[Senior U.S. Officials Consider Accepting 'Voluntary Transfer' of Shares from AI Giant Companies] BlockBeats News, June 5th — According to three sources familiar with the matter, senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with several major artificial intelligence companies regarding the possibility of the federal government acquiring portions of these companies' shares. Two of the sources revealed that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has discussed this idea multiple times with senior officials from the Trump administration since Trump's second term began. Both sources requested anonymity to reflect the internal nature of the discussions. They stated that Altman first directly proposed this concept to President Trump during a conversation in early 2025 and has recently revisited the idea with senior government officials in the past few weeks, aiming to broadly distribute the economic benefits of artificial intelligence to the public. Another AI giant, Anthropic, has not engaged in any discussions with the government regarding providing equity to the federal government. Sources disclosed that while the plan is still under development and details have yet to be finalized, the discussions are centered around encouraging these companies to voluntarily transfer shares to the government. The investment returns could then be used for public purposes, such as distributing dividends to all American households. (Notus) --------------------------------- Click the link below to access the original article and join the Beating · Feishu AI News Channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI trends and news. [Original Link]