UK Probes Microsoft Over Hiring Inflection AI Staff
TL;DR
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether Microsoft's hiring of Mustafa Suleyman and other key employees from AI startup Inflection constitutes a merger that could reduce competition in the AI sector. The CMA will decide by September 11 whether to proceed with a more in-depth "Phase 2" investigation. Microsoft maintains that the hiring promotes competition and is not a merger.
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