Sam Altman Floats Donating 5% of OpenAI's Equity to a U.S. Sovereign Wealth Fund — With Rival Labs Expected to Match

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Per an FT report carried by TechCrunch (July 2), Altman has proposed giving 5% of OpenAI's equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, with other AI labs donating similar stakes — a striking structural gambit alongside his separate call for a US-led international AI standards forum. Talks are preliminary and would likely need congressional approval. The move reads as OpenAI trying to buy political durability as it cedes technical ground to Google and Anthropic; builders should watch it as a leading indicator of how AI regulation and public ownership get entangled.