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The Trump administration is reportedly in talks to take a government stake in OpenAI, a move that would mark an extraordinary entanglement between federal power and one of the most influential AI companies on the planet. No deal terms have been finalized, but the conversation alone signals how seriously Washington now views AI as strategic infrastructure.
Speaking of OpenAI, the company is also rolling out what it calls Lockdown Mode, a feature designed to shield sensitive data from prompt injection attacks. These attacks trick AI systems into leaking or mishandling private information by embedding malicious instructions into content the model reads. It is a meaningful acknowledgment that as these tools handle more real-world data, the attack surface grows with them.
And on a different kind of power play, Google has partnered with Voltus to tap into thousands of ordinary American households, aggregating their smart thermostats and home energy devices into what amounts to a virtual power plant. Rather than waiting years for new grid infrastructure, the company is quietly stitching together existing capacity to feed its ever-hungry data centers. Clever, distributed, and just a little invisible.
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