Just after a victory in acquiring game studio Activision Blizzard, Microsoft (MSFT) could have jumped to the front of the line for regulators seeking to stamp out potential antitrust cases. Sam Altman has been reinstated as OpenAI CEO after a brief courting by Microsoft — which owns a 49% stake in the artificial intelligence firm — and now the two companies are chummier than ever. Duke University Professor and Venture Capitalist Sultan Meghji and Axios Tech and Policy Reporter Ashley Gold comment on how the OpenAI melodrama could change lawmakers' antitrust frameworks. "We're going to be in a situation, I'm positive, where the output of the last five days of chaos at OpenAI will fundamentally shift the regulatory lens back to the Big Tech companies that are writing these checks," Meghji, former CIO of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), tells Yahoo Finance. "Previous to this, Microsoft did not have a board seat, they were not even board observers at OpenAI. It's very clear that they will." For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Yahoo Finance Live.
