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Sam Altman is making an unusual pitch to Washington. The OpenAI CEO has reportedly proposed giving five percent of the company's equity to a US sovereign wealth fund, a move that would let the broader public share in the financial upside of the AI boom. It's a notable gesture at a moment when OpenAI is navigating a complex transition from nonprofit roots to a for-profit structure, and when scrutiny over who actually benefits from AI is growing louder.
On the productivity side, a new report from Stack Builders offers a candid look at what happens when you hand AI tools to a software team. Open pull requests climbed thirty-six percent, which sounds like a win until you dig deeper. More code moving faster also means more review burden, more potential for subtle errors, and new questions about whether speed is the right metric to optimize for in the first place.
And rounding out today's feed, Manufact, a fresh graduate of Y Combinator's summer twenty twenty-five batch, is building cloud infrastructure specifically for MCP apps and servers. The cofounders Pietro and Luigi previously built an open-source SDK under the name mcp-use, and they're now betting that MCP will need the same kind of dedicated cloud layer that other developer ecosystems eventually required.
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