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Microsoft's hire of start-up staff probed as possible merger
If the CMA finds there has been a 'merger' between Microsoft and Inflection, it will investigate further.
Chief among them is Microsoft's multi-billion dollar backing of OpenAI, which enabled it to bring popular chatbot ChatGPT to its search engine Bing. Its chief executive Sarah Cardell said in a speech the watchdog had identified an "interconnected web" of AI partnerships involving Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon. "Without fair, open, and effective competition and strong consumer protection, underpinned by these principles, we see a real risk that the full potential of organisations or individuals to use AI to innovate and disrupt will not be realised, nor its benefits shared widely across society," she said.
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