Altman Calls for Robot Taxes and a Wealth Fund, The New Yorker Investigates Sam, Meta’s Models
Today we’re covering the biggest AI stories of April 7th, 2026. OpenAI published a 13-page policy document outlining how society should prepare for superintelligence — with Sam Altman proposing robot taxes, a national wealth fund that pays dividends to every American, a four-day workweek, and emergency playbooks for AI that can no longer be shut down. The New Yorker dropped a 100-interview deep dive into Altman’s career, surfacing unseen memos from ex-chief scientist Ilya Sutskever and private notes from Dario Amodei that independently reach the same conclusion — both calling the problem at…
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