{"id":773859,"date":"2026-07-02T08:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773859\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:16:13","slug":"sam-altmans-openai-proposes-handing-trump-administration-5pc-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/773859\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5pc stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco | OpenAI has discussed giving a 5 per cent stake to the US government as the $US852 billion ($1.2 trillion) AI start-up seeks to clear political obstacles by securing financial buy-in from the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Altman, chief executive of the ChatGPT maker, has argued that giving the public a financial stake in the company is the best way to share the upside of AI and has suggested a stake of this size in early conversations with the administration, according to two people familiar with the talks.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Financial Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco | OpenAI has discussed giving a 5 per cent stake to the US government as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-773859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}