The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which is in charge of antitrust regulation, is investigating a partnership between tech giant Alphabet and artificial intelligence startup Anthropic. It will launch a probe Friday (Oct. 25) that aims to determine whether the deal could undermine competition...
Google wants to pause a ruling requiring it to open its Play Store to rivals. The tech giant argues that U.S. District Judge James Donato’s injunction order from earlier this month would hurt its business and bring “serious safety, security and privacy risks into the...
The U.S. government is asking a federal district judge to compel Google to break up its core businesses. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a Tuesday court filing that “structural remedies” are on the table. This term, often used to describe the breakup of a company to...
A judge unsealed a Sept. 30 ruling that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) antitrust lawsuit against Amazon can proceed, while the claims of some states were dismissed. Amazon asked U.S. District Judge John Chun to dismiss the case in December 2023, but Chun said in...
Competition authorities and policymakers have a role in addressing competitive threats in artificial intelligence-related technologies, products and applications, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division said in Friday (Oct. 4) press releases about their participation in the G7 Competition Authorities and...
Microsoft’s size and scope has gotten the attention of Germany’s antitrust regulator. The Federal Cartel Office announced Monday (Sept. 30) that it was placing the tech giant under closer scrutiny in the form of a five-year “extended abuse control” measure. The effort comes as Microsoft’s...
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Friday (Sept. 27) that it decided it will not further investigate whether Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic created a relevant merger situation that could result in a lessening of competition. The decision followed the CMA’s invitation for...
Following through on reports circulated Monday (Sept. 23), the U.S. Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Visa, accusing it of stifling competition in the debit card market and suppressing alternatives. The Tuesday (Sept. 24) complaint alleged that Visa employed exclusionary contracts and anticompetitive...
The U.S. Justice Department reportedly plans to file an antitrust suit against Visa as early as Tuesday (Sept. 24). The agency plans to allege that the company illegally monopolized the U.S. debit card market through a range of anticompetitive acts, Bloomberg reported Monday (Sept. 23),...