<p>Google Maps officially updated the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Monday. Among many other executive orders, President Donald Trump decreed on the day of his inauguration that the Gulf of Mexico would be renamed the Gulf of America. This executive order also reverses an Obama-era move to rename [&hellip;]</p>

<p>OpenAI says it has spoken to government officials about its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek. The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI&#8217;s API. During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI&#8217;s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the company has talked with government [&hellip;]</p>

<p>With TikTok&#8217;s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the ByteDance-owned company is now encouraging Android device owners to sideload its video app onto their phones and tablets. The company announced in a Friday X [&hellip;]</p>

<p>All eyes were on French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday at the end of the first day of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris after he announced a €109 billion investment package (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) in the French AI ecosystem. He reiterated this financial commitment from private partners willing to build [&hellip;]</p>

<p>As the AI Summit got underway in Paris on Monday, some 60 European companies —&nbsp;from incumbent industrial giants to AI startups (including France&#8217;s large language model maker Mistral) — signed up to an initiative to help establish Europe as a leader in AI. But the fact that they felt the need to sign up at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Make room for yet another partnership on AI. Current AI, a &#8220;public interest&#8221; initiative focused on fostering and steering development of artificial intelligence in societally beneficial directions, was announced at the French AI Action summit on Monday. It&#8217;s kicking off with an initial $400 million in pledges from backers and a plan to pull in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford researcher who also founded World Labs, was invited to the Grand Palais in Paris on Monday to give the opening speech at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit that is taking place this week. While she shared some of her talking points over the weekend, her stance on AI regulation and the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Late Sunday local time, French president Emmanuel Macron announced a total of €109 billion in private investments in the AI ecosystem &#8212; or around $112 billion at current exchange rates. Paris is hosting the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit this week — the third international summit focused on AI after earlier events in Bletchley Park in [&hellip;]</p>

<p>President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal. Soon [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk recently said he is “not champing at the bit to acquire TikTok.” Musk made those remarks during an interview at the WELT Economic Summit on January 28. A video of the interview was published today. The interview came after President Donald Trump delayed a law requiring parent company ByteDance to sell TikTok or [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Fei-Fei Li, the Stanford computer scientist and startup founder sometimes known as “the Godmother of AI,” has outlined “three fundamental principles for the future of AI policymaking” ahead of next week’s AI Action Summit in Paris. First, Li said policy must be based on “science, not science fiction.” In other words, policymakers should focus on [&hellip;]</p>

<p>On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, e-commerce company Shopify published a blog post making its stance on U.S. trade policy clear. In the post, Shopify endorsed &#8220;open trade,&#8221; calling for regulators to give online merchants the &#8220;freedom to expand without constraints imposed by geopolitical [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one of them in 2023, when his life looked very, very different. </p>

<p>Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google&#8217;s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. &#8220;I&#8217;m very glad that Google has changed its stance,&#8221; Ng said during an onstage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government&#8217;s decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The group, which includes U.S. tech outfits such as Yelp, DuckDuckGo, and Mozilla, says that the CMA must be &#8220;free from political [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Amazon is the latest tech company to remove references to “inclusion and diversity” from its&nbsp;10-K report.&nbsp;The filing has removed reference to diversity and inclusion as it pertains to the workplace. In its 2023 10-K form, the company had a sentence that read, “As we strive to be Earth’s best employer, we focus on investment and [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Under European Union law, X is one of a handful of major social media platforms that has a duty to facilitate public interest researchers&#8217; access to support the study of systemic risks &#8212; such as to elections and other democratic processes. But the Elon Musk-owned company formerly known as Twitter has been blocking civil society [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Pinterest listed the latest attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a possible business risk in its latest 10-K filing.&nbsp; The company wrote in its filing to investors that if its efforts around DEI “are perceived as insufficient or overdone,” then it “may not be able to attract and retain talent” and that the company [&hellip;]</p>

<p>A few days ahead of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, the French presidency has announced the first of several expected financial initiatives related to AI. France&#8217;s Emmanuel Macron and the United Arab Emirates&#8217; Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan have signed an agreement for a significant investment to build a massive data center dedicated [&hellip;]</p>

<p>India&#8217;s central bank is introducing an exclusive &#8220;.bank.in&#8221; domain for banks from April 2025 as part of efforts to combat rising digital payment frauds and bolster trust in online banking services. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) will serve as the exclusive registrar for the new domain, the Reserve Bank of [&hellip;]</p>