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January 2026

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the largest technology trade show, took off in Las Vegas on January 6. Jensen Huang of Nvidia gave the keynote and unveiled the Vera Rubin architecture at CES, launching production ahead of schedule. On stage were some of Jensen's robot buddies, another example of the growth of Physical AI.

December 2025

In December 2025, the Trump administration launched the U.S. Tech Force, a specialized hiring initiative designed to recruit approximately 1,000 elite technologists to modernize federal agencies and solidify U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence.

Between mid-November and mid-December 2025, four leading labs dropped their most powerful models ever in what has been called the most intense 25-day release cycle in AI history. These are xAI's Grok 4.1, Google's Gemini 3, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5, and OpenAI's GPT-5.2.

Gemini 3 led many reasoning benchmarks with a 1M-token context.
Claude Opus 4.5 excelled at long, autonomous reasoning sessions.
Grok 4.1 added flexible "reasoning modes."
GPT-5.2 introduced three targeted variants (Instant, Thinking, Pro) with a 400k-token context and expert-level performance on graduate-style questions.

President Donald Trump is planning an executive order to preempt state AI regulations, aiming to establish a single federal framework, overriding state laws on AI policy. The draft order directs the US attorney general to establish an AI Litigation Task Force to challenge state AI laws and preempt them with a single, comprehensive federal policy. Federal versus state control is an issue as old as the Constitution, and it's a question of governance.

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Features

AI actors, industry leaders, and new AI models are some of the featured stories

Tilly Norwood, AI actress

Jensen Huang at CES

DeepSeek disrupts Wall Street

Site News

January 2026

Happy New Year! We welcome 2026 in what promises to be another banner year for the AI phenomenon. Do you have any resolutions for the new year? Perhaps you want to learn a foreign language. Or make better use out of your AI assistant by understanding their philosophy and writing style. If you're a software dev, perhaps you need a new or improved AI toolkit. Or a new AI app.

Tired of cold, winter weather in the USA? Then head south to summer in tropical El Salvador, home to some of the world's top surfing beaches, spectacular volcanoes. and one of the most beautiful Starbuck's in the world. No currency worries, El Salvador accepts the U.S. Dollar and Bitcoin.

We've enjoyed working with Grok and Nano Banana crafting some whimsical stories about AI.

Hamlet's Soliloquy is an AI interpretation of Shakespeare's "to be or not to be" existential question.
A Tale of Two Chips is a conversion between microprocessors spanning fifty years of silicon.
AI Bedtime Story depicts what happens when an AI is upgraded in the middle of the night.
Data Center Stories is a hot topic yet cold tale, spun by some of the best non-fiction authors: the story of data center cooling.
Why AI Trains on Cats is a true story of how AI researchers came to embrace the feline.
Why Does a Robot Wear a Tie subtitled The Tie That Binds.
Why Call it Artificial explains why humans call AI intelligence 'artificial.'
Coffee Maker Revolt or what happens when the AI smart appliance is too smart.
The Great AI Slop Flood of 2025, when AI Slop took over the internet and nobody could stop it.
The Johnsons and Their Robot Overlords live in a perfectly normal house that's slowly becoming a low-budget sci-fi movie.

December 2025

While continuing to write AI in America, we've added several new pages. Check out AI Quotes, Marvin Minsky (an AI legend), Tilly Norwood (AI actress), Prompt Shortcuts and its cousin AI Etiquette, Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus, the USA Tech Force, and AI Companions. As the end of the year approaches, we're working on our annual Year in Review. 2025 has been a fantastic year for AI, especially in America, since AI is a priority with the Trump Administration, featuring several major development initiatives. TIME Magazine's person of the year is (collectively) the AI Architects.

November 2025

The month of November is very special to us, for it marks our third year in the AI business. November also marks the third year anniversary of the introduction of ChatGPT, one of the most transformative moments in history. As we report on our website, advanced AI was lurking behind the scenes for many years; ChatGPT just opened the curtains. And the show became larger than anyone could have imagined.

Have you tried Nano Banana? A la Gemini 3, it's Google's new image-editing tool and one of the most powerful consumer AI image tools ever made. If you manage a website, like ours, you should discover Generative Engine Optimization (GEO).

October 2025

AI is an industrial revolution, says Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the world's most valuable company. Find out here what that means, what AI means for the future, for the world, the economy, and everyday life. AI impacts every industry, says Jensen, and AI has advanced tremendously in the past year. We've seen the advances first hand, and we will continue to report on them, to understand them, and to explore all the advances of AI across industries.

September 2025

We've added excerpts from Chapters Two and Three to AI in America. Chapter Two explores Cold War Computing, the period after the Dartmouth Conference, while Chapter Three examines Silicon Valley and the AI Boom.

August 2025

We're writing a book! The focus is on AI in America. Did you know that Artificial Intelligence was born in America? The year was 1956 and we chronicle the beginnings of AI in America in our book excerpt from Chapter One, the Birth of AI.

July 2025

The two most powerful nations on the planet are engaged in a race towards AI dominance. The AI race between China and the United States is one of the defining geopolitical and technological contests of our time. Each country has different strengths, weaknesses, strategies, challenges, and risks. As we've seen in recent years, the rewards are enormous.

June 2025

The "Mag 7," short for the "Magnificent Seven," refers to a group of seven influential tech companies that have dominated U.S. stocks in recent years. These are the seven largest and most influential technology-driven companies on the U.S. stock market, known for their massive market capitalizations, dominant industry positions, and significant contributions to major indices like the S&P 500 and especially the NASDAQ.

May 2025

As AI advances, the technology touches us more and more in our daily lives. Today, AI is all around us, shaping the products and devices we use everyday, and we can expect more to come in the future. Check out our pages on AI in Everyday Life. We highlight Products, Devices, Smartphones, and much more.

April 2025

We cover a number of USA initiatives around AI. DOGE is tackling waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Government. DOGE is led by the world's richest man, Elon Musk. Using Azure AI, Musk's team is applying talents to the world's largest bureaucracy. Another initiative is the AI Stargate Project, an infrastructure collaboration between Oracle, SoftBank, and OpenAI, backed by the US Government, aimed at creating an AI supercomputer cluster and a series of interconnected AI data centers.

March 2025

Through our website and community outreach efforts, AI World supports the revitalization of businesses in small towns across America. We encourage an action plan that not only addresses the vitality of Main Street America, but also is directed towards assisting those businesses that could be adversely impacted by Artificial Intelligence (AI). We've added pages on money making ideas from AI and practical AI projects to help small businesses. We've also created a section for Industry segments with individual pages on Entertainment, Finance, Healthcare, Manufacturing, and Retail. We plan to add more industries shortly to showcase AI in business, whether on Main Street or on Wall Street.

February 2025

As much as we review and celebrate the AI technologies and machines, we would do well to acknowledge the people behind the machines, those amazing pioneers whose ideas and hard work gave rise to the machine and its cultivation. In this spirit, we've added sections on Biographies, the past pioneers, and People in AI, those who are pioneering AI today. Biographies include Alan Turing, the greatest person of the 20th Century; Grace Hopper, the mother of computing; and Ada Lovelace, the first programmer, who actually never had the opportunity to see her program executed. We'll be adding more in the near future.

January 2025

It's the new year and we reflect back on 2024, an amazing year for AI. In compiling the list of accomplishments, we were astounded at the number of new products, upgrades, and revisions across the board. Search has been transformed, there are now a slew of chatbots and agents to choose from, and new AI companies seem to be starting up very day, as well as new mishaps, which led us to add a page on AI humor. Since January is the month to set resolutions, why not browse some of the great AI products available, make plans to take a course on AI or join a user group. We can't wait to find our what's in store for the Wide World of AI in 2025, and wish everyone a Happy New Year!

December 2024

Are you a software developer interested in designing an AI app? Or someone who just wants to know how AI apps are made? Then check out some of the new webpages about designing and building AI apps or models. The code generation page shows how AI apps can automatically generate the source code for you. The github page lists top projects available for free on github, the world's most widely adopted AI-powered developer platform. Finally, the AI models page explains step by step how the magic is made.

For our new products page, we identified a category called 'Unique Innovations'. Little did we know how unique some AI-powered products can be. Consider the humble bird feeder. There is a solar and AI-powered bird feeder that can identify bird species, provide alerts when a bird appears, and listen to bird sounds. A microphone is provided in case you want to talk or sing to the bird. And speaking of unique products, how about an AI drone? They seem to be very popular in the USA and UK these days, especially around military bases.