The Public Stake Playbook: Why Trump And Bernie Sanders Just Agreed Your AI Vendor Should Be Half Owned By The Government

Stephen Diaz

Published on: 07/06/2026

Trump is in talks to take a federal equity stake in OpenAI through a Public Wealth Fund concept. Bernie Sanders just dropped a bill calling for 50% government ownership of OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI. Plus Amazon-Anthropic at $125B and Google adding $40B. Here is The 4-Stake Test every business owner should run on their AI stack this week.