SpaceX may donate stock to Trump’s savings accounts for kids, report says
According to Musk, “every government incentive his companies ever received amounted to ‘less than 2 percent’ of the value of Tesla and SpaceX,” Yahoo Finance reported.
The Trump administration could also face obstacles beyond companies’ resistance to striking stock deals for public benefit. No one is sure what complications may arise from “the US trying to effectively regulate something it partially owns,” NOTUS reported, and such deals could “arguably” increase “incentives for a federal bailout.”
There may also be no legal mechanism yet “for any AI firm to turn over equity to the government,” NOTUS reported.
Nat Purser, a senior policy advocate for AI policy at Public Knowledge, told NOTUS that the public should be cautious in embracing policies that create “a situation where the government becomes less willing to impose, or enforce, safety rules because doing so could reduce the value of its own investment.”
“The problem is that...
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