Microsoft Corp. is under investigation in the UK for potential antitrust violations related to its productivity software. Meanwhile, OpenAI Inc.'s ChatGPT app has been updated to support Apple CarPlay, allowing users to engage with the chatbot while driving. Additionally, Google has released its new Gemma 4 AI processing engine, which offers greater flexibility for developers and researchers.
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Microsoft for allegedly limiting competition in the productivity software market, including Word, Excel, Teams, and Windows. This is not the first time Microsoft has faced regulatory scrutiny, as the CMA previously investigated the company in 2023 and 2024.
OpenAI's ChatGPT app now supports voice mode on Apple CarPlay, enabling users to have conversations with the chatbot while driving. However, experts caution against using AI-powered apps while driving, as it can be distracting.
Google's Gemma 4 AI processing engine offers greater flexibility for developers and researchers, with models released under the Apache 2.0 license. The engine includes various models, such as the 26B Mixture of Experts and the 31B Dense, which can be used for frontier intelligence and offline compute on personal systems.
Penguin Random House is suing OpenAI for allegedly violating copyright laws by mimicking and reproducing content from a popular series of German children's books. The lawsuit was filed in a Munich court and claims that ChatGPT generated text and images that are virtually indistinguishable from the original.
