Microsoft’s hiring of former Inflection AI staff prompts UK probe
By
Biju Kumar
Britain’s competition regulator has started a formal investigation into Microsoft’s hiring of some former staff of Inflection AI and its partnership with the startup, it said on Tuesday.
Over the past 18 months, regulators around the world have increasingly focused on potentially anti-competitive behaviour in the AI industry, with Microsoft’s various deals with smaller startups facing mounting scrutiny.