Reuters - Microsoft, OpenAI tie-up comes under antitrust scrutiny

Europe Director Max von Thun was quoted in Reuters urging antitrust authorities to “move quickly to investigate these deals” and partnerships between dominant tech giants and AI companies.

Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI is under US and UK antitrust scrutiny, the British regulator and a media report said on Friday, following the startup's boardroom battle that led to the sudden ouster and return of CEO Sam Altman…

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Other regulatory probes could follow given the growing concentration in AI, said Max von Thun, Europe director at Open Markets Institute, a non-profit organisation focused on strengthening antitrust law.

"It is essential that antitrust authorities move quickly to investigate these deals, including unwinding them if necessary, to preserve competition and prevent this critical emerging technology from being monopolized."

European Union antitrust regulators said they have been following "very closely the situation of control."

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