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Scoop: Trump eyes AI czar
Mike Allen, Axios AM
Zoom in: The AI czar will be charged with focusing both public and private resources to keep America in the AI forefront.
- The federal government has a tremendous need for AI technology. The new czar would likely work with agency chief AI officers, which were established in President Biden’s AI executive order, and could survive Trump.
- The person also would work with DOGE to use AI to root out waste, fraud and abuse, including entitlement fraud.
- The office would spur the massive private investment needed to expand the energy supply to keep the U.S. on the cutting edge.
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Amazon has agreed to invest another $4 billion in Anthropic, OpenAI’s biggest rival, even as their product feature timeline has accelerated. The new funding brings the tech giant’s total investment to $8 billion, though Amazon will retain its position as a “minority investor”.
