Tech antitrust is about to get really weird

162.952 - 182.376 Nilay Patel

And some of this enforcement has been so intense that the big companies have started to devise creative strategies to avoid the very appearance of acquiring another company. Just look at Inflection AI. Microsoft didn't acquire it, but rather it hired most of the people at the company, licensed the technology, and installed its co-founder, Mustafa Suleiman, as the CEO of its new AI division.