UK's CMA Decides Amazon-Anthropic Partnership Won't Lessen Competition in AI

The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said Friday (Sept. 27) that it decided it will not further investigate whether Amazon's partnership with Anthropic created a relevant merger situation that could result in a lessening of competition. The decision followed the CMA's invitation for comments on the partnership from any interest parties from April 24 to May 9 and its launch of a merger inquiry Aug. 8, the regulator said in a Friday update. The CMA found that the partnership of Amazon ...