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OpenAI’s 5% Equity Pitch

(They want protection 🇺🇸)

July 03, 2026

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What we’ll cover today:

  • Trump turns AI videos into campaign ammo 🤖

  • OpenAI may give Washington a 5% slice 🇺🇸

  • Anthropic starts looking for Nvidia insurance ⚙️

  • 4 AI tools worth stealing today 🧰

  • Trump posted an AI video of himself as “Dr. Trump” curing “Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

  • The clip uses fake AI versions of celebrities who have criticized him.

  • This is political trolling, but with much better production leverage now.

  • The scary part is simple. Fake content no longer needs to deceive. It just needs to spread.

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  • Sam Altman reportedly wants to give 5% of OpenAI to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund.

  • The friendly version is that citizens share in AI’s upside.

  • The cynical version is that OpenAI is paying for political safety early.

  • Once AI becomes national infrastructure, the government will not stay a spectator.

  • Anthropic is reportedly talking to Samsung about building a custom AI chip.

  • The chip is not fully defined yet, but the strategy is obvious.

  • No serious AI lab wants Nvidia to control its destiny forever.

  • The AI race is becoming less about models and more about who owns the bottleneck.

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📚 RESOURCE

Christian breaks down the 5 phases he’d use to build an AI business today, from validation and launch to monetization and growth, using AI tools to move faster and avoid expensive mistakes.

🔁 ICYMI

🤖 OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 may skip a normal public launch and go partner-by-partner first, because the government now wants a seat inside the model release room. Read the gated launch signal →

🌍 Trump posted an AI image of himself holding the Earth after U.S. strikes on Iranian drone sites, turning a military moment into AI-made mythology. See the Atlas post →

🚀 Musk wants data centers in space, but SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says the math does not work yet, making it feel more like a SpaceX sales deck than an AI roadmap. Read the space compute reality check →

🦅 Trump posted an AI-looking golden eagle on the White House balcony, and the real story is that official channels are now reposting political AI slop like it is normal. See the White House AI eagle →

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