Sources: US officials have held talks with AI companies about the government acquiring shares; Sam Altman first pitched the concept directly to Trump in 2025
Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential …
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Jeff Stein
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SCOOP: US officials have had talks about having government acquire shares in AI giants, sources say Altman has discussed w/ senior officials, including Trump. Did again recently May be *ceding* shares to USG - not a purchase Shares could go 2 dividend https://www.notus.org/...
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Jeff Stein
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Having the government acquire shares of OpenAI or other AI giants would be an enormous shift Altman is floating only a portion of shares Idea would be to make OpenAI benefits more broadly felt while retaining control over the company
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Jeff Stein
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Bernie Sanders has cited AI safety experts in arguing a partial turnover of equity is inadequate - what's needed is the government controlling +50% of the AI giants Bannon agrees: [image]
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Jeff Stein
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A person familiar with the matter said Anthropic is not having talks with the administration about providing equith shares to the government
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Alastair Millar
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Translation: the AI bros want the US government to fund their massively loss-making business model, and the US government is entertaining spending tax dollars to do just that. [embedded post]
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Carl Quintanilla
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(NOTUS) - Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms, according to three people familiar with the matter. — @notus.com — www.notus.or…
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U.S. Government Officials In Talks To Acquire Shares In AI giants
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Rich Burroughs
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They haven't even gone public and they're already lining up for the bailouts, the one thing that may be actually inevitable.