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Section 1. Purpose. The United States continues to lead the world in Artificial Intelligence (AI) because of the enormous talent and innovation of our AI industry, and because we refuse to stifle this ...

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Apple showed off Siri AI demos at its annual WWDC keynote in Cupertino, Calif. Software SVP Craig Federighi and other execs discussed how Siri AI was built in a tech talk following the keynote. Apple ...

The authors are grateful to the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB0470202), National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 52405232, 52275222, ...

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Executive order directs agencies to secure voluntary AI model testing agreements with developers Move marks shift from Trump's previous hands-off tech policy Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to ...