Government Takes AI Stake

The Signal · 2026-07-03

The federal government may soon own a piece of OpenAI. The company is in talks to hand Washington a five percent stake as it pursues its for-profit conversion. That's far less than Senator Sanders demanded, but it rewrites how government negotiates ownership of AI's biggest.

Also today: Google's electricity use jumped thirty-seven percent this year, its largest increase ever, from AI.

Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to build its own custom AI chip.

Google DeepMind released a faster, cheaper image model and a new video generation tool.

Zuckerberg told Meta staff that AI agents haven't progressed as fast as he hoped.

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