AI News — July 03, 2026

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OpenAI floats giving Trump administration 5 percent cut of AI boom
AI | The Verge
OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest
Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
At an internal meeting, the Meta CEO reportedly said that AI development efforts were not moving as quickly as anticipated.
Jersey Mike’s IPO illustrates how bad the AI hype has become
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Just for kicks, I took a look at Jersey Mike's IPO documents. Surely a sandwich shop would have no need to mention AI. But lo and behold.
Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental AI app that lets users generate and share interactive mini games using text prompts.
Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.
OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.
Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI, and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.
Yep, we’re using OpenClaw to date now
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Ben Guez has "a bunch of potential international wives in [his] DMs," thanks to an automated script he set up using OpenClaw, Claude code, and Instagram trials.
Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office
AI News & Artificial Intelligence | TechCrunch
Neo is Bhavin Turakhia’s fifth venture and his latest involving enterprise software. This time he's taking on Microsoft Office and Google Apps with AI.
NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science
AI News
Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientists to converse direct