Topic: antitrust investigation
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EU Probes Meta for Blocking AI Chatbots on WhatsApp
European regulators have launched an antitrust investigation into Meta, concerned its policy restricting third-party AI chatbots on WhatsApp illegally stifles innovation while favoring its own Meta AI product. The policy change would block popular AI tools like those from OpenAI from using WhatsA...
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EU Investigates SAP for Antitrust Violations in Software Support
The European Commission has launched an antitrust investigation into SAP's software support services, examining whether the company abuses its dominant market position to impose restrictive contract terms in violation of EU competition law. Investigators are focusing on four practices, including ...
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Microsoft Dodges EU Probe by Unbundling Teams from Office
Microsoft has agreed to separate Teams from its Office and Microsoft 365 suites to avoid an EU antitrust investigation, offering versions without Teams at a lower price and improving interoperability with rivals. The decision resolves a multi-year probe initiated after a complaint from Slack, whi...
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Character.AI Names Ex-Meta VP as New CEO
Character.AI has named former Meta executive Karandeep Anand as its new CEO, aiming to balance rapid growth with user safety concerns, particularly for younger users. The leadership change follows co-founder Noam Shazeer's departure to Google, which triggered a federal antitrust investigation int...
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Official AI Licensing Standard Now Requires Payment for Scraping
The Really Simple Licensing 1.0 (RSL) standard allows publishers to set rules and require payment from AI companies that scrape their web content, evolving beyond the basic access controls of robots.txt files. Supported by major infrastructure firms like Cloudflare, RSL enables publishers to sele...
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