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OpenAI Offers U.S. Government 5% Stake Worth $42.6B; Bloomberg Warns of Regulatory Capture Risk

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According to Bloomberg Opinion analysis published on July 7, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman proposed giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, valued at approximately $42.6 billion, framing it as a way for Americans to share in AI's economic gains. However, the analysis cautioned that such an arrangement could function as a channel for regulatory capture, citing economist George Stigler's 1971 theory that regulation tends to serve the industries it oversees. With OpenAI's valuation exceeding $850 billion, the stake would position the government as one of the company's largest individual shareholders, potentially complicating future enforcement actions since penalizing OpenAI would reduce the value of the government's own holding.
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