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UK’s competition regulator says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t qualify for investigation


U.K.'s competition authority says that Microsoft's OpenAI partnership doesn't quality for investigation under the country's anticompetitive practices law.

Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. The tech giant is a top investor in OpenAI, having poured nearly $14 billion into the AI startup. Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence.

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