President Donald Trump hosted many of the biggest names in artificial intelligence this week — in part to announce that the U.S. government isn’t calling it artificial intelligence anymore. Now it’s super intelligence. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the motivation behind the meeting and what
US President Donald Trump says he has created a new taskforce focused on artificial intelligence, which will be led by Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton. The “Super Intelligence Force” will work to ensure that the US continues to lead in the technology’s development and will coordinate the government’s engagement with the public, Trump posted
The most powerful AI models are often run inside the labs that build them with key safeguards switched off. And the safety tests those labs publish may not reflect how the models are actually used. That’s according to two AI policy researchers at the think tank GovAI. “We can’t trust them completely to tell us
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of “artificial intelligence.” Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to “Super Intelligence,” thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump. “The word super is the best word of all, and it’s the simplest,” Trump said
Trump also reiterated his support for the rapid expansion of data centres – the crucial computing infrastructure that powers AI. The rollout of data centres has drawn pushback around the country over concerns about electricity usage and their potential impact on from communities. Data centre construction has also emerged as a potential political obstacle for
After more than a decade building a caller ID business serving over 500 million users, Truecaller is now taking the scam intelligence it gathered along the way to the open web, with no app or sign-in required. The Swedish company on Sunday launched Scam Checker, a new web and Android service that lets users paste
