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OpenAI floats giving US government 5 percent stake in AI company.

OpenAI has proposed offering the Trump administration a 5 percent ownership stake as a way to ease regulatory tensions and counter public backlash against AI, per the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share benefits of the AI boom.

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  1. The Verge AI3H AGO
    www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/960588/openai-government-5-percent-stake-trump
  2. Hacker News (front, AI-filtered)2H AGO
    www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman
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