Google faces a new investigation Doj Antitrust on partnership with the start of him: Report

Google is said to face an investigation by the fresh justice department if it violated antitrust law through its partnership with the firm of artificial character intelligence.

Officials told Google that they are investigating if they intentionally structured a deal with the character. It last year to avoid regulatory control.

The Big Tech giant hired the main members of the character.

“We are always happy to answer any questions from regulators,” said a Google spokesman in a statement. “We are excited that talent from character. He joined the company, but we have no part of ownership and they remain a separate company.”

Doj refused to comment. The character. He did not respond immediately to a comment request.

Google has not been charged with any wrongdoing, people familiar with the issue to Bloomberg, adding that the probe was in the early stages and would not necessarily result in an implementation action.

Both of the co-founders of the character.Ai, Noam Shazeeer and Daniel de Freitas, are former Google employees who have now returned to the company.

Probe Doj is the latest legal headache for both Google and character. It, whose chatbot imposes characters who may have vivid conversations with users.

Character. He is in the midst of a wrong lawsuit of the death of a high profile filed by the mother of 14-year-old son Sewell Setzer III, who committed suicide.

The lawsuit claims that the character chatbot. He created a character modeled in the HBO series “Game of Thrones” that attracted the teenager into abusive emotional and sexual relationships that eventually led to his death.

At the beginning of this week, a federal judge allowed the lawsuit to continue as it rejected character character. Argument II protected by the first change.

Meanwhile, Google has lost two historical cases of antitrust brought Donoj – one aiming at his online search empire and another focused on its digital advertising technology.

In both cases, federal judges are considering legal remedies that may include a company division.

A decision in the case of search is expected until August and may force Google to sell its Internet Chrome browser.

Doj has asked the US District Judge Ait Mehta, who is leading the search remedies, to consider the long -term implications of Google’s products when they consider that the better the monopoly is completed during the search.

Google’s deal with the character. It has withdrawn comparisons with so -called “rental purchases” transactions that have gained popularity in Silicon Valley as regulators in the US and outside it increase their control of technology firms.

Some critics argue that agreements allow technology firms to quietly disarm the beginnings before threatening their businesses.

Last year, the Supervisor of the UK competition opened an investigation into the mass employment of Microsoft employees from Inflection he – but eventually cleared it.