OpenAI floated giving the Trump admin a 5% stake. Financial Times ran it citing two people familiar with the talks. OpenAI haven't confirmed or denied anything. $852 billion valuation at last count, March 31. That 5% works out to $42.6 billion in paper equity nobody can touch yet. The sequence is what sticks. Six weeks ago NOTUS had senior officials already talking AI equity stakes with major companies. Three weeks ago Commerce spent 18 days reviewing Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before ...