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    UK CMA Orders Google AI Search Attribution, Opt-Out, and Reporting Changes

    UK competition officials on June 3, 2026, ordered Google to give publishers clearer attribution in AI-generated search results, new controls to opt out of AI summaries without losing ordinary search visibility, and nine months to implement the full package. The decision is not just a tweak to...
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    CMA probes Microsoft’s office stack as AI and M365 power face UK digital rules

    The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority has moved from cloud infrastructure into the broader Microsoft productivity stack, opening a strategic market status investigation that could reshape how Windows, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot are packaged, licensed, and interoperable in Britain...
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    CMA SMS Probe Into Microsoft: Copilot, Licensing and UK Enterprise Lock-In

    Britain’s competition watchdog is preparing to put Microsoft at the center of its newest digital markets test, and the implications could reach far beyond licensing footnotes and procurement paperwork. The Competition and Markets Authority has signaled that it will open a Strategic Market Status...
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    CMA to Probe Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, Teams and Copilot Licensing in UK

    Microsoft’s business software empire is under fresh scrutiny in the UK, and this time the Competition and Markets Authority is looking beyond cloud infrastructure into the broader productivity stack that underpins day-to-day work for millions of organisations. The regulator says it will launch a...