antitrust scrutiny

  1. Microsoft Poaches Meta AI Talent with Mega Pay Packages

    Microsoft’s latest hiring playbook has moved from raises and restricted stock to what looks like an all-out bidding war: internal documents obtained by reporters show the company is actively targeting engineers and researchers at Meta with multimillion- and—at times—near–multibillion-dollar...
  2. GitHub Joins Microsoft CoreAI: Impact on Copilot, AI, and Developers

    GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, announced he will step down and — in a move that redefines the platform’s relationship with Microsoft — GitHub will cease operating as a plainly independent subsidiary and will be folded into Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, bringing the world’s largest code host...
  3. Microsoft Unbundles Teams from Office to Address EU Antitrust Concerns

    Microsoft’s decades-long dominance in the workplace productivity sector faces fresh scrutiny as it seeks to sidestep a potentially hefty European Union antitrust fine by offering to unbundle its collaborative Teams app from its ubiquitous Office suite. The move—first reported by Reuters—is a...