Microsoft’s ‘Real Relationship’ With OpenAI Is Key EU Focus (1)

Microsoft Corp.’s “real relationship” with OpenAI is of high interest to European Union antitrust regulators, the bloc’s competition chief told Bloomberg TV.

The European Commission earlier this week said it’s examining whether Microsoft’s $13 billion investment into OpenAI should be vetted under EU merger rules, opening the risk of a full-blown investigation.

“What is interesting for us of course is what is the real relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft when it comes to control of the business in question,” Margrethe Vestager said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg Television during a visit to the US.

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