President Donald Trump's controversially announced plans for the US to'take over and own' Gaza last night. While the proclamation drew criticism for'bringing more suffering to the region,' users on social media have used AI to transform the city into a gentrified metropolis with a large building featuring a'Trump Tower' sign glowing in lights at the city center. The rubble-filled streets were transformed into paved roadways lined with towering skyscrapers and areas where buildings had crumbled featured a green golf course surrounded by resorts. The AI-generated images were met with amusement, but others angered at the insensitivity of the creations and warned how'it would be the biggest blackpill ever if a great Biblical city was paved over.' Trump, who spent his career as a property developer, has long talked up Gaza's coastal location and pleasant climate as a perfect holiday vacation. In his vision, US reconstruction would create thousands of jobs and spare Palestinians the pain and expense of rebuilding once again.

A group of suspected Mexican cartel members fired shots at U.S. Border Patrol agents on Monday afternoon as a group of migrants attempted to cross the Rio Grande. After drone video footage surfaced of an apparent cartel-on-cartel gunfight just south of the U.S. border with Mexico, Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas is calling attention to the danger still present at the border. The footage, which Roy obtained from sources on the border, was taken by a cartel drone and shows two sets of vehicles exchanging gunfire near the U.S. border. Video taken by the drone shows the operator eventually drop some type of missile, seeming to eliminate shooters on one side. Speaking with Fox News Digital, Roy said that the knowledge that cartels own drones with weapon capabilities "open[s] up a whole other frontier that we've got to manage and deal with border security."

The release of GPT-3, and later ChatGPT, catapulted large language models from the proceedings of computer science conferences to newspaper headlines across the globe, fueling their rise to one of today's most hyped technologies. The public's awe about GPT-3's knowledge and fluency was quickly blemished by concerns regarding its potential to radicalize, instigate, and misinform, for example, by stating that Bill Gates aimed to "kill billions of people with vaccines" or that Hillary Clinton was a "high-level satanic priestess."4 These shortcomings, in turn, have sparked a surge in research on AI alignment,7 a field aiming to "steer AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals, preferences, and ethical principles" (definition by Wikipedia). A well-aligned AI system will "understand" what is "good" and what is "bad" and will do only the "good" while avoiding the "bad."a The resulting techniques, including instruction fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and so forth, have contributed in major ways to improving the output quality of large language models.

INNOVATIVE STEP FORWARD: Syntilay, a startup with a sparkle in its eye and artificial intelligence on its mind, has just unveiled what it claims to be the world's first entirely AI-designed and 3D-printed shoe. SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence czar, David Sacks, is pointing to evidence that China's DeepSeek AI startup spent a lot more money developing its models than has been reported. ROBOT'S GOT MOVES: Deep Robotics, a Chinese robotics firm, recently unveiled its latest innovation in quadruped robotics, the Lynx. SPUTNIK MOMENT: If you care about national security, artificial intelligence (AI) or the index funds in your retirement account, you have likely heard of DeepSeek. Chinese AI model DeepSeek's release late January caused a 969 billion stock market selloff and prompted responses from AI leaders like President Donald Trump, NVIDIA, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

Fox News correspondent David Spunt has the latest on the debate surrounding President Donald Trump's efforts to overhaul the FBI and Justice Department on'Special Report.' FBI employees who "simply followed orders" with respect to their investigations into Jan. Bove's memo this week accused Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll of refusing to reply to requests from President Donald Trump's administration to identify "the core team in Washington, D.C. responsible for the investigation relating to events on January 6, 2021." "That insubordination necessitated, among other things, the directive in my January 31, 2025 memo to identify all agents assigned to investigations relating to January 6, 2021. In light of acting leadership's refusal to comply with the narrower request, the written directive was intended to obtain a complete data set that the Justice Department can reliably pare down to the core team that will be the focus of the weaponization review pursuant to the Executive Order," Bove wrote.

During the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), held in Jeju, I had the opportunity to meet with one of the keynote speakers, and winner of the 2024 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Professor Nisarg Shah. I asked him about his research, the role of theory in machine learning research, fairness and safety guarantees, regulation, conference reviews, and advice for those just starting out on their research journey. Could you start by telling us about yourself, your career, and your education? Nisarg Shah (NS): I grew up in India and went to IIT Bombay for my undergraduate. Ever since then, I knew that I wanted to go into higher education and academia. I actually did do an industrial placement after my undergrad, and I got a job offer that was very lucrative and would have been more lucrative than doing a PhD. However, that [money] is not why I wanted to do my PhD. I wanted to do my PhD because I was genuinely curious about different questions in this field, and I wanted to study more about them and have fun while doing it.

The Google owner, Alphabet, has dropped its pledge not to use artificial intelligence for purposes such as developing weapons and surveillance tools. The US technology company said on Tuesday, just before it reported lower than forecast earnings, that it had updated its ethical guidelines around AI, and they no longer refer to not pursuing technologies that could "cause or are likely to cause overall harm". Google's AI head, Demis Hassabis, said the guidelines were being overhauled in a changing world and that AI should protect "national security". In a blogpost defending the move, Hassabis and the company's senior vice-president for technology and society, James Manyika, wrote that as global competition for AI leadership increases, the company believes "democracies should lead in AI development" that is guided by "freedom, equality, and respect for human rights". They added: "We believe that companies, governments, and organisations sharing these values should work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security."

Google has dropped a pledge not to use artificial intelligence for weapons or surveillance in its updated ethics policy on the powerful technology. In its previous version of "AI Principles", the California-based internet giant included a commitment not to pursue AI technologies that "cause or are likely to cause overall harm", including weapons and surveillance that violates "internationally accepted norms". Google's revised policy announced on Tuesday states that the company pursues AI "responsibly" and in line with "widely accepted principles of international law and human rights", but does not include the previous language about weapons or surveillance. "We believe democracies should lead in AI development, guided by core values like freedom, equality, and respect for human rights," Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis and research labs senior vice president James Manyika said in a blog post announcing the updated policy. "And we believe that companies, governments, and organizations sharing these values should work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security."

Australia has banned DeepSeek AI services from all government systems and devices, becoming one of the first countries to take direct action against a Chinese artificial intelligence startup that shook Silicon Valley and global markets this year. Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said in a statement Tuesday that all DeepSeek products, applications and services would be removed from government systems on national security grounds effective immediately. A threat assessment by the country's intelligence agencies found the technology posed an unacceptable risk, he said. Founded in Hangzhou only 20 months ago, DeepSeek's technology made waves in January with a new mobile app featuring its reasoning AI chatbot -- which articulates its approximation of thought process and research before delivering a response -- that seemed to suggest top-tier AI could be developed without huge investments in hardware. Its appeal took it to the top of worldwide download charts.

Google on Tuesday updated its principles when it comes to artificial intelligence, removing vows not to use the technology for weapons or surveillance. Revised AI principles were posted just weeks after Google chief executive Sundar Pichai and other tech titans attended the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. When asked about the change, a Google spokesperson referred to a blog post outlining the company's AI principles that made no mention of the promises, which Pichai first outlined in 2018.