.S. antitrust agencies (DOJ and FTC) have signed a joint statement with the European Commission and the UK Competition & Markets Authority that stresses the importance of competition enforcement in connection with Generative AI.
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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.”
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UK CMA influenced heavily by Amazon, Google in software licensing part of cloud services market investigation
The UK Competition & Market Authority mentioned AI in connection with its cloud services market investigation, but the focus is drifting in all sorts of different directions.
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UK CMA cloud market investigation touches on AI-related trends, but prioritizes discounts, committed spend agreements, egress fees
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released several updated documents last week concerning the state of play in its cloud service market investigation.
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UK antitrust regulator explains: any AI partnership can fall under merger law, though Microsoft-Mistral not being investigated for now
The UK Competition & Markets Authority determined not to review Microsoft’s partnership with Mistral further for the time being, but spells out criteria under which any Big Tech-AI partnership can potentially be reviewed under strict merger law.
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UK competition authority CMA launches triad of AI investigations: Microsoft-Mistral, Microsoft-Inflection, Amazon-Anthropic
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched inquiries into Microsoft’s partnership with French AI company Mistral, its recruitment of former Inflection employees, and Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic.
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UK regulator’s update paper on AI Foundation Models: understandable fears, but unsupported by evidence
While the CMA’s general concerns over dynamics previously seen in technology markets are legitimate, the update paper, on top of generally recognizing the enormous benefits of AI innovation, summarizes trends that could also be interpreted as signs of fierce competition among large technology corporations that creates opportunities for newcomers.
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French antitrust authority Adlc launches consultation on AI: focus on key inputs and power in adjacent markets
The French competition authority has launched a consultation (deadline: March 22) on AI with a focus on advantages for those who control key inputs or adjacent markets.
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Federal Trade Commission’s AI-related inquiries have 360° angle, policy conference closer to 180°
The FTC sent out discovery letters to Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, Google and Anthropic about strategic partnerships. The quality of its Tech Summit was very good, but the speakers were all on the progressive side.
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Hungarian competition authority launches market investigation into AI; Portuguese counterpart published paper in November
National competition authorities of three Europan countries have looked or are still looking into AI; the UK CMA, the Portuguese AdC and now the Hungarian GVH.