{"id":93873,"date":"2026-07-03T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/93873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T00:30:45","slug":"openai-floats-handing-us-government-5-stake-in-company-ft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/93873\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI floats handing US government 5% stake in company: FT"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI has reportedly discussed the idea of giving the U.S. government \u200ba 5% stake in the company, according to the Financial Times (FT) on Thursday, as artificial intelligence firms face growing scrutiny \u2060in Washington over the potential misuse \u2060of advanced models and whether Americans will share in the sector’s profits.<\/p>\n

Under the proposal, OpenAI has suggested that \u200bother U.S. AI companies also hand the \u200bgovernment similar \u2060stakes, the report said, adding it was unclear whether the other companies would agree.<\/p>\n

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.<\/p>\n

OpenAI and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comments outside regular business hours.<\/p>\n

Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump said he was exploring options to give the public a stake in leading AI companies, in response to concerns that individual Americans will not share in the sector’s expected profits.<\/p>\n

Earlier, OpenAI proposed \u2060creating \u2060a “public wealth fund” to invest in AI companies and distribute proceeds to citizens, while Anthropic said it was exploring a “digital dividend,\u201d defined as payments to Americans funded by taxes on the AI sector.<\/p>\n

The FT said, citing two people familiar with the talks, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the firm’s executives had suggested that leading U.S. AI firms allot 5% of their \u2060equity to a vehicle similar to the Alaska Permanent Fund, a state-owned corporation seeded with oil revenues that pays annual dividends to residents and helps support \u200bAlaska’s budget.<\/p>\n

Altman has discussed the stake sale with Trump, Commerce Secretary Howard \u200bLutnick and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the FT said. He has also spoken to Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders in \u2060recent \u200cweeks.<\/p>\n

The report \u200ccomes after OpenAI delayed a full public \u2060launch of GPT-5.6 last week at the \u200cU.S. government’s request.<\/p>\n

That announcement came after the U.S. government ordered rival Anthropic \u200bto suspend access to its \u2060frontier AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, \u2060for foreign nationals over national security risks.<\/p>\n

The U.S. removed curbs \u2060on Anthropic’s AI \u200bmodels on Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have confidentially filed for U.S. initial public offerings.<\/p>\n

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