Donald Trump has painted himself as a champion of AI, but his tariffs threaten to add even more cost to processing your AI prompts.
Category: 29 April 2025
TRUMP CALLS HARVARD A THREAT TO ‘DEMOCRACY’ AFTER UNIVERSITY REFUSES TO BOW KNEE TO HIS ADMINISTRATION
U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Harvard last week and called the school a threat to democracy after it refused to bow to his administration’s demand amid his so-called fight against antisemitism on college campuses.
OPENAI SLASHES TIME SPENT CHECKING AI’S SAFETY
OpenAI staffers and independent evaluators recently were given a relatively few days—in some cases less than a week—to assess the newest model’s risks and performance, eight people inside the process recently told the Financial Times.
AI WILL TRANSFORM AMAZON, CEO SAYS
Generative AI will transform customers’ experiences at Amazon and create new ones, CEO Andy Jassey said this month in his annual letter to shareholders.
ONE BIG CLUB: LUTNICK’S SON PLACES BITCOIN BET WITH NEW CRYPTO VENTURE
Cantor Fitzgerald, the brokerage founded by Howard Lutnick, Trump’s billionaire pal and commerce secretary, is looking to cash in on bitcoin after announcing a $3.6 billion crypto venture with SoftBank, Tether, and Bitfinex.
“AI 2027” REPORT OUTLINES A GRIM FUTURE
“AI 2027,” a report from the private, nonprofit AI Futures Project (AIFP), foresees countries using AI within two years to break down each others’ defenses and steal each others’ secrets.
EUROPEAN UNION LAUNCHES PLAN TO BUILD AI “GIGAFACTORIES”
Sensing its economic revival in the works, the European Union (EU) has announced a plan to build a network of AI data centers and related infrastructure—what it’s calling “AI gigafactories”—to lure developers to design and train their new models on the continent.
FETTERMAN WANTS U.S. TO BOMB IRAN ASAP
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said in an interview last week that U.S. President Donald Trump should stop wasting his time trying to negotiate with Iran about its nuclear program and just “waste that shit.”
U.S. IMPOSES NEW SANCTIONS ON IRAN AMID NUKE TALKS
Iran last week rejected the U.S.’s decision to impose new sanctions on the country amid ongoing nuclear talks and said they seem to show a “lack of goodwill and seriousness” amid negotiations.
U.S. TO IRAN: WE OWN YOU… DESTROY YOUR NUKE PROGRAM AND IMPORT ENRICHED URANIUM
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sounded a lot like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week when he said the only way Washington would agree to a deal with Iran is if it kills its civilian nuclear program.