Google's AI Partnership With Anthropic Draws Regulatory Scrutiny in UK

Google genitor Alphabet (GOOGL) is facing scrutiny from U.K. regulators surrounding nan tech giant's business pinch artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), nan U.K.'s antitrust watchdog agency, said Tuesday it's examining really nan business betwixt Alphabet and Anthropic could person efficaciously resulted successful a merger business that would negatively effect title successful nan region.

Google's Anthropic Deal Is Latest Big Tech AI Partnership To Draw Regulatory Attention

The news comes aft a number of different partnerships betwixt large tech companies and AI startups person attracted scrutiny from regulators successful the U.K., the U.S., and the European Union.

Earlier this month, U.K. regulators opened an investigation into Microsoft's (MSFT) hiring of erstwhile Inflection AI labor and related agreements. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is besides reportedly investigating Microsoft's actions pinch Inflection AI to find if they violated antitrust rules for M&A.

Microsoft's ongoing partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI has drawn nan attraction of title regulators arsenic well.

Alphabet shares were small changed successful intraday trading Tuesday pursuing nan news. The banal has gained astir 21% since nan commencement of nan year.