UK regulator looks at Google’s partnership with Anthropic
by Alex Hern UK technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PKM4)
CMA to consider whether deal with AI startup is a potential merger, which could prompt full investigation
The Competition and Markets Authority has begun a preliminary investigation into a partnership between Google and the AI startup Anthropic, marking the latest in a string of investigations into deals between big tech companies and smallerAI ones.
Google invested $2bn (about 1.56bn) into Anthropic in 2023, shortly after signing a cloud computing agreement with the startup, which develops the Claude LLM and chatbot.
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