OpenAI and other AI labs are in discussions with U.S. officials about the government taking a 5-percent ownership stake in the companies.
Category: TRENDS IN AI – Jul 7 2026
WHITE HOUSE, AI LABS NEGOTIATING STANDARDS FOR MODEL RELEASE
The Trump administration apparently has abandoned its hands-off approach to AI oversight and is in discussions with AI companies to create voluntary standards for the release of “frontier,” or leading-edge, models.
BUSINESSES ARE SHOPPING FOR CHEAPER AI MODELS
As AI burst into the world less than four years ago, companies grabbed for large language models for fear of failing their investors and falling behind their competitors.
U.N. WARNS OF CATASTROPHIC AI RISKS
Every four to seven months, AI models are doubling their ability to handle complex assignments, outpacing both government policies regulating them and their own designers’ understanding of them, according to a new assessment by the United Nations Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence.
COMPANIES USING AI THE MOST ARE HIRING THE MOST, STUDY FINDS
So far, AI boosters’ claims that AI will create widespread jobs haven’t come true except, it seems, in companies that are making the most use of AI.




