A move by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to formally launch a probe into Google’s purchase of a $2 billion stake in Anthropic, “sounds like a precautionary investigation across the board to me, primarily due to the fact that the CMA just recently approved Amazon’s Anthropic investment and partnership,” an industry analyst said Thursday. Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said, “on the surface, the deal with Google seems materially similar in nature.

Source: ComputerWorld