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America will be AI DOMINANT!" Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. In recent weeks, a fresh crop of people connected to the artificial intelligence industry have emerged to warn that AI is possibly going to kill us all, spreading the word with various degrees of credibility or self-interest. Anthropic chief and co-founder Dario Amodei has also called to slow down the development of AI technology, a recommendation that Sam Altman of OpenAI and even notorious good judgment-haver Elon Musk quickly cosigned. Meanwhile, the Trump administration and the president himself have continued to insist that AI is essential for American technological advancement and military might. As a very strange public debate has ensued, it's become clear that Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and other people connected with the administration view AI as an essentially masculine tool: "dominant," a word they keep using over and over, powerful, and able to be kept in check only by a strong ruler. The Trump administration has become a place where very odd politics around both gender and "wokeness" are constantly on display. Trump issued a garbled executive order immediately upon retaking office that attempted to redefine "male" and "female ." Hegseth is obsessed with testosterone, announcing in July that military members will be screened for low T regardless of their gender. The intense focus on gender and wokeness has also been true of their approach to AI: Last year, the administration promised that it would require AI companies with federal contracts to make sure their large language models match the administration's views on things like climate change; transgender identity; and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Trump has turned "a debate about technology into a debate about who's got the phallus." It's now increasingly obvious that Trump and his administration view AI technology as something akin to a large, dangerous dog that only a masculine owner can control. Trump has repeatedly called warnings that AI could harm human beings "a hoax," writing on TruthSocial that the "only control or'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" "The people that say AI is going to destroy the World, and that Data Centers are bad for your neighborhood, are the same people that said, just a short time ago, that the World would be extinguished by'Climate Change,'" the president also posted, with his trademark random capitalization. "That HOAX never worked out for them, and now they're on to the next one.

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Image caption, No ice cream and compulsory lentils in school meal shake-up says the Daily Telegraph, writing that the government will announce rules that will force schools to put pulses on the menu at least once a week in England. Elsewhere, the paper leads with a plea from 800 pub, restaurant and hotel leaders urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to cut VAT from 20 to 10%. The appeal comes days after Mr Burnham blindsided the industry by handing local authorities the power to impose unlimited tourist taxes, the paper adds. Image caption, The Daily Express reports that Labour tourist tax will hammer seaside B&Bs, with the Conservative Party warning that family businesses and staycation parents pay cost of benefits bill. Céline Dion's triumphant return to concert stage also features on the front page.

"Families shouldn't have to pay for the AI boom with their health." The Stargate Oracle AI data center in Abilene, Texas, a project with Open AI, will span roughly 4 million square feet. Completion is expected by year's end. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. While tech oligarchs grandstand about the existential danger AI superintelligence poses to humanity, former Environmental Protection Agency officials say we should be worried about a more immediate threat to our health: the data centers that power those AI models. The former EPA researchers, now working with the nonprofit Environmental Protection Network, are warning in a new report that since January 2025, Donald Trump's EPA has embarked on a systematic weakening of pollution safeguards, permitting processes, inspection norms, and other guardrails--at least 30 different actions--that could increase the health risks associated with the data center boom.

Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK. Will Reform Have To Give Their Mega Donations Back? After Reform's £72 million record donations, we're looking at whether they'll be allowed to keep the money. Legislation is going through Parliament that could limit the amount of money foreign donors can give, and be applied restrospectively, but Robert Jenrick has said the recent donations were entirely in line with the law. And there's been a shift in tone from tech bosses since the concerns about AI raised by researchers this week. We look at what a more controlled future for AI might look like.

'Nigel hits the jackpot' and'Dark day for democracy' Image caption, Almost every paper on Sunday leads on a record-breaking double donation of £72m to Reform UK over the weekend. The Daily Mail declares Nigel hits the jackpot, describing the way the jubilant Reform UK leader hailed it as an investment in democratic renewal. Farage told the paper that the £72m war chest would be used to professionalise the party. Image caption, The donation to Reform UK was courtesy of two cryptocurrency billionaires, according to the Sunday Times, who each gifted the party £36m. The paper calls it an unprecedented cash injection for Reform UK, and says the previous highest political donation was £10m, which was left to the Conservative party in a will.