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This issue: OpenAI is considering offering the US government a 5% equity stake via a public wealth fund, potentially reshaping collaboration between Washington and AI labs. Meanwhile, AI is transforming healthcare front desks into call centers, GitHub is archiving public repos on CD-ROMs, and Sakana AI has found a cost-effective way to merge models. The AI race now focuses on ownership, funding, governance, and operation of systems, not just model development.
OpenAI proposes giving the US government a 5% stake
The Financial Times reported Thursday that OpenAI has held early talks about voluntarily handing Washington a 5% equity stake worth roughly $42.6 billion at its $852B valuation routed through an Alaska-style public wealth fund that would pay returns to ordinary Americans.
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Highlights
Sam Altman has raised the idea directly with President Trump, Commerce Secretary Lutnick, and Treasury Secretary Bessent
The proposal envisions every leading US lab including Anthropic, Google, and Meta — contributing a similar 5% slice
None of the other labs have signaled they would participate; Anthropic has instead floated a tax-funded "digital dividend"
Senator Bernie Sanders called the offer too small his June bill seeks 50% public ownership of major AI firms
Why it matters: Three weeks ago, the government banned a frontier model. This week a frontier lab offered the government ownership. The relationship between Washington and the AI labs is moving from enforcement to equity and every lab will now have to answer whether it matches, resists, or proposes something else.
How AI-Era Pricing Is Reshaping Finance Operations
Usage-based and hybrid pricing models are changing how B2B companies generate revenue — and creating new headaches for the finance teams behind them.
Tabs co-founder Rebecca Schwartz and PwC Partner Amit Dhir sat down to unpack exactly what that means in practice: how pricing model decisions ripple into revenue recognition, forecasting, and financial ops — and what it takes to scale without piling on manual work.
Watch the on-demand recording to get practical frameworks, real-world examples, and a clear path to operationalizing usage-based revenue — including a forward-looking take on how AI will reshape financial workflows. If your team is navigating pricing complexity heading into the back half of the year, this is worth an hour.
The front desk is becoming an AI call center
Assort Health raised $120M at a $1.2B valuation to scale voice AI agents for healthcare. The platform handles patient calls across scheduling, triage, lab requests, medication refills, insurance eligibility, and payments in multiple languages.
This issue also covers AI delivering care between visits, primary care’s impossible workload, an ECG tool finding hidden heart disease, and an oral GLP-1 pill moving into Phase III all pointing to one bigger shift: healthcare AI is moving into the everyday bottlenecks patients feel first.
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🔥Big news in AI
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🔹GitHub is putting your code on CD-ROM GitHub announced a playful new way to preserve public repos by letting users order them on CD-ROM. You can keep it, lend it, archive it, or pass it down like physical media. The signal is clear: in a world obsessed with cloud and AI, even code is getting a nostalgic “own it forever” moment.
🔹Higgsfield MCP is now free to try Higgsfield is giving new users 100 free credits to generate content with Fable 5 powering Higgsfield MCP inside Claude. The free trial includes full MCP access for 3 days, but the offer is limited. The signal is clear: creative AI tools are moving from standalone apps to agent-connected workflows you can run directly inside Claude.
🔹Vidu S1 brings real-time AI video characters Vidu launched S1, a real-time interactive video model that can generate voice-driven characters with natural reactions, custom appearances, and personalized voices. It supports live video at 540P / 25 FPS, with smoother output up to 42 FPS. The signal is clear: AI video is moving from pre-rendered clips to characters you can talk to, direct, and interact with live.
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Sakana AI found a cheaper way to merge AI models
Sakana AI’s new black-box optimization research shows that two major optimizer families may be variations of the same update equation. The team used that insight to build hybrid methods, AdaPol and SchedPol, for merging large language models without evaluating every step on expensive full datasets.
Image source: Bridging Spherical Black-Box Optimizers
The bigger shift is efficiency. Model improvement is no longer just about training bigger systems from scratch. Better optimization can help researchers combine existing models, search multiple strong solutions, and find high-quality merges with far less compute.
A founder launch stack built from one sentence
This article breaks down how MagicPath turns one startup idea into a pitch deck, landing page mockup, and full brand kit in under a minute.
The build starts with a simple prompt, then generates the pieces founders usually hire separately for: investor deck, validation page, colors, logo, tagline, and brand direction.
The useful part: the full workflow is included exact prompts, six real use cases, and the launch path a solo founder could use tomorrow.
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AI is redrawing the career map
McKinsey’s new Skill Change Index shows how AI is changing the value of different skills, not simply replacing them. Routine, predictable, information-heavy work is more exposed, while skills built around judgment, creativity, leadership, and human context are harder for AI to take over.
This Sunday Special covers the Hack-Nation AI hackathon, a no-code AI anime prompt generator built with Lovable, the AI Marketing Playbook at $1, free AI courses, live events, and five AI career openings. The career map is changing fast — but the next move is still practical: check your skills, build one project, and ship proof.
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