The Download: AI’s popularity paradox and EmTech Future 2026

Summary

Trump has unveiled a "Super Intelligence Force" to oversee AI, a group that will coordinate US AI policy and industry engagement, according to NBC News. Trump named national intelligence chief Jay Clayton as its leader. The newsletter also reports that an appeals court ruled an AI deepfake of a murder victim forgiving his killer should never have been aired in court, since it presented imagined thoughts as fact.

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