“While I am proud of the work we are doing, we lack the resources to fully address these challenges,” Kanter said, pointing out that the antitrust division has 350 fewer people today than it did in 1979. Lina Khan, ...
The agency had already claimed jurisdiction over probes into Microsoft and OpenAI regarding competition in artificial intelligence, and started looking into Microsoft's $650 million deal with AI startup Inflection AI. Microsoft has been somewhat of an exception to U.S. antitrust regulato...
The agency had already claimed jurisdiction over probes into Microsoft and OpenAI regarding competition in artificial intelligence, and started looking into Microsoft's $650 million deal with AI startup Inflection AI. Microsoft has been somewhat of an exception to US antitrust regulators' recent campai...
How technology impacts us. March 10, 2025 Google’s Antitrust Reckoning: How Courts Are Closing In on Big Tech The legal pressure on big tech companies is intensifying as regulators move to curb their market dominance. Government agencies, particularly the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the...
The agency’s antitrust case targeting Amazon’s online marketplace has been in the works for a long time, according to the report. Amazon got the FTC notice for initial investigation in June 2019, Bloomberg reported, citing documents. Those documents included questions about how us...
The agency had already claimed jurisdiction over probes into Microsoft and OpenAI regarding competition in artificial intelligence and started looking into Microsoft's $650 million deal with AI startup Inflection AI. Microsoft has been somewhat of an exception to US antitrust regulators' recent campaign...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's case accusing Amazon of stifling competition in online retail will move forward, though some of the states that sued alongside the agency had their claims dismissed, court documents showed. ...
Politicoreportedthat “AI-related investigations” into both companies were held up prior to the agreement that the agencies reached today. Under the agreement, the FTC will continue leading the antitrust probe into Amazon, while Justice will be responsible for the probe focused on Google...
Federal Trade Commission: in 2022, the FTC challenged at least six healthcare deals out of a total of 50 where the agency took merger enforcement action© Alex Brandon/A The action had accused both the firm and the network of a “multiyear anti-competitive scheme” in Texas and “systemati...
(or resources) for drastic increases. Also, as with the DOJ, any chairman President Biden might appoint, and the Bureau directors that chairman will select, will likely come from the mainstream of the Democratic antitrust community, which also suggests that FTC enforcement will...