Washington Eyes OpenAI Equity, Chat Is Dead Says OpenAI, Anthropic's Mythos Is Almost Here

Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of June 8th, 2026. The White House and OpenAI are reportedly in active talks about the U.S. government taking a 1 to 5% equity stake in the company — with shares routed into a public wealth fund designed to give everyday Americans a cut of the AI boom — while former AI czar David Sacks is already calling it a dangerous acceleration of corporate-government fusion. OpenAI is planning its biggest ChatGPT redesign yet in the coming weeks, rebuilding the app as a full agent-and-coding superapp centered around Codex, with one senior executive saying "Chat is dead" as the company pushes its nearly 1 billion users toward paid products ahead of its IPO. Plus, Anthropic's Mythos model started appearing in Dev Mode and across social media this week, fueling speculation of a public release as early as this week — and today's community workflow comes from Laura in Dallas, who built a fully automated pipeline using Codex, ChatGPT, HeyGen, and Remotion that produces custom talking-dog videos as personalized gifts in under 30 minutes, with just two human approval checkpoints.