{"id":14217,"date":"2024-04-24T15:38:26","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:38:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:38:26","slug":"uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"UK competition watchdog steps up scrutiny of big tech\u2019s role in AI startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and Amazon asked to comment on tie-ups, a move that paves way for formal investigation<\/p>\n<p>The UK competition watchdog has stepped up its scrutiny of big tech involvement in artificial intelligence startups, asking for comment on three deals by Microsoft and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/competition-commission\">Competition and Markets Authority<\/a> (CMA) announced that it was examining Microsoft\u2019s investment in the French firm Mistral and the hiring of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/20\/microsoft-hires-deepmind-co-founder-ai-division-mustafa-suleyman\">the DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman<\/a> as head of the US company\u2019s new AI division. The watchdog is also scrutinising Amazon\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/sep\/25\/amazon-invest-openai-rival-anthropic-microsoft-chat-gpt\">$4bn (\u00a33.2bn) investment in the US AI firm Anthropic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/24\/uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups-cma-microsoft-amazon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5b9630ceb89d2208e7a973f3762d4daa4ea452b5\/0_186_4712_2829\/master\/4712.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a741601d43ee49d345f79b56c5d1483d\" title=\"UK competition watchdog steps up scrutiny of big tech\u2019s role in AI startups\" \/>Microsoft and Amazon asked to comment on tie-ups, a move that paves way for formal investigation<br \/>\nThe UK competition watchdog has stepped up its scrutiny of big tech involvement in artificial intelligence startups, asking for comment on three deals by Microsoft and Amazon.<br \/>\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it was examining Microsoft\u2019s investment in the French firm Mistral and the hiring of the DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman as head of the US company\u2019s new AI division. The watchdog is also scrutinising Amazon\u2019s $4bn (\u00a33.2bn) investment in the US AI firm Anthropic. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and Amazon asked to comment on tie-ups, a move that paves way for formal investigation The UK competition watchdog has stepped up its scrutiny of big tech involvement in artificial intelligence startups, asking for comment on three deals by Microsoft and Amazon. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced that it was examining Microsoft\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/24\/uk-competition-watchdog-steps-up-scrutiny-of-big-techs-role-in-ai-startups\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK competition watchdog steps up scrutiny of big tech\u2019s role in AI startups<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}