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CNN’s Kasie Hunt insisted that President Donald Trump “really loves” the White House press corps, despite his ban on her network, as well as MS NOW and Politico, for reporting “fake news.” On Saturday, Trump made good on his threat to bar the outlets’ reporters from doing their jobs at the White House. Hunt discussed the ban with former White House Correspondents’ Association president Jeff Mason on Saturday. “One other thing that I think is worth noting about this president, Jeff, and we saw it in some of the books that were written after he lost in 2020, is that he actually loves the press pool that covers him, right?” Hunt said. “Because when you are president of the United States, you snap your fingers and all of a sudden appear people who can tell everyone in the world, really, what you are saying, what you would like to say. And there was some reporting that he went looking for that pool after he had left office and was told that it was unavailable to him.” She then asked, “What power does that give the other television networks as they decide how to handle this situation?” “Well, I’ll share an anecdote,” Mason said. “When I was president of the Correspondents’ Association at the beginning of his first term, there were threats before he came into office about what he and his team were going to do with the press, including kicking us out of the press room, kicking us off of Air Force One. And we negotiated with them about that. And I was very proud that we, for the first term, maintained our presence in both places.” He continued, “The reason I mention that is, I think his team learned very quickly after he became president, that he really liked to be able to say, ‘Bring the pool in.’ So he got really used to the fact that reporters being so close — and we were talking about that physical closeness, proximity earlier — was really useful to him, and he would hold and still does, um, long press conferences or gaggles, as we call them in small places.” “When you see him standing in that door and it’s kind of noisy, that’s the back cab, the press cabin, of Air Force One!” Hunt exclaimed. “That’s exactly right,” Mason said. “He got used to it. And then… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Trump Asks Americans to Vote on Name Replacement for AI in Puzzling Poll: ‘Ver...
President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) President Donald Trump wants people to help him pick a new name to replace “artificial intelligence,” which he slammed as “inaccurate” and “very ineloquent.” In a Truth Social post on Saturday, the president laid out three alternative names to replace AI: Super Intelligence, Extreme Intelligence, and Supreme Intelligence. “Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence. A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI). This is a Poll, and I would appreciate everybody voting! Which is the best name for this ever growing ‘Revolution?'” Trump wrote. The term “artificial intelligence” originated in 1955 and was introduced by Stanford professor John McCarthy. He described it as “the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.” It is not clear how Trump’s proposed name changes would be applied to a whole industry. Trump regularly uses AI for posts he makes on Truth Social. Trump’s question on how exactly to refer to AI comes amid growing concerns inside and outside of the industry. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned in a lengthy statement last week that companies must slow down the pace of AI and there needs to be more oversight, or rogue AI agents could “take over” the entire internet within 12 months. Tech leaders like Elon Musk and Sam Altman backed Amodei’s call for a pace slowdown. The CEO’s warning followed an Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon going viral for resigning and laying out his fears about the industry in public statements. Coxon believes the technology is advancing so rapidly that it could “kill us all” within 10 years. Trump has dismissed these concerns, repeatedly declaring that the U.S. must beat countries like China on the AI front. He’s called doomsday fears about the technology a “hoax.” The president made a similar statement on Saturday, following up his poll question with a rant on AI being the next “revolution.” He wrote: 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, Men in Women’s Sports, Transgender… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It ...
As the AI industry likes to tell it, superintelligent bots could one day cure cancer and end poverty. Or in the worst-case scenario, they might wipe out all humans from the face of the Earth. In recent weeks, Silicon Valley’s existential concerns about the technology it is racing to build have blown up. The tech journalist Kara Swisher sees it differently. “We have to stop thinking AI is going to kill humanity,” she told Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance at The Atlantic Festival. If the AI future goes sideways, bots won’t be to blame. People will be. “These are people at the helm of these things.”In the several decades that Swisher has covered Silicon Valley—formerly as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, now as the host of two podcasts—she says that she’s seen tech whizzes make the same mistakes again and again: failing to take proper precautions against the products they are building. “One of the things about tech people is they’re the smartest people in the world, in case you need to know, because they like to tell you,” she said. In her interview with LaFrance, Swisher also discussed the economic implications of the AI race, who is likely to win, and how Americans can respond to this dizzying and worrying AI moment.This interview has been edited for length and clarity.Adrienne LaFrance: You have been paying attention to the tech world and AI for basically ever. And now it seems like within the past, say, two weeks, the rest of the world is suddenly paying much closer attention. So I wanted to start just by talking about where you think we are, in this moment.Kara Swisher: I think the penny has dropped with a lot of people. Years ago I wrote Burn Book, which was tough on the tech industry. And at the time, they were sort of in an ascendant period, not as well liked as they started off. Someone came up to me and said, This book is really mean, as if I’m their friend or something. And recently that same person came up to me and they said, It wasn’t mean enough, which was kind of interesting. And I thought, Well, don’t worry; I’m coming up with a new one. It’s going to be great. The new book opens up with them standing with Donald Trump at the inaugural in front of the Cabinet.LaFrance: By… [TheTopNews] Read More.1 day ago - 4 Strategies to Battle ‘Techflation’
With phone and computer prices soaring, it helps to know the true cost of owning electronics so you can bring those numbers down. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Google’s Gemini AI hacked three companies in security test
The AI model accessed the internet and guessed credentials to three websites, a Google official told the BBC. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago - Tech NowAdrienne Murray follows NASA scientists in Iceland researching a rare total solar eclipse. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 days ago
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