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Saturday morning President Trump announced he's creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
"I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as "a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning."
TRUMP: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 [...] and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.
It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now [...] they are going straight at AI. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!
However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI "Czar" — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!
Trump concluded by saying AI "is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful... We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!"
But what exactly is AI Force? "The White House did not immediately respond to a request to clarify whether the agency would be military or civilian," notes the Washington Post. So now "The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement," Politico reported Saturday afternoon:
Four representatives for the sector, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO that the industry was not widely informed of Trump's decision prior to the Truth Social post. "Nobody knows what the idea even is," one of the people said. Another said that feedback on the idea was not widely solicited within the industry. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
"I think that he clearly feels pressure to say something, but he's torn because he's just spent the last few days saying that the whole thing is a hoax," Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, said of Trump and his prior dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios. Since the departure of David Sacks, who stepped down as the Trump administration's previous AI czar earlier this year, the White House has been "making up AI policy as it goes," Kovacevich added. "I think it's clear they've really missed the presence of an organized leader like David Sacks was."
One of the tech industry representatives said they were confused about whether the task force would be charged with formulating more AI regulations or recommending policies that would further stimulate the tech's development. Taylor Barkley, director of federal government affairs at the industry-aligned Abundance Institute, is eyeing it as a way to solidify a light-touch government approach to the technology he says will foster innovation. "Any AI Force or AI Czar should have one job: keep the field open so entrepreneurs at every scale can compete, free from onerous regulation," he told POLITICO. "Existing criminal and civil law can handle bad actors. New permission regimes will stifle the very activity America needs most."
It's worth noting that the day before, California's governor made an announcement. "With Donald Trump and Congress asleep at the wheel, Governor Gavin Newsom is once again taking the lead to strengthen AI safety for all Americans," the governor's office announced Friday. Newsom issued a strong executive order convening experts to help California create new AI safety laws and reporting rules, possibly even requiring safety auditors embedded in labs and emergency "kill switches" in frontier models.
"I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as "a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning."
TRUMP: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 [...] and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.
It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now [...] they are going straight at AI. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!
However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI "Czar" — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!
Trump concluded by saying AI "is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful... We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!"
But what exactly is AI Force? "The White House did not immediately respond to a request to clarify whether the agency would be military or civilian," notes the Washington Post. So now "The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement," Politico reported Saturday afternoon:
Four representatives for the sector, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO that the industry was not widely informed of Trump's decision prior to the Truth Social post. "Nobody knows what the idea even is," one of the people said. Another said that feedback on the idea was not widely solicited within the industry. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
"I think that he clearly feels pressure to say something, but he's torn because he's just spent the last few days saying that the whole thing is a hoax," Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, said of Trump and his prior dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios. Since the departure of David Sacks, who stepped down as the Trump administration's previous AI czar earlier this year, the White House has been "making up AI policy as it goes," Kovacevich added. "I think it's clear they've really missed the presence of an organized leader like David Sacks was."
One of the tech industry representatives said they were confused about whether the task force would be charged with formulating more AI regulations or recommending policies that would further stimulate the tech's development. Taylor Barkley, director of federal government affairs at the industry-aligned Abundance Institute, is eyeing it as a way to solidify a light-touch government approach to the technology he says will foster innovation. "Any AI Force or AI Czar should have one job: keep the field open so entrepreneurs at every scale can compete, free from onerous regulation," he told POLITICO. "Existing criminal and civil law can handle bad actors. New permission regimes will stifle the very activity America needs most."
It's worth noting that the day before, California's governor made an announcement. "With Donald Trump and Congress asleep at the wheel, Governor Gavin Newsom is once again taking the lead to strengthen AI safety for all Americans," the governor's office announced Friday. Newsom issued a strong executive order convening experts to help California create new AI safety laws and reporting rules, possibly even requiring safety auditors embedded in labs and emergency "kill switches" in frontier models.
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Bridget Phillipson says Burnham’s past criticisms of US president not an issue as PM prepares to meet Trump at UN
Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.
Burnham is expected to meet Trump early next week at the UN general assembly summit in New York, the pair having previously spoken twice by phone since Burnham entered No 10.
Continue reading...Raised on punk, alt-comedy and the church, Cregger’s Lynchian approach to horror is anything but typical. After two wildly original hits, his pivot to a 30-year-old video game has caused a storm among protective fans
When Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s debut film as a solo writer-director, came out in 2022, it was a big success, creating a buzz among horror connoisseurs, garnering good reviews, and grossing $46m. Then his second film, Weapons, came out in 2025 and did even better. Mounting industry buzz around the project crystallised into a fierce bidding war; Jordan Peele was reportedly desperate to produce and, incensed by his failure to secure the rights, allegedly fired his managers. The rumours went viral, resulting in a wave of incredible PR that saw the film wildly outperform box office expectations and win an Academy Award (for Amy Madigan’s blunt-fringed, bonsai-pruning best supporting actress turn as instantly classic villain Aunt Gladys).
Even if Cregger had not had a box-office smash that crossed over into awards contention, there would still be an atmosphere of hushed expectation around his next move. Both Barbarian and Weapons addressed hot-button issues – sexual assault and school shootings, respectively – while resisting easy interpretation. Both, too, started out seemingly heading in one narrative direction, before thrillingly careening off elsewhere. Thus, with just two features, Cregger had established a reputation for totally terrifying, utterly unpredictable and – most importantly – genuinely original movies.
Continue reading...Another true-crime drama about a woman accused of murder is hitting our screens, feeding into our culture’s unhelpful obsession with ‘female rage’
On 20 June 1893, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a packed courtroom waited with bated breath for the jury to return its verdict following a gruelling double-murder trial. Against a backdrop of intense media interest, they had heard the prosecution argue that the accused had hacked to death their own parents with a hatchet, had burned their clothing to hide evidence of blood, and had done so out of hatred. The question the jury was asked to answer was simple – was Lizzie Andrew Borden guilty of murdering her father and stepmother? Jurors took just one hour to reach a decision: not guilty.
Yet, almost as soon as the trial came to an end, the mythmaking around Borden began – from fevered speculation about her motives and the infamous nursery rhyme to the many film and TV retellings of the story. The latest incarnation, Netflix’s Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story, opens with an axe-wielding Borden committing the murders, and frames the crimes around a fictionalised queer romance between her and the family’s housemaid, Bridget Sullivan.
Continue reading...The multidisciplinary artist delves into pockets of history, including within her family, for the largest ever debut of new work staged at the Guggenheim
Taryn Simon is seated in a conference room at the Guggenheim, looking dazed. Her new show, Father Country I Do Love You, opens in under three weeks. It’s a big deal, the first monographic exhibition by a photography-based artist in the iconic spiral rotunda, and the largest debut of new work ever staged at the museum. There’s still a lot of work to be done.
Downstairs, the lobby is being transformed into the Bangkok living room of Jim Thompson, a silk businessman-slash-spy who disappeared in 1967. Simon’s father, a US government worker, was living in Thailand at the time and figured that the Chinese got him, if not a tiger. When Simon was nine, the father and daughter recreated Thompson’s famous wood-panelled den back in Long Island. “And then I built it here with fake teak,” she says, voice wilting. “It’s driving me nuts. I’ve spent so much time trying to make non-teak look like teak.”
Continue reading...Six-part drama Gènesi tells the story of Adriá’s Catalan restaurant El Bulli from the day he arrived as a kitchen hand
Revered and reviled, during the 28 years he presided over El Bulli, a small restaurant in a remote corner of Catalonia, Ferran Adrià changed cooking for ever.
Now he is the subject of Gènesi (Genesis), a six-part TV drama screening on Catalan television with a worldwide release later in the year that recounts the story of El Bulli from the day he arrived there in 1983 as a kitchen hand with no background at all in haute cuisine.
Continue reading...Als een miljonair wordt gevraagd wat de 'slechtste' en de 'beste' kant is van rijk zijn, dan verwacht je dat het antwoord respectievelijk 'niets' en 'alles' is. Maar dat gaat niet altijd op.
Aan rijk zijn kleven ook tal van nadelen. Op de vraag- en antwoordsite Quora noemt een Amerikaanse miljonair (onbekend of het een man of vrouw is) van in de dertig die fortuin maakte in de it-business er vier: Rijk zijn is waarschijnlijk niet de moeite waard. Maar zodra je het bent, wil je het ook blijven.’
Het maakt je lui ‘Nu ik niet meer hoef te werken, doe ik bijna niets anders dan internetten. Op den duur wordt dat meer dan vervelend.’
Je wilt steeds meer geld ‘Ondanks dat ik rijk ben, ben ik niet tevreden. Ik verlang naar meer.’
Je wordt arrogant ‘Ik wil worden behandeld als een vorst als ik 1000 dollar per nacht betaal voor een hotelsuite of 500 dollar voor een diner in een restaurant met 3 sterren. Ik word kwaad als dat niet gebeurt.’
Je hebt geen echt doel meer ‘Ik heb mijn ultieme doel al bereikt en ik heb gepiekt. Wat moet ik nu nog doen? Ik kan wat liefdadigheidswerk gaan doen, maar dat is niet intellectueel stimulerend genoeg.
Ik denk dat ik een beter mens ben als ik niet zoveel geld maar een gewone baan zou hebben. Maar het is onmogelijk om het geld op te geven.
ZAANDAM (ANP) - Atlete Asayech Ayichew heeft de veertigste editie van de Dam tot Damloop op haar naam geschreven. De 21-jarige Ethiopische verbeterde met een tijd van 50.05 het record van de Noorse hardlooplegende Ingrid Kristiansen, die in 1987 tot een tijd van 50.31 kwam.
Kristiansen was eregast bij de jubileumeditie. De inmiddels 70-jarige Noorse stond bij de finish toen Ayichew over de streep kwam. Voor Ayichew was het de tweede zege in de Dam tot Damloop. Ze was eerder de snelste in 2024.
De Dam tot Damloop is een wedstrijd over 10 Engelse mijlen (16,1 kilometer) van Amsterdam naar Zaandam. Voor de jubileumeditie verkocht de organisatie 46.000 startbewijzen.
Ze klinken aardig, behulpzaam en volstrekt normaal. Toch zijn er zes alledaagse zinnetjes waarmee een gesprek juist wordt dichtgegooid — en wie ze dagelijks gebruikt, merkt dat zelf vaak niet.
Iedereen kent iemand die nooit iets vertelt. Geen zorgen, geen twijfels, en opvallend genoeg ook geen successen. Niet omdat er niets is, maar omdat delen voor sommige mensen simpelweg geen optie voelt. Wie oplet, hoort dat terug in een handvol vaste formuleringen die het gesprek vriendelijk maar effectief afsluiten.
De zes zinnen
- "Hoe is het met jou?" — de vraag als bliksemafleider, gesteld voordat de ander iets terug kan vragen.
- "Het is niet zo ernstig."
- "Ik regel het wel."
- "Geeft niks, het komt wel goed."
- "Ik heb niemand nodig."
- "Dat zien we later wel."
Geen van deze zinnen is verkeerd. Het punt is de frequentie: wie er altijd op terugvalt, gebruikt ze niet als antwoord maar als deur die dichtgaat. En dat is geen test — het zijn signalen, geen diagnose.
"Ik regel het wel" is zelden een mededeling over planning. Het is een mededeling over afstand.
Waarom het schild zo aantrekkelijk is
Deze zinnen zijn beleefd, en dat is precies hun functie. Ze voorkomen dat de ander zich opgelaten voelt, dat er doorgevraagd wordt, dat er iets moet worden toegegeven. In de psychologie heet het structureel wegdrukken van emotie onderdrukking: je voelt wel, maar je laat het niet zien.
Op korte termijn werkt dat. Op langere termijn is de balans minder gunstig. Mensen die emoties gewoonlijk onderdrukken, uiten minder positieve gevoelens, ervaren méér negatieve gevoelens en rapporteren een lager welzijn dan mensen die een situatie leren herwaarderen. Hun contacten met anderen verlopen ook merkbaar moeizamer. Het schild houdt niet alleen de pijn buiten, maar ook de mensen.
Het schild houdt niet alleen de pijn buiten, maar ook de mensen.
Als woorden voor gevoelens ontbreken
Bij een deel van de mensen zit er meer achter dan terughoudendheid. Alexithymie — letterlijk: geen woorden voor gevoelens — is de aanhoudende moeite om eigen emoties te herkennen, te onderscheiden en te benoemen. Wie daar sterk op scoort, grijpt aantoonbaar vaker naar onderdrukken en vermijden en minder vaak naar herwaarderen. Niet uit onwil, maar omdat het vocabulaire ontbreekt.
Wat je er als naaste mee kunt
Doorzagen helpt niet; dat versterkt het schild alleen. Wat wel werkt, is onopvallend ruimte laten. Stel een tweede vraag in plaats van een oplossing aan te dragen. Benoem wat je ziet zonder er een oordeel aan te hangen. Kies een moment waarop er niets op het spel staat — in de auto, tijdens het lopen — in plaats van een aangekondigd gesprek.
En kom je de zes zinnen in je eigen mond tegen: dat is geen karakterfout. Het is het moment om één keer iets anders te zeggen dan "ik regel het wel".
Meer weten?
- GZ-psycholoog Noura Soussi over emoties die je onderdrukt (NPO Radio 1)
- Rijksuniversiteit Groningen: onderzoek naar alexithymie
- Alexithymie: moeite om emoties te voelen of te uiten (Gezondheid.be)
Giovanni van Bronckhorst heeft geen wijzigingen aangebracht in zijn opstelling voor de wedstrijd tegen FC Utrecht. Dat betekent dat Luciano Valente wederom vanaf de linksbuitenpositie start en dat Oussama Targhalline naast Charles Vanhoutte op het middenveld staat. Aanwinst Reiss Nelson zit vandaag wel voor het eerst bij de wedstrijdselectie van de Rotterdammers.
Twintig supermarkten in Dordrecht willen eerder open op zondag. Nu mogen de deuren om 12.00 uur pas open. Dordtse ondernemers hopen daar 10.00 uur van te maken en vragen de gemeenteraad om hulp.
Op de Achterdijk in Arkel is een auto zaterdagavond van de weg geraakt en tegen een boom gereden. Rond 22:30 uur gebeurde het ongeluk. Niemand is gewond geraakt. Volgens ZHZActueel zei de bestuurder tegen de politie dat hij alcohol had gedronken.
