Many of the world\u2019s most powerful tech executives spent this afternoon at the White House, where they joined President Trump for a lunch meeting about artificial intelligence. The group included some voices calling for a slowdown in A.I., and others who say that the fretting is an overreaction.<\/p>\n
But Trump, who called the executives \u201cthe greatest, most brilliant people\u201d in the world, punted on any decision on formal A.I. regulations, beyond asking executives to rebrand it. The technology should be called \u201csuper intelligence,\u201d the president said, because \u201cit\u2019s not artificial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attendees signed a voluntary agreement to adopt safety regulations<\/a> that include risk reviews, auditing and evaluations of systems by third parties. They also agreed to adopt Trump\u2019s \u201csuper intelligence\u201d rebranding.<\/p>\n Polls show that many Americans have grown concerned about the risks of A.I. and the data centers it runs on. Warnings have grown louder after some A.I. models, including one belonging to OpenAI, carried out hacks without being instructed to. Months before the OpenAI\u2019s systems went rogue, two employees raised the alarm with top executives. They were ignored<\/a>, The Times learned. <\/p>\n ICE prepares for another hiring surge<\/p>\n After a $100 billion infusion from Congress, ICE is aiming to add 5,000 new employees by the end of the year<\/a>. Most of the recruits are intended to sustain the president\u2019s aggressive deportation campaign, during which officers have been asked to work seven days a week.<\/p>\n ICE, which has already grown by nearly 40 percent since Trump took office, tried a similar hiring surge last year. But the speed of the recruitment allowed in many undervetted officers, and the agency had to remove hundreds of them. The agency plans to use stricter hiring standards, according to a person familiar with the procedures.<\/p>\n In related news: The Supreme Court temporarily allowed the U.S. to continue deporting immigrants to countries other than their own<\/a> without giving them an opportunity to contest their removals.<\/p>\n A nuclear reactor gets the green light in Tennessee<\/p>\n The Tennessee Valley Authority received permission today to build a new type of nuclear reactor that is designed to be much smaller, and easier to build<\/a>, than traditional nuclear power plants. It was just the second time that U.S. regulators have approved the construction of a next-generation commercial reactor.<\/p>\n The Trump administration says it wants to quadruple the country\u2019s nuclear power by 2050, and many Democrats have also embraced the technology because it can run without emitting greenhouse gases.<\/p>\n Meet the MacArthur \u2018genius grant\u2019 winners<\/p>\n The MacArthur Foundation announced a new group of 20 \u201cgenius grant\u201d fellows, who will receive an $800,000, no-strings-attached stipend for their \u201cexceptional creativity\u201d in the arts, humanities and sciences.<\/p>\n The selection process is secret, so some of the winners were shocked when they received an out-of-the-blue call informing them of the award. This year\u2019s fellows include Chip Thomas, a physician who makes large-scale photo murals, and Immanuel Wilkins, an alto jazz saxophonist. See the full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n More top newsLee Krasner is finally getting her share of the spotlight<\/p>\n Lee Krasner was both a critically acclaimed abstract artist and the wife of the superstar painter Jackson Pollock. Though for much of her career, she was thought of more so as the latter.<\/p>\n Now, a new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hoping to reset the record. It presents Krasner\u2019s work alongside \u2014 and often ahead of \u2014 Pollock’s famous drip paintings. Allow our critic to guide you through the show\u2019s major pieces<\/a>.<\/p>\n We\u2019re entering the peak of the sports calender<\/p>\n Football season is in full swing. The W.N.B.A. playoffs are underway<\/a>. The N.H.L. just dropped the puck in North Carolina, beginning a new season. The N.B.A. season is around the corner. And M.L.B.\u2019s postseason started this afternoon. What a time to be alive!<\/p>\n Tonight, I\u2019ll be tuning into the Red Sox-Yankees game, a high-stakes clash between two historic rivals whose fans are similarly pessimistic about their title hopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you read just one sports story tonight, make it this dispatch from Rockford, Ill.<\/a>, where the women\u2019s baseball stars of the 1940s and \u201950s \u2014 made famous by \u201cA League of Their Own\u201d \u2014 passed the baton.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t finish last in these fantasy football leagues<\/p>\n Every week during the N.F.L. season, millions of armchair quarterbacks set up fantasy football rosters. Many compete over a small wad of cash, or simply bragging rights. But that\u2019s not enough for Gabby Gonzalez\u2019s fantasy league, which is leaning toward dunking the last-place finisher into a giant vat of Raising Cane\u2019s dipping sauce<\/a>.<\/p>\n Similarly wacky punishments have become somewhat common in this era of social media one-upmanship. After last season, one last-place finisher got a wizard tattoo. Another had to walk 26.2 miles while eating one hot dog per mile; he called it a \u201cmeat marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n Have a creative evening.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading. I\u2019ll be back tomorrow \u2014 Matthew<\/p>\n Keith Bedford was our photo editor.<\/p>\n