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Where the Trump administration and the technology industry intersect, covering tariffs, export rules, platform policy and federal contracting.
Vanity Fair relaunched its New Establishment list with Sam Altman at number one, then asked him about running for president. His answer was one word. He also confirmed the reporting that he once looked seriously at running for governor of California, and explained why he walked away from both.
An executive order directs every federal agency to say “Super Intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence.” The capabilities do not change, the statutory definition carries over, and the term already has a precise and very different meaning in AI research.
Dario Amodei’s warning about AI agent swarms sparked two competing bills in Congress, one demanding a kill switch, the other seeking an outright ban on superintelligent AI.
A phone was carried onto the stage at the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang answered it, and the President of the United States spent five minutes on speakerphone calling AI safety concerns a hoax. The word was doing more work than it sounded like.
An AI generated clip of US forces destroying Iran’s Kharg Island was posted from the President’s Truth Social account, and the Department of Defense had to step in and clarify it was not real. The verification shortcuts most people rely on all failed at once. Here is why, and what actually works.
Google Maps renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America for US users three days after Trump signed the order. Apple Maps has not moved, so the President called Apple directly. The mechanism behind all of it is one row in a federal database.
A national emergency declaration restricts foreign made transformers, breakers, inverters and grid control software. The catch is that a replacement transformer already carries a 128 week wait, and US power demand is climbing for the first time in fifteen years.