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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 06: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella (R) greets OpenAI CEO Sam Altman during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. Altman delivered the keynote address at the first-ever Open AI DevDay conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

FTC sends subpoenas to Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon amid antitrust concerns over AI startups relying on Big Tech for financing, infrastructure

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games to contest Apple’s ‘27% tax’ on outside payments and its ‘bad faith compliance’ with court ruling

By Leah Nylen, Greg Stohr, and others

Dylan Field, co-founder and chief executive officer of Figma Inc., in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Thursday, June 24, 2021. Software design company Figma has raised fresh funding at a valuation of $10 billion, quintupling its price tag since last year. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Adobe to pay Figma a $1B breakup fee after European regulators scuttle proposed merger

By Leah Nylen, Brody Ford, and others

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 06: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during the OpenAI DevDay event on November 06, 2023 in San Francisco, California. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered the keynote address at the first ever Open AI DevDay conference. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Microsoft says it’s not an OpenAI shareholder as British antitrust watchdog examines relationship

By Dina Bass, Leah Nylen, and others

John Schmidtlein

Google’s lawyer cringes in court when expert reveals confidential revenue figure paid to Apple over search advertising

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

Sundar Pichai

Google and the government agree that it hid its AI dominance for years, they just disagree on why

By Davey Alba, Leah Nylen, and others

Sundar Pichai

Google CEO Sundar Pichai on alleged comment about working hand in glove with Apple: ‘I don’t recall myself saying that line’

By Todd Shields, Leah Nylen, and others

WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 13: Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, arrives for the “AI Insight Forum” at the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Lawmakers are seeking input from business leaders in the artificial intelligence sector, and some of their most ardent opponents, for writing legislation governing the rapidly evolving technology. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Google CEO Pichai wrote to founders Page and Brin to decry bad ‘optics’ of search engine deal with Apple when he was in charge of Chrome

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

Gabriel Weinberg, founder and chief executive officer of DuckDuckGo Inc., speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. The hearing comes amid building bipartisan support for increased tech regulation in the U.S. and is taking place just days after Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic hopeful Elizabeth Warren called on the government to break up big tech companies like Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Apple mulled replacing Google with DuckDuckGo as default search engine in private mode: Unsealed transcripts

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., speaks during the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. The GeekWire Summit brings together business, tech and community leaders for discussions about the future. Photographer: David Ryder/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Amazon to be slapped with an FTC antitrust lawsuit next week as government legal cases pile up against the e-commerce giant

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of Amazon.Com Inc., speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The summit highlights the ways in which society has been changed by digital disruption and provides the roadmap for what lies ahead. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Lina Khan’s FTC will likely hit Amazon with an antitrust lawsuit this month that caps a 4-year investigation into its online marketplace

By Leah Nylen and The Associated Press

Joshua Wright, commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. The Federal Communications Commission was sued by a trade group and a broadband provider this week claiming net neutrality rules issued this year exceed the government’s authority. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images

High-powered attorney who become a top federal regulator ‘preyed on’ students and colleagues over nearly 2 decades, women allege

By Leah Nylen and Bloomberg

Ron Price, Jimmy Dunne

Senate’s golf probe reveals secret outreach by UK businessman to PGA Tour for months on behalf of Saudi PIF boss

By Leah Nylen, Malathi Nayak, and others

UNITED STATES – APRIL 18: FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan testifies during the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce hearing titled “Oversight of the Securities and Exchange Commission,” in Rayburn Building on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

FTC chief Lina Khan is gunning for Amazon with a planned antitrust lawsuit that goes at the heart of its core business

By Anna Edgerton, Leah Nylen, and others

Satya Nadella, chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during an interview in Redmond, Washington, US, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Microsoft Corp.’s effort to overhaul its entire lineup with OpenAI technology has spread to one of the companys oldest and best-known products: its Office apps. Photographer: Chona Kasinger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

FTC sues Microsoft to block its $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition, setting up a potential legal showdown over the mega deal

By Leah Nylen, Anna Edgerton, and others