OpenAI in Early Talks to Give U.S. Government a 5% Stake; Altman Urges Peers to Follow
- OpenAI is in preliminary discussions about issuing the U.S. government a 5% equity stake, with CEO Sam Altman arguing the public should share in AI's financial upside, per Fox Business/Bloomberg reporting.
- Altman has suggested Anthropic, Google and Meta contribute similar stakes to a sovereign-wealth-style fund modeled on the Alaska Permanent Fund.
- Proposal comes as the Trump administration steps up scrutiny of AI's labor and national-security impact; raises conflict-of-interest questions for federal AI regulators.