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Bernie Sanders unveils plan to take 50% stake in AI companies for government wealth fund

Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is arguing that the federal government should establish a sovereign wealth fund that's financed by taking possession of half of the stock in AI giants like OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI, among others.Sanders wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on Sunday that AI companies built and trained their models using the creative work of millions of people to inform generative AI tools, mostly without receiving permission from the creators or compensating them.He explained that those creative works have "essentially been stolen by some of the wealthiest peop...