The Trump administration is prioritizing the critical role of artificial intelligence in creating and upholding freedom. Just three weeks in, Vice President JD Vance declared at a global AI summit in Paris that AI "will make people more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way." To achieve this, the White House is working toward an AI action plan and calling on leading American AI companies to submit our best ideas. OpenAI is pleased to submit proposals today on a range of important considerations for AI from national security, to infrastructure and energy, to the federal government's own use of AI.

The heavy gravity of data means that companies can't always adopt the newest technologies as quickly as they would like, which is often the case today with enterprises that want to move to the cloud.

GroupM, the leading digital media investment firm, has released the preview version of its annual report on the state of digital marketing and its impact on marketers and advertisers. The report, titled "Interaction: Preview Edition for Clients and Partners February 2017", is published by GroupM's Worldwide Media and Marketing Forecast, highlighting the challenges in digital marketing across channels. On a positive note, the report predicts the digital share of ad investment in 2017 will jump to around 33%. Interaction 2017 takes a very cautious approach in defining the digital landscape, suggesting the new and old worlds are contributing equally to new marketing technologies in dollar investments since 2013. In 2016, CMOs spent 72 cents of every new dollar on digital advertising, and 21 cents on TV. In 2017, the balance will swing higher -- 77:17, in favor of Digital ad.

What does a truly data-driven business look like as a new age of artificial intelligence dawns--and how do organisations find the right balance among all the moving parts behind big decisions? Emerging technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and conversational agents can create giant leaps of efficiency, meaning, and insight hidden within businesses and the world at large – an enormous opportunity for leaders to make more informed and effective decisions. Seizing the opportunity will require leaders who can weigh the power and influence of both artificial and human intelligence, finding a balanced path that makes the most of each unique capability. In our latest survey we've captured a ground-level view across 2,100 C-suite leaders, business unit heads, and SVPs as they grapple with the biggest choices facing their companies. These leaders say they are sold on the power of data and analytics to deliver insight into key questions they need to answer.

Microsoft Director of Strategic Investments, Limor Lahiani, speaks at Geektime's Techfest in November 2016. Microsoft's director of strategic engagements shows off company's work applying NLP to genetics and other issues impacting humanity Microsoft's director of strategic engagements shows off company's work applying NLP to genetics and other issues impacting humanity The hall of several hundred people listened attentively as the speaker explained in perfectly summarized, yet pointed detail how big data was turning over the biotech industry. She was showing off the way that one of her startups, Miroculus, had begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to match microRNA -- a fraction of DNA that prevents protein production, thus triggering certain genes. "In order to have these genes observable and expressed, there are processes," Limor Lahiani recently said on stage at Geektime's DevFest, describing the process of developing APIs to analyze the corpus of data, manage the extraction, and then classify the information. Lahiani is director of strategic engagements and manager of Microsoft's Partner Catalyst program, a partnership scheme with startups and promising developers to work on cutting edge tech projects.