🍭 Billionaire Balancing Act 💸

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🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• OpenAI wants to tax capital, not labor

• Anthropic previews new security model

• Google Veo 3.1 Lite drops

OpenAI’s
🪙 CEO Says: Tax Capital, Not Workers

The Bite:

OpenAI published a 13-page policy paper titled:
"Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First."

The document proposes sweeping economic reforms including public wealth funds seeded by AI companies, shifting the tax base from labor income to capital and corporate profits, a potential robot tax on automated labor, and subsidized four-day workweeks without pay cuts.

The $852 billion company compared the scale of reform needed to the Progressive Era and FDR's New Deal.

The paper landed the same week JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told shareholders AI will hit "virtually every function" at the bank.

Snacks:

• OpenAI proposes a federally managed public wealth fund that would distribute AI-generated returns directly to citizens

• The company suggests taxing corporate income, capital gains, and automated labor to replace collapsing payroll tax revenue

• Goldman Sachs estimates AI is already cutting ~16,000 U.S. jobs per month, with younger workers hit hardest

• OpenAI president Greg Brockman has donated millions to Trump while the company proposes policies that would raise taxes on capital owners

• Anthropic released its own economic policy blueprint six months earlier

Why it Bites:

The company building the tech that might break the economy just published instructions on how to fix the economy it's breaking.

That's either admirably self-aware or the most sophisticated PR document of the decade.

But the real story isn't the proposals themselves. It’s who's saying it.

OpenAI crossed $25 billion in annualized revenue.
It just converted from a nonprofit to a for-profit.

It has fiduciary duties to shareholders now. And yet here it is, proposing that governments tax the very capital gains its investors are counting on.

The cynical read writes itself: propose reforms bold enough that no Congress will pass them, look responsible, keep building.

A Carnegie Endowment scholar called it a cover for "regulatory nihilism."

The paper dropped the same day The New Yorker published a deep dive that questioned Altman's safety commitments.

Timing is a language.

But the less comfortable read is that OpenAI might be right about the math.

If AI hollows out payroll taxes, which is the revenue that funds Social Security, Medicaid, SNAP, then the fiscal crisis isn't theoretical.

Someone has to say it, and it might as well be the company with the clearest line of sight to the disruption.

OpenAI is betting it can build the future and also design the safety net.

History suggests those are different jobs.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🔐 Anthropic previews “Mythos” security model
→ Anthropic revealed a new AI system focused on security use cases, aiming to detect threats and vulnerabilities more effectively.

🤖 Block drops ManagerBot for Square sellers
→ Block introduced an AI agent that proactively manages operations, offering insights and automations for Square merchants.

🎬 Google launches Veo 3.1 Lite
→ Google released a lighter, faster version of its video generation model, designed for broader access and lower compute costs.

⚡ Anthropic locks in massive TPU deal
→ Anthropic secured a major compute partnership with Google and Broadcom to scale its AI models using custom TPUs.

🧠 OpenAI floats robot taxes + 4-day workweek
→ OpenAI proposes public wealth funds, robot taxes, and shorter workweeks to redistribute AI-driven economic gains.