President Trump has announced a multi-billion dollar programme for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Also: arrests for Turkish fire which killed at least 76 people, and the new robotic glove teaching piano playing.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and in the early hours of Wednesday 22nd January, these are our main stories. President Trump has announced a multi-billion dollar investment programme for artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said those responsible for a fire at a ski resort hotel, which killed at least 76 people, will be held to account. The Formula One motor racing team, Haas, has appointed the first female race engineer in the 75-year history of the sport.
Also in this podcast. All day long, it's like a death by a thousand cuts. No wonder you're stressed out. There's a different way to handle that situation.
A lesson in letting go. Donald Trump has made plenty of headlines with his executive orders in the first 24 hours in the White House, from pulling out of climate change agreements to pardoning the January the 6th rioters. Here's another eye-catching one. Shortly before we recorded this podcast, he announced a $500 billion investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
The money will come from three big tech companies – In advance of the announcement, our correspondent in Washington, Ione Wells, told us more about the programme.
It will be an announcement about three major business leaders, the SoftBank Group CEO, also Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who run ChatGPT, and also of Oracle Corp, three huge AI companies, essentially to announce the creation of a new company called Stargate, which we're told would invest up to $500 billion over the next four years in AI infrastructure.
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