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Filing details $400 million license for smart robot system and claims retail giant’s “reverse acquihire” contract limits competition and merits antitrust scrutiny.
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By Joseph Menn
SAN FRANCISCO — As Amazon, Microsoft and Google race ahead in artificial intelligence, they are trying to avoid antitrust scrutiny by stopping short of buying hot companies outright and instead investing in them, hiring their top engineers or licensing their technology
A self-described whistleblower is now arguing to regulators that Amazon played it too close, illegally disguising what was effectively an acquisition because it was liable to be blocked, according to his filing obtained by The Washington Post, which includes an executive’s recorded remarks and previously undisclosed deal documents.
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