Washington Eyes OpenAI Equity, Chat Is Dead Says OpenAI, Anthropic's Mythos Is Almost Here
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 8th, 2026. The White House and OpenAI are reportedly in active talks about the U.S. government taking a 1 to 5% equity stake in the company — with shares routed into a public wealth fund designed to give everyday Americans a cut of the AI boom — while former AI czar David Sacks is already calling it a dangerous acceleration of corporate-government fusion. OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT redesign yet in the coming weeks, rebuilding the app as a full agent-and-coding superapp centered around Codex, with one senior executive saying "Chat…
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