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The US government is in talks to take equity stakes in leading AI companies, using a prior Intel deal as the model.
OpenAI's Sam Altman first pitched the idea to Trump in 2025. Could Washington actually become a co-owner of the AI industry?
Today in the “Incredible AI” world:
US Government Eyes Equity In AI Giants
AMD Lost to an Outsider on Its Hardware
AI Memory Boom Crowns SK Hynix Leader
Let AI Optimize Your Landing Pages Faster
5 Super-Useful AI Tools You Should Try
Top AI-Generated Image of the Day
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Trump Wants a Slice of the AI Pie:
The US government owning a piece of OpenAI sounds like a bad startup pitch. But it's a real conversation happening right now, and it started with Sam Altman walking into the White House in 2025.
Things to Know:
The Intel Blueprint: Trump's team is using the Intel deal as the template. The government converted CHIPS Act grants into a 9.9% stake worth roughly $8.9 billion in 2025.
Altman's Pitch: OpenAI's CEO first floated the equity idea to Trump in early 2025. The goal is a public wealth fund that distributes AI profits directly to American citizens.
Who's Involved: OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI are reportedly all in the conversation. Both OpenAI and Anthropic are also heading toward trillion-dollar IPOs soon.
The Pushback: Critics across the political spectrum are nervous. A government that owns AI companies also regulates them, and that's a conflict of interest waiting to happen.
Nobody has signed anything yet, and the gap between a passive 10% stake and Bernie Sanders' proposed 50% takeover is enormous. The real question isn't whether Washington gets a slice. It's how big that slice gets.
Someone Just Beat AMD at Its Own Game:
MoonMath AI just open-sourced an attention kernel for AMD's MI300X GPU, and it outperforms AMD's own optimized library. A small team, some clever memory tricks, and a MIT license. That's the whole story.
Things to Know:
What Was Built: MoonMath released a bf16 forward attention kernel written in HIP. It runs on AMD's MI300X GPU and beats AMD's AITER v3 on every tested shape and rounding mode.
The Secret Sauce: Most of the speed gain comes from smart memory placement. K lives in local memory, V stays hot in L1 cache, and Q sits in registers, cutting unnecessary data movement.
Real-World Proof: A production SGLang pull request used this kernel to speed up Wan2.1 video diffusion by 1.23x. No quality regression, just faster output from the same hardware.
The Fine Print: It only supports head dimension 128 and has no causal mask or grouped query attention. If your workload fits those constraints, you get free speed gains right now.
This is what open source does best. A small team studied the hardware, found what AMD's own engineers left on the table, and published the receipts. The code is free, the speedup is real, and AMD has some explaining to do.
LLM traffic converts 3× better than Google search
58% of buyers now start their research in ChatGPT or Gemini, not Google. Most startups aren't showing up there yet.
The ones that are get cited by the AI tools their buyers, investors, and future hires already use. And they convert at 3×.
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AI Just Crowned a New Memory King:
Twenty-six years. That's how long Samsung sat at the top of South Korea's stock market. Today, SK Hynix took that throne, and the reason behind it is two words: AI memory.
Things to Know:
The Flip: SK Hynix shares jumped 5.7% today, pushing its market cap to $1.35 trillion. Samsung held the top spot since 2000, and it's gone now.
The AI Play: SK Hynix controls 61% of the global HBM market. Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft all depend on its chips to run their AI systems.
The Comeback Story: In 2002, SK Hynix nearly sold itself to Micron to survive debt. Today, it's worth more than the company that almost bought it.
Samsung Pushes Back: Samsung says its preferred shares should count in the tally, which would put it back ahead at $1.46 trillion. The debate is about math. The story is still SK Hynix's.
One memory chip bet made during a brutal industry downturn turned a near-bankrupt company into the most valuable in South Korea. That's not a business story. That's a movie. AI didn't just change tech. It reshuffled an entire country's corporate hierarchy.
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How to Build Landing Pages That Convert with AI:
Running paid ads without a dedicated landing page is basically lighting money on fire. You pay to get someone to click, they land on your homepage, get confused, and leave. The ad budget is gone and you have nothing to show for it.
Unbounce is a landing page builder with AI built into the core of how it works. You build the page, the AI figures out which version converts better for which visitors, and it routes traffic accordingly without you having to babysit the results.
Here's how to use it:
Sign up and pick a template: Start a free 14-day trial and choose from hundreds of conversion-optimized templates sorted by industry and goal. The drag-and-drop editor lets you customize everything, fonts, colors, layout, copy, without touching any code.
Write your copy with AI: If staring at a blank text box is not your idea of a good time, use Smart Copy, Unbounce's built-in AI writing tool, to generate, rewrite, or expand your landing page copy in a few clicks. It works directly inside the editor so there is no switching between tabs.
Set up A/B testing without a developer: Create multiple versions of your page and launch a test with one click. No code, no developer, no waiting. Unbounce tracks how each variant performs and shows you which elements are actually driving conversions.
Turn on Smart Traffic: This is where the AI side really kicks in. Smart Traffic automatically analyzes each visitor and sends them to whichever page variant they are most likely to convert on, based on attributes like device, location, and browser. It starts optimizing after just 50 visits.
Connect your existing tools: Unbounce integrates with HubSpot, Salesforce, Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Zapier, and most other tools you are already using. Leads captured on your landing page flow straight into your CRM or email list without any manual work.
If you are running any kind of paid campaign, whether that is Google Ads, Meta, or a newsletter sponsorship, having a dedicated landing page that actually gets tested and optimized makes a real difference to your results.
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- BEST AI TOOLS -
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Boomy: Boomy lets you create and release original songs in seconds, even with zero music production experience.
Musicfy: Musicfy lets you create AI cover songs in any artist's style and generate original music using AI voice models.
- DAILY POLL AND RESULT -
Today’s Poll:
Q) Should AI draft LinkedIn posts?
Vote and find out the result tomorrow.
Yesterday’s Result:
Q) Is AI changing how people learn languages?
A) Yes, real-time practice - 60% 👑
B) No, immersion needed - 40%
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- AI IMAGE OF THE DAY -
The Sinister Distiller Works Alone in the Forest:
Prompt:
“Hyperrealistic steampunk moonshiner in sinister clown makeup, heavily tattooed, standing on a wooden stool beside a large brass-and-copper still, casually pouring a metal bucket of liquid into the open fill hatch. Hidden forest distillery, hanging lanterns, muddy ground, glowing furnace, steam venting from copper pipes. Candid, unposed, voyeuristic composition. Photorealistic textures, cinematic atmosphere, no eye contact.”
Try this prompt in any decent AI image generator and let me know your result.
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