Britain's business regulatory agency signs off on Amazon investment in Anthropic AI

Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The British government's business and markets regulator ruled Friday that a merger between AI company Anthropic and Amazon does not violate the Enterprise Act of 2002.

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority had been looking at key aspects of the partnership and if it would result in Amazon "having material influence" over Anthropic as part of a so-called "quasi-merger," which is part of a new and growing trend in the realm of artificial intelligence.

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