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Beatrice Nolan

SHOCKING: Should americans get an equity stake in ai - What They Never Told You

Trump speaking into a mic. (Credit: Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. Beatrice Nolan here, filling in for AI editor Jeremy Kahn, who is in Aspen at Fortune Brainstorm Tech. In this edition…The plan to give Americans a stake in AI…OpenAI files a confidential S-1 with the SEC…Anthropic rings the alarm on “recursive self-improvement'”..and AI consciousness goes mainstream.

Last Friday, President Donald Trump surprised reporters aboard Air Force One by suggesting that the U.S. government may take direct equity stakes in leading AI companies. “There are concepts where pieces could be given to the American public, where the American public essentially becomes a partner,” he told them. “You make them a partnership in this revolution.”

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