OpenAI offers feds a stake, Anthropic gets out of AI model jail and Meta wants to be a neocloud

OpenAI reportedly has floated giving the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, perhaps the start of a series of such stakes in other AI companies as well. Anthropic models got out of jail as the Trump administration lifted controls on two of its most powerful AI models, but with potentially onerous restrictions. Meta may finally offer cloud services, but agentic AI progress is slower than hoped. AI chip investments surge, with Etched raising $800M and South Korea launching a $584B chip initiative. AWS and Microsoft form professional services teams to accelerate enterprise AI adoption. Experts highlight Enterprise AGI as the real prize.