Donald Trump evaluates proposals for formal US government partnerships with major AI companies

⚠️⚠️ Seismic shift ⚠️⚠️

It’s a good day to be Mistral.

Nobody is going to trust an American AI company that is partly owned by the US Government.

Just the way the US doesn’t trust Huawei.

After this meeting, everything is going to change.

I don’t think either Washington or Silicon Valley has really thought this through.

smells like bailout. smells like garbage. 🤮

When gov’t owns / controls the means of production it is socialism. I don’t trust shares in the hands of some future politicians that can coerce or liquidate & spend on whatever their political beliefs. If purchased or donated the shares should be directly held by American citizens through their @TrumpAccounts or in a pooled Trust / Trump Acct that will be divided among citizens in the future. 🇺🇸🚀

Things are moving so fast.

@washingtonpost There's a term for this, and it's bailout.

The US gov't having some stake in leading AI labs has been a floating around as an idea in some policy/AI circles for a while now, but very much as a hypothetical down-the-road idea.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-05/us-exploring-government-partnerships-with-ai-firms-trump-says?srnd=homepage-europe

Trump Administration is in talks for U.S. Got stake in top AI labs. "there is so much money & it's so big that there are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public becomes a partner with the companies."

@washingtonpost @lumiere2016 Beyond the fact, this is pure communism, there’s another fundamental problem: how the is the government supposed to diligently regulate a company that it has a huge financial interest in? That’s a massive conflict of interest.

@washingtonpost Trump when Trump uses AI to pump propaganda, surveil dissidents, and replace who he fires, but he also steals tax dollars to fund stakes in the companies, so he can extract more money for illegal wars and vanity projects while gutting services people actually need to stay alive:

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It’s a good day to be Mistral.

Nobody is going to trust an American AI company that is partly owned by the US Government.

Just the way the US doesn’t trust Huawei.

After this meeting, everything is going to change.

Hard to think of a way the boards of these companies could justify this as advancing their (not just US focused) mission, or being fair to investors, the associated nonprofits etc.

I hope they push back, especially in the OAI case, since reportedly OAI first brought it up (!)

@washingtonpost conflicts of interest mean nothing to this man! The fuckery in the last 3 days has been UNBELIEVABLE !! from congress to the white house! Are we even seen as people anymore or just TAX$$$$$?

@GaryMarcus The issue isn’t just ownership. It’s the trust model. Once the state has a stake in the company building the intelligence layer, every foreign customer has to ask whether they are buying a product or importing a geopolitical dependency.

@washingtonpost That’s communism. For all the brain dead right wingers out there constantly screaming that word when it doesn’t apply. Your messiah has provided you with a real example.

Recent reporting has found that Trump has abused his access and position to execute stock trades in companies the government has taken ownership stakes in at his personal request. The AI industry is expanding globally and Trump is likely looking to make a profit there too. All of this is of course illegal and Trump will certainly be prosecuted for insider trading.

@washingtonpost @lumiere2016 Communist.

@washingtonpost Didn't Trump specifically say OpenAI, leading me to guess that his family invested in OpenAI prior to the announcement,?

@washingtonpost He only wants to do that so he can grift it.