“Antitrust law is not doing this one specific thing i want it to do, therefor it doesn’t exist” sure is a take

Microsoft got repeatedly bashed over the head by EU courts for antitrust violations, including for forcing Internet Explorer on people.

There are countries other than the US

antitrust legislation exists and applies to proprietary software

The article cited by The Register cites this more detailed analysis in turn: https://blog.katanaquant.com/p/your-llm-doesnt-write-correct-code

Performance of the AI-generated version was 20,000 times slower on one specific benchmark, but “only” about 2,000 times slower when averaging over multiple different benchmarks (which is, imo, a better measurement of the code’s quality).

So I suppose The Register pulled from multiple sources (as you should) and just linked to the most top-level of all of them.