U.K.'s competition authority says Microsoft's OpenAI partnership doesn't quality for investigation

Group 1 - The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the UK has determined that Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI does not warrant an investigation under the merger provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 [1][2] - The CMA concluded that Microsoft does not currently control OpenAI's commercial policy but instead has a significant level of material influence over it, indicating no change of control that would create a relevant merger situation [2] - The investigation into Microsoft's partnership with OpenAI began in December 2023, with Microsoft being a major investor, having invested nearly $14 billion into OpenAI [2] Group 2 - Microsoft integrates OpenAI's technologies into its Azure OpenAI Service and collaborates closely with OpenAI to develop products such as Copilot chatbot and GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant [2]