OpenAI proposes transferring a 5% equity stake to the Trump administration for public ownership · Digg

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Theo - t3.gg@theo

Kind of crazy that Sam's full time job is making Trump feel important enough to not destroy the entire economy

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI is proposing handing over a 5% stake to the Trump administration according to the Financial Times.

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Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

This is wild

Give 5% of your company to the US Govt for less oversight

It will probably work

Financial Times@FT

OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake https://ft.trib.al/vSxbmZE

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

FT: OpenAI has proposed giving Washington 5% of its $852B business to ease AI pressure.

The idea borrows from Alaska’s oil fund, which shares resource wealth with residents.

Here, the resource is not oil, but future income from advanced AI systems.

OpenAI also wants other major AI companies to give similar 5% stakes.

Anthropic, Google, Meta, and others have not agreed to join this plan.

No deal exists yet. The mechanism would likely be: OpenAI gives shares to a government-linked fund, that fund holds them, and future IPO gains or dividends support public payouts.

The hard part is legality. The legal route is unclear, and a deal may need Congress, especially if the government creates a formal public fund.

The Intel deal made this idea less theoretical after taxpayers received a 9.9% stake.

OpenAI has already proposed a public wealth fund giving citizens AI-linked financial upside.

Shareholders matter a lot here. OpenAI Foundation owns 26%, Microsoft owns about 27%, and employees plus other investors own 47%.

A new 5% stake could dilute everyone unless the shares come from an existing holder.

So OpenAI’s board, Foundation, Microsoft, major investors, and maybe regulators would need to accept the structure.

The cleanest path would be non-voting shares placed in a public wealth fund, so the government gets upside but not control.

The messiest path would be voting shares, because then Washington becomes both regulator and part-owner.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

This is part of the proposed AI wealth fund that would pay a dividend directly to American citizens that has been suggested by Sam Altman, Bernie Sanders, and Donald Trump - all with different details.

June 4th.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

NOTUS is reporting that senior administration officials have held discussions with major AI labs - including OpenAI - about the possibility of those labs giving the government equity stakes by voluntarily ceding shares. The returns from those shares could eventually be directly distributed to American citizens through an AI dividend.

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Paul Graham@paulg

@pitdesi Of if you volunteer to give them 5%, they won't shake you down for 10.

Sheel Mohnot@pitdesi

This is wild

Give 5% of your company to the US Govt for less oversight

It will probably work

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI is proposing handing over a 5% stake to the Trump administration according to the Financial Times.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI's proposal. April 6th.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI has written a new policy proposal 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First.' They propose the creation of a Public Wealth Fund that will provide American citizens with an automatic public stake in AI companies and AI infrastructure even if they are not invested in the market. Returns from the fund would be distributed directly to citizens.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

https://www.ft.com/content/7c803eab-8e80-4431-9a87-e943bf00e00b

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Ramez Naam@ramez

Concerning.

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/openai-proposes-us-government-own-5percent-stake-to-address-political-blowback.html

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

CNBC

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Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D.@iScienceLuvr

why

Financial Times@FT

OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake https://ft.trib.al/vSxbmZE

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

CNBC

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The first time I posted this I wrote a stake to 'the US Government' which I think is the better phrasing, then I deleted that post because I wanted to add a screenshot of the headline. And then when I rewrote it, I mirrored the headline without even realizing it, and reposted it.

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terminally onλine εngineer@tekbog

@luke_metro well, one of them is funny, if u are funny u can get away with anything

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Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

The first time I posted this I wrote a stake to 'the US Government' which I think is the better phrasing, then I deleted that post because I wanted to add a screenshot of the headline. And then when I rewrote it, I mirrored the headline without even realizing it, and reposted it.

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI's proposal. April 6th.

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Philip C@Aknotymous

@AndrewCurran_ Gotta hand it to Sam, he knows the game and plays it well.

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prinz@deredleritt3r

@AndrewCurran_ Thanks, I hate it

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appsicle@appsicle_

@AndrewCurran_ is this essentially raising more funding for openai or r they just giving away a stake for free here

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fan.jpg@Estefanoandres

@KenjiTakano4 @AndrewCurran_ @appsicle_ That’s half ChatGPT plus subscription nice

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Luke Metro@luke_metro

Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_

OpenAI is proposing handing over a 5% stake to the Trump administration according to the Financial Times.

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Live 📿@LiveMatrixCode

@quasicoh @AndrewCurran_ That was intentional by the FT for clickbaity reasons

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