According to reports by The Financial Times of the UK, OpenAI is planning a controversial move—ceding 5 percent equity in the company to the U.S. government—to ease ongoing tensions with the Trump administration and address growing public dissatisfaction with AI. Insiders revealed that CEO Sam Altman first proposed this idea to Trump as early as last year, stating that giving the public financial stakes was "the best way to share the dividends of AI." Based on OpenAI’s latest funding round valuation of $852 billion, this 5 percent stake would be worth up to approximately $42.6 billion. Notably, the proposal also calls on other American AI companies to cede similar equity to the government, though it remains unclear whether they will accept such terms. Discussions remain at an early stage. This initiative comes against the backdrop of unprecedented interventionist measures taken by the Trump administration toward AI. Its competitor Anthropic has faced repeated constraints—the Pentagon listed it as a supply chain risk, and sudden export controls imposed last month forced the emergency withdrawal of its newest models, sparking widespread anxiety across the U.S. AI industry. On policy fronts, enthusiasm over “dividing the AI dividend” continues to rise among various stakeholders. The Trump administration already holds a 10 percent stake in chipmaker Intel and requires NVIDIA and AMD to remit 15 percent of their sales revenue from China-based AI chips to the federal government. Senator Sanders went further, proposing a one-time 50 percent tax on shares held by AI companies to establish a sovereign wealth fund.