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Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Andrew Ferguson, stated that the agency is closely monitoring large tech companies' practice of poaching employees from startups instead of directly acquiring them to bypass antitrust scrutiny. Ferguson said, "We are beginning to review these 'talent acquisitions' to ensure they are not attempting to circumvent the agency's merger review process." Ferguson's remarks indicate that the Trump administration is focusing on a series of collaborations between Silicon Valley giants and highly potential AI startups. Recently, NVIDIA recruited a large number of employees from the startup semiconductor company Groq as part of a non-exclusive intellectual property licensing agreement. The Biden administration has also previously examined such transactions, including Microsoft's investment in OpenAI and the practice of hiring employees from Inflection AI, to determine if they are aimed at evading merger investigations.