FTC points at partnerships between AI leaders and cloud service providers, suggesting they could be subject to antitrust scrutiny

A staff report released Friday by the FTC suggested partnerships between OpenAI and Microsoft, and Amazon and Anthropic, ...

FTC Sues Microsoft over Activision Blizzard Merger, Seeks to Stop Acquisition

The FTC argues that the deal would be detrimental to the health of the game industry because Microsoft could make future ...

The FTC is investigating Microsoft for anticompetitive practices, some of which may have been directed at the government itself

Microsoft's 2021 deal with the government provided billions in security services, and essentially locked it in as a customer, ...

Soaring AI Spending Mocks DOJ and FTC Antitrust Attacks On “Big Tech”

As Netflix studio chief Dan Lin told the Journal, he only expected it to be a “niche hit.” Paraphrasing George Will, tomorrow ...
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U.S. regulators to open antitrust probes into Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI

The Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are set to open antitrust investigations into Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia, examining the powerful companies’ influence on the artificial ...
WRAL

FTC opens wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft

New York (CNN) — Microsoft is set to go under the microscope of the nation’s top antitrust watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission, which is launching a sweeping investigation into the tech giant’s ...
JD Supra

What’s Happening at the FTC During the Government Shutdown?

The federal government has been shut down for over a month. We previously reported on implications for the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) ...
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Congress Must Erect a Barrier Between the FTC and Foreign Antitrust

Shortly before the House adjourned for the August district work period, the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government of the House Appropriations Committee passed the Fiscal Year 2026 ...