EU steps up scrutiny of artificial intelligence industry with probes into Microsoft's OpenAI investments, Google's AI deal with Samsung.
The European Union is moving into the next phase of its investigation into the artificial intelligence industry and is focusing particularly on Microsoft multibillion-dollar investments into OpenAI, the bloc's head of competition policy said on Friday.
The European Commission began reviewing Microsoft's deal with OpenAI last year under EU merger rules, but dropped that probe in April after concluding Microsoft had not gained control of the AI firm, Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner and executive vice-president for competition policy, said in a speech.
She noted that Microsoft's exclusivity arrangements with OpenAI are relevant to the inquiry.
Vestager said the Commission is also concerned about consumer choices for foundation models, the technology that underpins generative AI systems.
It is also examining a Google deal with Samsung to pre-install Gemini Nano, a mobile version of Google's generative AI system, in Samsung's S24 flagship smartphones.
This Cyber News was published on www.silicon.co.uk. Publication date: Mon, 01 Jul 2024 12:43:04 +0000