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Altman met Bernie Sanders for an hour on public ownership of AI, no deal.

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2026-06-08

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At Altman's request, the two met after Sanders proposed a 50% stock tax routing half of every major US AI company into a public sovereign wealth fund. Altman said he also wants public equity but couldn't back the 50% figure that would hand the public decision-making power. No agreement. With Altman simultaneously courting the Trump administration on a federal stake, the ownership-of-AI question is now a live cross-partisan negotiation. Worth watching not for the politics but because it could reshape how frontier labs are structured.

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