Commission ends probe of Microsoft-Inflection AI merger

The European Commission will stop looking into whether Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection AI staff breached EU merger rules after seven EU countries dropped their requests for an investigation, the EU executive said in a press release on Wednesday (18 September).

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It is yet unclear whether the Commission will continue scrutinising Microsoft for hiring Inflection AI workers, in a practice that Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager coined as "acqui-hires" in June. [EPA-EFE/Teresa Suarez]

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