UK antitrust cops thrust probe into Microsoft, Inflection AI merger

UK antitrust regulators today announced the beginning of a merger inquiry into Microsoft's cash deal with startup Inflection AI, which included poaching employees.  The Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) concern stems from the hiring of Inflection AI cofounders Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, along with "several …

[Anonymous Coward]

MS is starting to sound more like a SovCit the more this stuff goes on. "This isn't a merger I am simply transporting currency into an account and coincidentally getting control of a company"

[Snake]

But I wonder what is the difference between MS's acquisitions and that of most any other company, besides being MS? Acquiring tech via purchase is common and far easier / faster than developing from scratch, and is therefore somewhat common.

[IGotOut]

Have you heard of OpenAI by any chance?

If not you may be shocked to find they have a teenty weeny investment in it.