OpenAI offers US govt 5% stake

OpenAI

OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, Luna) with breakthrough agentic capabilities in cybersecurity and coding, deploying extensive AI-powered safety measures and coordinating with U.S. government on a phased release that balances capability advancement with robust misuse protections.

TechCrunch

Base44 launched its own LLM trained on user data to reduce costs and increase defensibility in the competitive vibe-coding market, reflecting a broader trend of AI startups moving away from relying solely on third-party frontier models. The company aims for vertical integration across distribution, data, and infrastructure as competition intensifies from both specialized startups and frontier AI labs entering the coding space.

Financial Times

OpenAI has proposed offering the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, representing a notable development in the relationship between AI industry leaders and federal authorities amid increasing scrutiny of AI's strategic importance.

TechCrunch

AI chip startup Etched reached a $5 billion valuation with $800 million raised and $1 billion in orders for specialized inference chips, riding the wave of investor interest in solving AI's biggest cost bottleneck as competitors like Cerebras and Groq also attract massive funding.

Anthropic

Anthropic restored access to its most powerful AI models after a three-week government-mandated suspension triggered by a cybersecurity jailbreak discovery, announcing new industry-wide jailbreak assessment standards and expanded government pre-deployment testing partnerships to prevent future incidents.