07:29 AM EDT, 04/24/2024 (MT Newswires) -- The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority announced the first phase of its antitrust investigations on Wednesday into deals made by Amazon ( AMZN ) and Microsoft ( MSFT ) with artificial intelligence companies.

In advance of initiating its formal investigations, the regulator issued invitations to comment regarding Amazon's ( AMZN ) partnership with Anthropic, as well as Microsoft's ( MSFT ) partnership with Mistral AI and its hiring of certain former employees of Inflection AI.

The comment period for all three cases closes on May 9.

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