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Trump Calls for U.S. Equity Stakes in AI Companies

6/9/2026

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Trump Seeks AI Stakes

President Donald Trump announced on Air Force One that U.S. will seek equity stakes in AI firms.
He said Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI executives may visit the White House “probably” this week.
It mirrors Senator Bernie Sanders’s bill to tax AI-lab stock 50 % and grant government a 50 % stake.
Trump previously secured a 10 % stake in Intel, with Anthropic valued at $900 billion and AI firms declining comment, leaving leaders split.

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Goldman, Morgan Share

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, SpaceX IPO underwriters, are reportedly sharing internal analyst research with unusually bullish forecasts, a practice barred after the dot-com crash.
Oil prices jumped after Iran and Israel exchanged strikes, while the U.S. stock market remained broadly positive.
The “universal basic capital” plan would turn government artificial intelligence (AI) stakes into dividend payments for households, but opponents say it could increase the risk of future bailouts.

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Historical Context

The SEC, NASD and NYSE forced ten major banks, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, to pay a $1.435 billion fine and erect Chinese walls after the April 28 2003 Global Analyst Research Settlement, which followed the 2000 dot-com bust. That rule-based separation of research from investment banking now underpins concerns about government equity stakes in AI firms and potential repeat conflicts.

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Trump Seeks AI Stakes

President Donald Trump announced on Air Force One that U.S. will seek equity stakes in AI firms.
He said Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI executives may visit the White House “probably” this week.
It mirrors Senator Bernie Sanders’s bill to tax AI-lab stock 50 % and grant government a 50 % stake.
Trump previously secured a 10 % stake in Intel, with Anthropic valued at $900 billion and AI firms declining comment, leaving leaders split.

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