No merger scrutiny of Microsoft's hiring of Inflection staff, EU says

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft's hiring of artificial intelligence startup Inflection's staff including its co-founders will not be scrutinised under European Union merger rules, EU antitrust regulators said on Wednesday. The European Commission said seven EU countries had dropped their requests asking it to examine the deal. The move followed a ruling from Europe's top court earlier this month prohibiting the EU enforcer from examining merger cases which fall below the EU's merger revenue threshold.