Microsoft Investigated by UK Over Ex-Inflection Staff Hires (bloomberg.com) 3
Microsoft's investment into Inflection AI will get a full-blown UK antitrust probe, after the watchdog said it needed to take a closer look at the hiring of former employees from the artificial intelligence startup. From a report: The Competition and Markets Authority said Tuesday it was opening the formal phase one merger probe into the partnership, setting a Sept. 11 deadline on whether to escalate it to an in-depth investigation. The agency has been swift to act against big tech's AI startup investments after it found a pattern of large tech firms piling money into start ups.
One up on the EU (Score:2, Insightful)
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No. Equal. Ask the guys at Xerox (Palo Alto) in the '80's about it. There was another guy with some thing for fruit, only slightly less evil than the first guy, but he died of something a few years back, so you can't ask him.
Temporal separation is just like any other separation - stuff that's close up always looks scarier than stuff that's far away. Trust me on this one. They even managed to get the best of IBM. Not the modern IBM, the real IBM, back when they knew what they were doing.