🤖 OpenAI Offers the U.S. Government a Stake Worth Billions — Plus Anthropic's Secret Deal & the War Over AI's Raw Material

Sam Altman has reportedly pitched giving the U.S. government a five percent ownership stake in OpenAI — a move that could be worth tens of billions of dollars and signals a dramatic shift in how AI labs are managing Washington. Anthropic had its most powerful models suspended by the U.S. government over cybersecurity fears, but struck a deal to get them reinstated — and sources say new security concessions were made behind closed doors. Both Anthropic and OpenAI are now racing to build custom AI chips through new hardware partnerships, aiming to break free from Nvidia dependence. The United Nations is sounding the alarm on AI-driven inequality, pointing to countries like South Korea where AI infrastructure wealth is concentrating among a tiny elite — with bonuses hitting 3,000 percent for some chipmaker employees. In Australia, tech giants are offering over $50 billion in investment in exchange for gutting copyright protections, sparking outrage from musicians and journalists who call it a dirty deal. Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15th to clean up their web crawling practices or face being blocked across publisher sites. Even Meta's Mark Zuckerberg admitted internally that AI agents haven't advanced as fast as he hoped — a rare moment of candor in an industry drowning in hype. And if you needed proof that AI buzzwords have jumped the shark, they've now made it into a sandwich chain's IPO filing.Subscribe to Daily Inference: dailyinference.comLove AI? Check out our other AI tools: 60sec.site and Artificial Intelligence Radio