2024-09-19
Exclusive: Google offered to sell advertising marketplace AdX in EU antitrust probe, sources say https://www.reuters.com/... @Reuters @EUReuters @ReutersTech @ReutersBiz @ReutersLegal @thomsonreuters
Reuters
Sources: Google tried to end an EU antitrust probe by offering to sell its ad marketplace AdX, or Ad Exchange, but European publishers rejected the proposal
Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google took a major step this year to end an EU antitrust investigation with an offer to sell …
2023-12-09
Microsoft's role in OpenAI on EU antitrust regulators' radar https://www.reuters.com/... @Reuters @EUReuters @ReutersTech @ReutersBiz @ReutersLegal @thomsonreuters @reutersdeals
Bloomberg
Source: the US FTC is examining the nature of Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and potentially antitrust law violations but hasn't opened a formal investigation
- The agency hasn't opened a formal probe into Microsoft-OpenAI — Microsoft didn't report deal to FTC due to non-profit status
2023-05-26
Exclusive: AI rules ‘cannot be bargained’, EU's Breton says after OpenAI CEO threat https://www.reuters.com/... @reuters @EUReuters @ReutersTech @ReutersBiz @ReutersLegal @thomsonreuters
TechCrunch
OpenAI launches a program to award 10 grants of $100K to develop proof-of-concepts for a “democratic process” to set rules for AI “within the bounds” of the law
OpenAI says it's launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting …
Exclusive: AI rules ‘cannot be bargained’, EU's Breton says after OpenAI CEO threat https://www.reuters.com/... @reuters @EUReuters @ReutersTech @ReutersBiz @ReutersLegal @thomsonreuters
Financial Times
Sam Altman has “many concerns” about the EU's AI Act coming in 2024 and says that OpenAI “will try to comply, but if we can't comply we will cease operating”
claiming that by crafting a clear framework, Europe is holding up the rollout of generative #AI. To the contrary! With the “AI Pact” I proposed, we aim to assist companies in their...
2022-09-26
EXCLUSIVE With eye on Big Tech, energy crisis, EU telcos call for shared network costs https://www.reuters.com/... @Reuters @ReutersTech @ReutersBiz @thomsonreuters @EUReuters
Reuters
Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefonica, Vodafone, and 12 other European telecoms argue that Meta, Google, Netflix, and other US giants should share network costs
Deutsche Telekom (DTEGn.DE), Orange (ORAN.PA), Telefonica (TEF.MC) and 13 other European telecoms providers on Monday …