"You make them a partnership in this revolution," Trump told reporters Friday. "It would be a beautiful thing."

When the grid was electrified in the 1930s, it left landowners wealthy and the rest with nothing but displacement. Bernie Sanders doesn't want that to happen again.

US administration is exploring stakes in major AI firms days after Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed public ownership of leading AI companies.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman first pitched the idea directly to President Donald Trump in early 2025, according to Notus

President Trump said he's exploring the federal government acquiring shares in AI companies, likening it to a \

The policy has attracted support from both sides of the aisle on how to respond to AI, but economists still have concerns.

"You make them a partnership in this revolution," Trump told reporters Friday. "It would be a beautiful thing."

Digital news outlet NOTUS reported on Thursday that senior U.S. officials held preliminary discussions with AI companies about the potential for the government to buy some…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss public ownership in AI companies — a meeting that highlighted the tension between AI powerhouses and policymakers.

Sam Altman and Bernie Sanders discussed public ownership in AI firms as concerns grow over jobs, data centres and the benefits of AI expansion.

Trump has embraced government investment in private companies in his second term, scrambling his party's politics. His administration last year secured a 10 per cent stake in the…

OpenAI and the Trump administration are negotiating a direct government stake in the AI startup. The idea is a "Public Wealth Fund" that would pay out directly to American…

Trump will meet AI companies on a plan to give Americans equity in firms like $850bn OpenAI. He has already taken stakes in Intel and IBM. Sanders wants half. No legal mechanism…

"There's something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public."

Trump told reporters that executives from leading AI companies will visit the White House, “probably next week,” to discuss a potential "partnership."

President Donald Trump said he's discussing deals "where the American people can benefit from the success of AI."

"There’s something very interesting about it, where it almost becomes a partnership with the American public," the president said.

"Dario and Sam have begun to walk back their claims of massive job loss, but the damage to public trust is done, and now the chickens are coming home to roost."

Trump says the US government is considering equity stakes in AI firms, with White House meetings with AI executives planned for mid-June to discuss

Trump announced the US may take equity stakes in AI companies like OpenAI, building on the administration's prior Intel investment and reshaping tech

President Trump is considering government equity stakes in leading AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, with a White House meeting set for next week.