Hacker News Reader

Nah, if it ever starts to look like NYT might win, MSFT will just do a hostile takeover.

Market cap of NYTimes is 8B, OpenAI is 80B, MSFT is 2.7T, you do the math.

You can't just hostile takeover the NYT. The Salzberger family, who have run it for generations, have a dual class structure and a pretty classic setup to keep control.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com