Microsoft faces UK antitrust probe after hiring Inflection AI founders and employees

Microsoft is facing a full regulatory probe in the U.K. after the tech giant hired the core team behind Inflection AI, a U.S.-based OpenAI rival in which Microsoft had previously invested. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it’s launching a “phase 1” merger inquiry, which kicks off a 40-working day investigative period where…

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