Governance

On April 6, 2026, OpenAI released a 13-page policy paper called Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age. It proposes a public wealth fund seeded by AI companies, a robot tax that shifts the tax base from payroll to capital gains, a four-day 32-hour workweek at full pay as an efficiency dividend, a Right to AI treating access as foundational like literacy, automatic safety net triggers when displacement metrics hit thresholds, and containment playbooks for autonomous AI. It is the most comprehensive policy document any frontier AI lab has published. Sam Altman compared the needed response to the Progressive Era and the New Deal. The framing is deliberate: this is an industry asking to be regulated, on its own terms, before someone else writes the rules. And to be clear — the paper is better than silence. It is better than lobbying against governance. It deserves serious engagement. Here is that engagement. ...

Oracle acquired Cerner for twenty-eight billion dollars. Cerner held clinical records from fourteen thousand medical facilities. Oracle then became a Qualified Health Information Network — meaning it could see all medical data in transit. It won the CMS contract — the claims, eligibility, and fraud detection systems for a hundred and fifty million Americans. And it launched a commercial AI platform selling deidentified patient records. The person who led Oracle’s bid for the CMS contract was Seema Verma. Her previous job was running CMS. ...