The Trump administration revealed details of its highly anticipated artificial intelligence plan of action ahead of President Donald Trump's major speech later on Wednesday, which is expected to also include the president signing at least one executive order related to the U.S.' artificial intelligence race. Administration leaders, including White House Office of Science and Technology policy director Michael Kratsios and AI and crypto czar David Sacks, held a background call with the media Wednesday morning and outlined a three-pillar plan of action for artificial intelligence focused on American workers, free speech and protecting U.S.-built technologies. "We want to center America's workers, and make sure they benefit from AI," Sacks said on the call while describing the three pillars. "The second is that we believe that AI systems should be free of ideological bias and not be designed to pursue socially engineered agendas," Sacks said. "And so we have a number of proposals there on how to make sure that AI remains truth-seeking and trustworthy. And then the third principle that cuts across the pillars is that we believe we have to prevent our advanced technologies from being misused or stolen by malicious actors. And we also have to monitor for emerging and unforeseen risks from AI." President Donald Trump is expected to deliver a major speech focused on artificial intelligence on July 23, 2025.

For more than a decade, the Chinese government has been working to push the Chinese manufacturing sector up the value chain. More recently, the push from the central government has become more formalized, resulting in the 2015 issuance of the State Council manufacturing modernization manifesto: Made in China 2025《中国制造2025》(State Council, July 7, 2015). Made in China 2025 focuses less on the types of products to be manufactured and more on the methods of manufacturing. It is okay to continue making rubber duckies, so long as the process for doing so is modernized. That is, massive automated factories churning out thousands of identical items with minimal human intervention.

The State Council, China's Cabinet, recently issued a national artificial intelligence development plan. This is a major step for its innovation-driven development strategy and making the country a global leader in science and technology. The three-step plan clarifies the strategic objectives for China's new generation of artificial intelligence. By 2020, the overall level of China's AI technology and its use should catch up with the world's leading level, by 2025 there should be major breakthroughs in theoretical research and progress in building an intelligent society, and by 2030 China should be one of the major artificial intelligence innovation centers globally. The plan advances six key tasks: establishing an open and synergetic artificial intelligence science and technology innovation system, cultivating a high-end and highly efficient intelligent economy, building a safe and convenient intelligent society, enhancing military and civilian integration in the artificial intelligence field, setting up safe and efficient intelligent infrastructure systems for the internet and big data, and deploying significant technology projects centered on a new generation of artificial intelligence.

Apple is lifting the veil on some of its work in the red-hot field of artificial intelligence. The consumer technology giant debuted Wednesday a website that highlights the company's various AI-related research projects. Named the Apple Machine Learning Journal, the tech giant is pitching it as a way for people to read about the work of its various engineers working on cutting-edge AI techniques like deep learning. Get Data Sheet, Fortune's technology newsletter. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Apple's director of AI research, announced the debut of the website via Twitter.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has revealed the Australian government will be among the first in the world to deploy artificial intelligence "bots" to deal with inquiries from citizens. As the tech giant looks to lead in the new era of cognitive computing, Mr Nadella told a technology developers' conference in Sydney on Wednesday morning that increasingly intelligent technology would allow human-like interaction with complex business systems. Mr Nadella told The Australian Financial Review after the speech that the Department of Human Services had completed the largest deployment of the Windows 10 operating system in the Asia-Pacific region and was now working on AI-powered applications. He said the DHS was working to create a smart software-driven conversational bot, which could help in reducing the amount of time citizens had to wait to speak to human staff.