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What’s with Donald Trump and renaming things? First, the Gulf of Mexico became the Gulf of America — in US federal documents, if not globally. Then Lake Ontario became Lake America. Now he wants to rebrand the defining technology of our time: artificial intelligence (AI).

Companies are selling AI to lawyers faster than courts can fine them for using it.

The Japanese government has set a goal of placing 10 million robots driven by artificial intelligence into workplaces before 2040, hoping to offset a rapidly thinning workforce in its aging population.

Alibaba opened its annual Apsara Conference in Hangzhou with three big numbers: a chip that it says triples the performance of its predecessor, AI clusters that could stretch to 500,000 of those chips, and a pledge, quoted by the South China Morning Post, that the data centers Alibaba Cloud operates worldwide will pass 20 gigawatts…

The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called “Polygraph+” or “Polygraph Next”, will focus on scoring algorithms that use artificial intelligence and machine learning and on a technique called “standoff sensing”, which…

Lindsey Elliott is big into bolts. At last year’s Bolting Symposium — the 13th annual — she said the highlight was playing “Bolting Bingo” against the many self-proclaimed “torque dorks” who were in the room.

Recent reports claiming that General Motors is reversing course on its controversial plans to ditch CarPlay in its future EVs appear to be incorrect.

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Newsom’s executive order calls for an expert panel to develop new AI safety measures.

NVIDIA, Google and Emerald AI have launched a new coalition called the AI Energy Management Alliance (AEMA), the companies announced. The aim is to promote more flexible AI data centers that won’t be disruptive to electricity grids or require massive, taxpayer-funded upgrades. In exchange, the coalition wants utility operators to connect their data centers faster.