An American investigation with "Microsoft" over the fight against monopoly

The US Federal Trade Committee is going forward with a widespread action to combat monopoly against “Microsoft”, which opened in the last days of the Biden administration, suggesting that the new chairman of the Federal Trade Committee Andrew Ferguson will give priority to the auditing of giant technology companies. Over the past few weeks, the federal trade committee employees have continued to work on the investigation and meet with companies and other groups to gather information, according to persons who are familiar with the case, who asked not to reveal their identity during the discussion of an unannounced investigation. Artificial Intelligence data that the Federal Trade Committee sent to ‘Microsoft’ which is called a request for civil investigation, which is more like a judicial summons, late last year. This document, in which Bloomberg is a copy of a copy of, obliges the company to provide large amounts of data related to artificial intelligence operations, including the cost of training forms and data acquisition, dating from 2016. The Federal Trade Committee also has the Microsoft decision to reduce funding for its artificial intelligence projects after concluding an agreement with ‘Openai’, which can be seen as a competition in the prosperous artificial intelligence market. According to a person, a company regularly received inquiries from the Federal Trade Committee on issuing licensing practices of “Microsoft” since the investigation of the investigation, according to a person. The Federal Trade Committee and the Attorneys of this company discussed the information that the agency could request in a more comprehensive official request. The company also received a list of short questions a few weeks ago in which documents were submitted to other organizational bodies. The person added that the Federal Trade Committee attempts to obtain additional information on the changes in the licensing rules that Microsoft said would come into effect later this year. The agency has ‘Microsoft’ investigation and in the request to obtain information, said he wants to determine whether Microsoft’s profits from other parts of his business give it an advantage over other artificial intelligence companies. The agency also said that it wants details of the limitations of the Microsoft Data Center to better understand the cost of cloud computing services. These details will also help the agency to determine whether or not a lawsuit will be filed with the company. Since receiving the request from the Federal Trade Committee, Microsoft may have tried to reduce the extent of the information needed, a model step by companies investigated by the agency. Such extensive investigations into the control of monopoly can take years, nor can it necessarily lead to the agency raising a case. “We are working with the agency,” said Microsoft, Alex Horik, “we are working with the agency.” The Federal Trade Committee did not respond to the request for comment. Daniel Garnerra, who joined the agency that came from the Justice Ministry, is now the work of technology giants and the development of the investigation. In his first public statements since adopting the post of chairman of the committee at the end of February, Ferguson said that the technological sector investigating is his top priority. The first steps include the search for information on the practices of technology companies in charge. Ferguson also supported a request in January to support billionaire Illon Musk, who filed a lawsuit to support the opinion that AI plans to restructure as a traditional profit -aimed company. Bloomberg had earlier published that the civil investigation request was formulated by the federal trade committee employees and was personally signed by former committee, Lina Khan, after the agency for more than a year -official interviews with the competitors of “Microsoft” and its trading partners. Issues against “Mita” and “Amazon”, and as a result, the Federal Trade Committee led by Ferguson has many other issues against major technology companies of Khan, including lawsuits against ‘Meta Platfarms’ and Amazon. The agency on Wednesday asked the judge to postpone a hearing that stabbed the subscription practices “Amazon Prime”, with the resources of the limited agency. A separate trial is expected to be held in October 2026 against Amazon’s actions in the field of anti -monopoly. Most questions are related to the request of information on how Microsoft license for its software products, especially with regard to the company’s company in cloud computing. The participants complained that the terms of “Microsoft” license and the combination of its famous productivity and security programs with his offers on the cloud field make it difficult to compete. About a third of the questions focus on Microsoft’s works in artificial intelligence, which highlights the importance of emerging technology for the future of the business. Behind the requests from the Federal Trade Committee is the fear that “Microsoft” canceled some of its business after deciding to invest in “Oben AI” and very much relying on the “Chat BT” program, which led to the elimination of potential competition. Microsoft’s investment in “Oben Ai” and despite the large amount, Microsoft did not reveal his investment (in Oben AI) to represent organizing bodies, and the federal trading committee also reached whether the agreement was structured as a partnership to avoid integration, according to a report published by Bloomberg. When Microsoft first invested in the ‘Oben AI’ in 2019, the beginning was a promising research lab that was looking for a way to finance the cloud computer power needed to create artificial intelligence models. Microsoft started pumping a billion dollars after the collaborator withdrew his support. Microsoft worked on various artificial intelligence projects for more than two decades, and she was afraid she would fall behind the rival “Google”. The company’s efforts were distributed on various divisions and did not lead to the results that CEO Satia Nadella hoped. In 2023, a month after an additional $ 10 billion in “Oben Ai”, “Microsoft” began to reveal a series of products with the startup technologies. Microsoft withdrew its own efforts to develop technology, which raised the concern of the federal committee.