OpenAI Floats a 5% Government Stake, Smart Glasses vs Your Phone, Bridgewater's AI Costs 14x Less
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of July 3rd, 2026. Sam Altman used an FT op-ed to call for a U.S.-led forum that would set global AI safety standards and control access to the most powerful models — landing the same day reports surfaced that OpenAI floated giving the U.S. government a 5% equity stake, with Altman invoking Cold War-era atomic energy oversight as the model and insisting "citizens and their elected representatives must make the rules." Rowan spent a week wearing Meta's new smart glasses and found GPS, live translation, and hands-free cooking genuinely great, but…
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