Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the "Public Wealth Fund" that OpenAI outlined earlier (CNBC)

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OpenAI and the White House are discussing a government equity stake, signaling a potentially major state-backed AI financing model.

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<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260605/i32.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260605/p32#a260605p32" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/">CNBC</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/trump-open-ai-altman-stake.html">Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the &ldquo;Public Wealth Fund&rdquo; that OpenAI outlined earlier</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the White House are in ongoing talks about a possible government stake in the artificial intelligence company, CNBC confirmed on Friday.</p>