By Jess Jones Britain’s competition regulator has today cleared Microsoft’s arrangements with Inflection AI, which included a licensing deal and the hiring of former Inflection employees. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced in April it was looking at three separate deals that potentially fall under UK merger law and, if so, whether they could have a harmful anti-competitive effect on UK consumers and businesses. The three partnerships were between Microsoft and Mistral AI, Amazon and Anthropic, and Microsoft’s arrangements with Inflection AI, a startup that says it is creatin…