antitrust

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...

Google Cloud has formally withdrawn the antitrust complaint it lodged with the European Commission in September 2024 over Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices, a tactical retreat that coincides with the Commission’s own decision to open market investigations into cloud computing services —...

Google’s quiet withdrawal of its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a consequential tactical pivot: the company has stepped out of a one‑on‑one regulatory fight and handed the contest to Brussels, where the European Commission’s newly launched market investigations...

Microsoft’s decision to pull Copilot off WhatsApp is the latest and most visible sign that the era of distributing full‑featured large language model (LLM) assistants inside third‑party messaging platforms is colliding with platform policy, infrastructure limits, and emerging regulatory caution...

Google’s cloud antitrust complaint against Microsoft has been quietly folded into a much larger regulatory test of the industry: the company has formally withdrawn its EU complaint after Brussels opened a trio of Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations into cloud computing services...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s Azure cloud services is a strategic pivot that hands the dispute over cloud licensing and alleged vendor lock‑in to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement architecture — a move that reframes a...

Google has quietly withdrawn its formal antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the European Union, a tactical pivot that hands the dispute over cloud competition to Brussels’ broader Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations and reframes the fight from private litigation to public...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing is the latest twist in a transatlantic tussle over the future of cloud competition — and it comes as the European Commission has opened formal market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure...

Google’s surprise withdrawal of its year‑old EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft hands the baton to Brussels’ newly launched, DMA‑driven cloud market investigations and reframes the rivalry over cloud portability from bilateral litigation to a systemic regulatory fight with potentially...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft has converted a heated bilateral tussle into a full-blown regulatory showdown — and it did so on purpose. The complaint Google filed in September 2024, which accused Microsoft of licensing and commercial practices that...

Google’s decision to withdraw its 2024 antitrust complaint against Microsoft marks a tactical pivot in a broader contest over cloud market rules and regulatory remedies after the European Commission launched a separate, wider Digital Markets Act (DMA)–style investigation into cloud computing...

Google has formally withdrawn its antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud licensing practices in the European Union, citing the European Commission’s recent launch of broader market investigations into cloud computing under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The move shifts Google’s fight from...

Google’s abrupt withdrawal of its EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is the latest pivot in a fast-escalating regulatory battle over hyperscale cloud power — and it signals a strategic shift by a major rival to let European regulators wield the full force of the Digital...

Microsoft’s latest in‑product marketing tactic — a targeted Bing prompt offering 1,300 Microsoft Rewards points to users who search for “Chrome” while using Edge on Windows 11 — has reignited a long‑running debate over whether an operating‑system vendor can lawfully, or ethically, steer users...

Australia’s competition regulator has launched a Federal Court action accusing Microsoft of misleading roughly 2.7 million Australian consumers after the company bundled its Copilot generative‑AI features into Microsoft 365 and raised subscription prices — and the case now tests where...