Microsoft and Amazon say their investments in artificial intelligence startups are not mergers, after the UK’s antitrust watchdog launched a call for views on Microsoft’s partnership with Mistral AI, its hiring of former Inflection AI employees and Amazon's agreement with Anthropic.
Lundbeck and several generic drugmakers have argued that a pay-for-delay damages claim from the UK government should be thrown out because it was filed out of time.
Lawmakers should consider “embedding” autonomous artificial intelligence models inside dominant companies to prevent them from charging excessive prices, the president of the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal has claimed.
Canada’s Competition Bureau has outlined “substantial” competition concerns about Bunge’s $8.2 billion acquisition of Viterra, zeroing in on the buyer’s ownership of a minority stake in a rival. The agency detailed its …
The European Commission is conducting its first-ever raids on a company under the Foreign Subsidies Regulation, targeting an unnamed business in the security equipment sector.
Bosch has offered EU-wide remedies to alleviate the Italian Competition Authority’s concerns that the company excluded its only rival in a nascent market, in a commitment offer that could also apply to …
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The Federal Trade Commission and chair Lina Khan’s blanket ban on non-compete was an “unlawful and unprecedented” abuse of bureaucracy, the US Chamber of Commerce has alleged in a lawsuit.
The Federal Trade Commission has adopted its first-ever legislative antitrust rule, authorising a near-blanket ban on non-compete agreements following a party-line vote that has already been challenged in court.
A “very small proportion” of outbound investments could present national security issues, the UK’s deputy prime minister has said.
The US Department of the Treasury has proposed granting the country’s investment screening watchdog enhanced access to information and penalty powers to better address national security concerns.
Alexis Pirchio rejoined Argentina’s National Commission for Competition Defence last month as head of the agency after five years working in the private sector. He spoke to GCR about recent setbacks to …
Étienne Chantrel stepped down as head of the mergers unit at France’s Competition Authority last Monday. He spoke to GCR about recent Article 22 referrals, political interference, policing minority shareholdings and the …
Cani Fernández is more than halfway into her tenure as president of Spain’s National Commission for Markets and Competition. She spoke to GCR about prioritising probes into Google and Booking.com, investing in …
Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Han Ki-jeong to lead the country's Fair Trade Commission last year. The KFTC head spoke to GCR about the agency’s bid to tackle anticompetitive practices from Big …
When navigating the complexities of SEP/FRAND licensing, it is imperative to take account of consumer voices alongside market …
Last year the European Commission published new guidelines to update online trade restrictions and harmonise the approach to …
Antitrust authorities tend to prefer structural over non-structural remedies as the latter require constant monitoring, may be less …
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