Sam Altman in Talks With Trump Administration Over a U.S. Government Equity Stake in OpenAI

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CNBC reports OpenAI and the White House are discussing OpenAI donating equity to the federal government to seed a 'Public Wealth Fund' Altman first floated in an April policy proposal. The talks, ongoing for over a year, would tie a frontier lab's cap table directly to the state — an unprecedented structure for an AI company that reframes the OpenAI-vs-government relationship.