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Microsoft lawyer warns AI shouldn’t 'go the way of search'

By Lewis Crofts ( March 25, 2026, 22:51 GMT | Insight) -- Microsoft’s chief legal officer warned that the rollout of AI technologies should avoid the pitfalls of internet search, which fell into the hands of Google, and regulators should rightly focus on bottlenecks and competition at different layers of the stack. Jonathan Palmer said Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI still saw the two companies competing against each other "vigorously," while “only one company” was vertically integrated across multiple layers.Microsoft’s chief legal officer warned that the rollout of AI technologies should avoid the pitfalls of internet search, which fell into the hands of Google, and regulators should rightly focus on bottlenecks and competition at different layers of the stack....

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