One further force promoting AI innovation could be defence spending. America puts only a tiny fraction of its $850bn defence budget into AI. Silicon Valley executives hope that the Trump administration will allow more participation by startups building AI weapons and systems in the competition for defence contracts.

President Trump hosted executives from Softbank, OpenAI and Oracle at the White House Tuesday to announce “Stargate,” a $500BN private-sector plan to build new AI data centers.

On the bright side, Emanuel’s final journey seems to be everything he wanted. His delight in the shinkansen’s smoothness, speed, punctuality and efficiency is genuine — as is his despair that the US is not criss-crossed with high-speed rail lines.

Trump is drafting a new blueprint for the presidency, one that demonstrates the primacy of blunt force in a democratic system predicated on checks and balances between the branches of government.

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Video footage and pictures from the Oval Office show President Donald Trump signing off executive orders with a thick, black Sharpie.

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities