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Mobile World Live (MWL) brings you our top three picks of the week as US President Joe Biden signed a bill that could ban TikTok, Microsoft highlighted a new lightweight AI model and 3GPP took the wraps off a new 6G logo.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Microsoft and Amazon’s dealings with AI start-ups, inviting comment from market players to determine if recent partnerships have the potential to hurt competition in the country.

Microsoft continued to slim down AI language models, unveiling its third lightweight edition which it stated offers comparable performance to rival products while being suitable for use on mobile phones.

Meta Platforms unveiled a plan to open up its Quest headset operating system to third-party hardware companies, in an attempt to increase adoption of AR/VR applications and services.

The European Commission reportedly decided against a formal investigation into Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI, which allayed concern the partnership would be unwound under merger regulation.

Microsoft laid out $1.5 billion for a stake in UAE-based G42 in a deal that gave the tech giant a seat on the AI company’s board.

Microsoft announced it would build an AI hub in London as part of a planned long-term investment to develop consumer products and foster research in the UK.