US releases a new AI plan intended to promote US leadership. This step anticipates the Sovereign AI concept I have written on here. —— Source The Rundown AI The Rundown: The Trump administration justreleased an AI Action Plan detailing 90+ policy actions to accelerate the country’s dominance in the sector, including details on AI infrastructure, regulation, and export policy shaped by 10K+ public comments. The details: The 28-page plan focuses on three pillars: accelerating innovation, infrastructure, and strengthening diplomacy while removing red tape. Outlined actions include building new data centers, repealing legal barriers to AI growth, encouraging open-source AI, and incentivizing the … Continue reading US AI strategy – the AI boom an “industrial revolution”

© 2025 The Rundown AI, Inc The Rundown: Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan and several researchers in a $2.4B licensing deal, coming in the wake of the coding startup’s $3B acquisition deal with OpenAI collapsing over complications in its partnership with Microsoft. The details: Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen will join Google to work on agentic coding for Gemini, with Windsurf remaining independent under an interim CEO. The OpenAI agreement reportedly fell through over Windsurf’s concerns around Microsoft’s access to its tech through existing partnership agreements. The $3B deal had an exclusivity deadline that expired after Microsoft refused to give OAI … Continue reading Google is hiring Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan

To drive discussion and debate on this critical issue, in 2022, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) and the Global Risk Institute (GRI) hosted the first Financial Industry Forum on Artificial Intelligence (FIFAI I) to promote the responsible use of AI in Canada’s financial sector. This initiative brought together AI experts from the financial industry, as well as policymakers, regulators, academics, and research institutes. The resulting report, “A Canadian Perspective on Responsible AI,”highlighted the need for financial institutions to adopt comprehensive risk management strategies to address the unique challenges posed by AI. It identified the four EDGE principles … Continue reading OSFI: Financial Industry Forum on Artificial Intelligence II: A Collaborative Approach to AI Threats, Opportunities, and Best Practices, Workshop 1