Here’s the thing, this isn’t an acquisition. This is Nvidia hiring a few guys. What’s the government supposed to do? Tell those guys they can only work for one startup and they can never leave it? You can’t tell people what jobs they can and can’t take right now. (Probably not ever in the US given our history with slavery.)

Now, how do you stop that?

Companies don’t need to buy startups, they just need the expert that startup hired. Once they have the experts, everything else takes care of itself.

Point is, antitrust works fine. It just fixes the wrong problem. That was really the problem with khan. She never really figured out that the technologies have passed the legal framework by. She should have tried to come up with solutions to the problem of monopolizing intellectual capital rather than the problem of monopolizing markets or intellectual property.