UK competition regulator clears Alphabet's investment in Anthropic

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has okayed Alphabet’s partnership and investment in AI rival Anthropic, concluding that it doesn’t qualify for investigation under current merger regulations. The announcement comes a month after the CMA revealed it was launching a formal “stage 1” probe into Google’s parent’s various investments in Anthropic, a three-year-old San Francisco-based startup that develops large language models (LLMs) and an associated chatbot called Claude, which is something a ...