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The Trump administration wants equity in AI companies and every founder just got a co-investor they never pitched

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The Trump administration wants equity in AI companies and every founder just got a co-investor they never pitched

The Trump administration is weighing government equity stakes in America's top AI companies, with models ranging from a passive 9.9% Intel-style position to Bernie Sanders' 50% sovereign wealth fund proposal. Mike Bloomberg called the idea Orwellian on July 20. For AI founders, every version of this deal lands differently on a cap table.

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