OpenAI Wants Your Government as a Shareholder

The Daily Prompt · Jul 2, 2026 · 5m

OpenAI just floated the wildest trial balloon yet in the ongoing saga of how to pay for all this artificial intelligence: give the government actual equity. As in, a five percent stake. Bernie Sanders has his own version involving a fifty percent tax, because of course he does. We've also got Anthropic's flagship model back online after a three-week government timeout, Microsoft launching what is definitely not just consulting with a different name, and a research paper that should terrify anyone betting the farm on frontier models. Let's go. 1. OpenAI Pitches 5% Government Equity Stake…