antitrust

Google’s proposed purchase of cloud-security vendor Wiz has triggered a fresh wave of industry pushback in Europe, with the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers in Europe (CISPE) warning regulators that the deal could produce a “multiplier effect” that locks customers into a single...

Google’s planned acquisition of cloud‑security specialist Wiz has set off a fresh round of European regulatory and industry pushback, with cloud trade body CISPE warning Brussels that the takeover could create a “multiplier effect” that locks customers into bundled cloud suites and gives Google...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to pause parts of its new WhatsApp Business Solution rules that would have barred rival AI chatbots from operating on the messaging platform, an interim decision that crystallizes a wider regulatory struggle over platform control, AI distribution...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend the WhatsApp Business Solution Terms that would have barred rival, general‑purpose AI chatbots from the messaging platform, legally pausing the platform’s planned January 15, 2026 enforcement and buying time for regulators to decide...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to immediately suspend new WhatsApp Business terms that would effectively bar rival AI chatbots from using the platform, escalating a regulatory showdown that now includes both national and European antitrust authorities and could reshape how...

Italy’s competition authority has ordered Meta to suspend WhatsApp’s new Business Solution Terms that would have excluded rival generative AI chatbots from operating on the platform, imposing interim measures while it conducts a full antitrust investigation into whether WhatsApp’s integration...

Meta’s plan to block rival generative AI chatbots from the WhatsApp Business interface in Italy has been temporarily halted by the country’s competition authority, which ordered a suspension of Meta’s October policy change while it conducts a full antitrust probe. Background WhatsApp’s parent...

Italy’s competition watchdog has ordered Meta to freeze the WhatsApp policy that would exclude rival AI chatbots in Italy, issuing an interim suspension while it completes a full antitrust probe into whether the messaging giant abused its dominant position by reserving WhatsApp as a distribution...

Meta’s move to exclude rival generative AI chatbots from WhatsApp has been paused in Italy as the country’s competition watchdog steps in, raising the stakes in a cross‑border clash between platform control and open AI competition. Background Since early 2025, WhatsApp has evolved from a pure...

Microsoft returned to a London antitrust tribunal this week to argue that a proposed collective action seeking up to £2.1 billion over Windows Server licensing should be blocked at the gate because the claimants — led by competition lawyer Maria Luisa Stasi — have not identified a viable legal...

Microsoft’s Copilot will stop responding inside WhatsApp on January 15, 2026, after WhatsApp’s owner revised its Business API terms to explicitly bar third‑party, general‑purpose large‑language‑model (LLM) chatbots from operating as primary services through the platform. Background WhatsApp’s...

Microsoft is back in the dock over cloud licensing, and this time the dispute sits at the intersection of antitrust law, enterprise procurement strategy, and the future shape of the cloud market itself — a dispute that could change how UK organisations buy and run Windows Server workloads...

Microsoft will tell judges at the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) that a proposed mass claim accusing it of anti‑competitive cloud licensing practices should be struck out because the plaintiffs’ methodology for proving common liability and quantifying loss is flawed, a move that puts the...

A new national survey shows AI chatbots have moved from novelty to routine in many U.S. teenagers’ lives: roughly two-thirds of teens report using chatbots and nearly three in ten say they use them every day. The finding arrives amid legal, regulatory, and industry shifts that make this moment...

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google’s use of online content to power and train artificial intelligence features, focusing on whether the company has been using publishers’ web pages and YouTube videos without fair compensation or meaningful choice, and...

Logitech’s CEO has just delivered one of the clearest public rebukes of the current rush toward stand‑alone “AI gadgets,” calling many of them “a solution looking for a problem” and doubling down on a different playbook: fold intelligence into the devices people already use rather than invent...

A federal judge has barred Google from forcing device makers and partners to distribute or bundle its Gemini generative-AI products as a condition of licensing other Google apps, a remedies decision that extends the court’s earlier finding that Google illegally maintained a search monopoly and...

Meta has begun a sweeping overhaul of account support across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, replacing scattered help pages and slow appeals with a centralized, AI-driven support hub and a new suite of business-facing AI tools — a move that promises faster recovery for hacked accounts but also...

The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into Meta’s recent decision to curtail how third‑party artificial intelligence services can operate on WhatsApp, signaling a major new front in Brussels’ effort to police platform power as AI features become central to consumer...

Meta’s decision to prohibit non‑Meta conversational assistants from operating through WhatsApp’s Business Solution has reshaped the battleground for everyday AI, setting a clear deadline—January 15, 2026—and provoking regulators, enterprises, and developers worldwide to scramble for...