On Tuesday 21 January, US President Donald Trump announced the launch of a massive artificial intelligence (AI) initiative called Stargate.
This $500 billion project will “build the physical and virtual infrastructure to support the next generation of AI” and will create “more than 100,000 jobs” in the United States, according to Mr Trump.
Several new technology giants will be at the helm of this project: Cloud specialist Oracle, Japanese investment giant SoftBank and generative...