US Government Weighs Direct Equity Stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic

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The Register's June 9 piece 'Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic' covers reported White House discussions about the federal government taking equity in AI labs, potentially seeding a nationally managed Public Wealth Fund with returns flowing to households. The framing stresses that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is profitable; the concept traces to Altman's early-2025 pitch and OpenAI's April 2026 13-page 'Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age' paper. Trump publicly floated the idea June 5.