The Department of Justice is reportedly probing whether a Google artificial intelligence (AI) deal violates antitrust law.
At issue is Google’s agreement with chatbot maker Character.AI to use that company’s AI technology, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (May 22), citing sources familiar with the matter.
According to those sources, regulators recently informed Google they are investigating whether the company designed that agreement to avoid government merger scrutiny.
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