OpenAI reportedly wants all AI companies to give the US government a stake in their businesses, Amazon is ready to deploy the Leo satellite broadband service, and X is making a fresh push for live video with new creator payouts

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OpenAI reportedly wants all AI companies to give the US government a stake in their businesses.
Amazon is ready to deploy the Leo Satellite Broadband Service.
And X is making a fresh push for live video with new creator payouts. It's Thursday, July 2nd. And here's a quick look at some of the news happening in and around tech this morning from Engadget.
OpenAI's Sam Altman has reportedly been in talks with the US government to ensure his company's path towards achieving its goals remains free of political hurdles. According to the Financial Times, Altman has suggested giving the government a 5% stake in the company in order to share the spoils of the AI boom with the public. But his idea doesn't only involve OpenAI.
Under his proposal, other top AI companies like Google, Anthropic, XAI, and Meta would have to agree to give the government a similar stake in their businesses. AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have recently encountered roadblocks from the US government when it came to releasing their latest AI models. Anthropic had to block all access to its mythos and fabled cybersecurity models after being ordered to do so by the Trump administration. It was only recently granted permission to restore users' access to them. Meanwhile, OpenAI had to roll out a limited preview of its GPT-56 model to government-approved partners as requested by the administration as well. In June, Trump had signed a Scaled Back Executive Order which asks AI companies to share their most powerful models for voluntary government review 30 days before making them available to the public. Politicians, including Trump's allies, as well as organizations like the UN, however, are calling for more stringent AI policies. As The Times noted, giving the government part ownership worked for another firm, President Trump used to call for Intel's CEO Lip Butan to resign until his administration took a 10% stake in the chipmaker. Trump even recently boasted that America's stake in Intel is now over $60 billion from $9 billion in 2025
Altman and other OpenAI executives reportedly floated the idea of having leading AI developers give a 5% equity to sovereign funds such as the Alaska Permanent Fund, which pays dividends to the state government and residents. Talks between OpenAI and the government are in their very early stages, though, and The Times says any deal would still require congressional approval.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket left for space in the early hours of this morning, bringing 29 Amazon Leo satellites with it. Amazon says the rocket has successfully deployed the satellites, and that it has already established contact with them in orbit, as well as ensured that they were in working condition. All that remains is raising the satellites to their assigned operational altitude of 392 miles, after which, Leo will be ready to begin providing customers access to its satellite broadband service. This ULA launch, which took off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, brings the total number of operational Leo satellites to over 390 Now, that's enough to support continuous service across initial latitudes, so said Amazon Leo VP Chris Weber. After putting 224 Leo satellites in space, this is the Atlas V's rocket's last mission for the project as well. The next Leo mission will be using ULA's Heavy Lift Vulcan vehicle, which can carry more than 40 satellites for every launch and can fly more frequently, allowing Amazon to expand the service's coverage and capacity more quickly. Of course, with only 390 or so satellites in space, Leo still has a monumental climb to be able to catch up to Starlink. SpaceX's Starlink, after all, has more than 10,000 satellites currently providing its customers' satellite broadband needs. In addition to launching satellites on ULA's Vulcan rockets, Amazon also plans to use Blue Origin's New Glenn vehicle, which can carry more than 48 satellites at once. New Glenn's launch pad exploded during a hot fire test back in May, though, delaying all missions that were planning to use the rocket. But Blue Origin, which was also founded by Jeff Bezos, has been building a new launch pad in earnest so that it can launch New Glenn flights by the end of this year.