When Microsoft dropped its observer seat on OpenAI’s board last week—and Apple abandoned reported plans to gain such a seat—the uptick in regulatory scrutiny around the AI sector was a clear culprit. And the scope of that scrutiny just widened further.
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator, the Competition and Markets Authority, yesterday gave notice that it’s in the early stages of probing Microsoft’s March hiring of key staff from AI startup Inflection, which came with $650 million in licensing fees for Inflection.
