UK's CMA Launches Merger Inquiry Into Amazon Partnership With Anthropic

Amazon's partnership with artificial intelligence company Anthropic is being investigated by the United Kingdom's competition and markets regulator. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched a merger inquiry after collecting comments in April and May on whether the partnership could result in a lessening of competition in the market, according to a Thursday (Aug. 8) update. The CMA said in a commencement notice that it has sufficient information to begin an investigation to decide whether it shou ...