The Competition and Markets Authority s willingness to take them on was made clear last year when it intervened in Microsoft s purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, and again more recently when it said it was reviewing the US giant s deal with ChatGPT maker OpenAI.
MIcrosoft: Speaking for the Federal Trade Commission, lawyer Imad Abyad argued that the lower-court judge held the agency to too high a standard, effectively requiring it to prove that the deal was anticompetitive.