{"id":1007336,"date":"2026-05-08T10:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1007336"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T05:16:21","slug":"doj-antitrust-head-warns-dealmakers-not-to-mislead-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/08\/doj-antitrust-head-warns-dealmakers-not-to-mislead-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ antitrust head warns dealmakers not to mislead on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust head on Thursday warned companies against trying to misleadingly use artificial intelligence disruption as \u200ca \u2060defense in \u2060merger reviews without providing evidence. <\/p>\n<p>Acting \u200bAssistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi oversees the \u200bDOJ&#8217;s work reviewing mergers and said that merging parties \u200bare welcome to \u2060engage with \u200chis division at \u200bany point \u200bin the process. <\/p>\n<p>However, &#8220;we \u2060know when you are trying to \u200bmislead us,&#8221; he said at \u200ban event at New York University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s antitrust head on Thursday warned companies against trying to misleadingly use artificial intelligence disruption as \u200ca \u2060defense in \u2060merger reviews without providing evidence. Acting \u200bAssistant Attorney General Omeed Assefi oversees the \u200bDOJ&#8217;s work reviewing mergers and said that merging parties \u200bare welcome to \u2060engage with \u200chis division at \u200bany point \u200bin the process. However, &#8220;we \u2060know when you are trying to \u200bmislead us,&#8221; he said at \u200ban event at New York University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007358,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007336\/revisions\/1007358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}