(Bloomberg) -- The US Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with a sprawling antitrust probe of Microsoft ... a confidential investigation. The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil ...

The current investigation was launched last year by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC ... the probe will likely center on whether Microsoft’s close relationship with OpenAI violates antitrust ...

Democratic lawmakers question whether Big Tech AI partnerships function as “de facto mergers” that evade regulatory scrutiny.

French antitrust regulators levied a fine of EUR ... to slap fines on EU countries fining US companies. The FTC sent Microsoft a so-called civil investigative demand, which is similar to a ...

The letters question whether these partnerships give Microsoft and Google privileged or exclusive access to AI models, raising red flags about reduced market competition and elevated barriers for new ...

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The FTC is simultaneously conducting a broad probe of Microsoft that was initiated under the Biden administration but has been carried on by Trump’s appointees at the agency. So far, neither of those ...

while Meta Platforms does the same in the U.S. Trump's FTC advances broad antitrust probe of Microsoft: Report Microsoft, whose shares were down more than 1% on Wednesday, said, while it may ...

Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in Albuquerque, N.M.

She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy ... how tech founders interact with the agency, and the FTC chair took the opportunity to expand on his perspective ...

US Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look into a $16.5 billion ... saying she is concerned it could have antitrust implications. The transaction – first ...