UK clears Amazon partnership with Anthropic
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UK clears Amazon partnership with Anthropic

Britain's competition regulator said on Friday (27) that the partnership of artificial intelligence (IA) of Amazon with the startup anthropic will not be forwarded for further investigation as it was not under their jurisdiction.

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The Competition and Markets Authority said the partnership, which includes a $4 billion investment by Amazon in Anthropic, did not qualify for investigation under Britain's merger regulations.

“We welcome the UK Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) decision to acknowledge its lack of jurisdiction in relation to this collaboration,” an Amazon spokesperson said in response to the regulator’s decision.

The regulator also cleared a similar collaboration between Microsoft and Inflection AI.

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However, Alphabet's partnership with Anthropic is still under investigation.

“Anthropic is an independent company and our strategic partnerships and investor relationships do not diminish our corporate governance independence or freedom to collaborate with others,” an Anthropic spokesperson told Reuters on Friday.

Anthropic, co-founded by former executives of OpenAI and brothers Dario and Daniela Amodei, has received billions of dollars in investments from several technology giants.

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Antitrust regulators around the world have raised growing concerns about a number of deals struck between smaller tech startups and big tech companies.

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