The EU will Microsoft's ($MSFT (+0,21 %) ) 13 billion US dollar investment in OpenAI under the merger rules as there is insufficient evidence of an "acquisition of control".

However, an antitrust investigation could be initiated to investigate possible adverse effects on competition through exclusivity agreements to be examined. The EU is also investigating the contract between Google ($GOOGL (+0,23 %)) and Samsung ($005930) on AI systems in smartphones.