Donald Trump has unveiled a major plan involving artificial intelligence that is worth up to $500 billion.
The newly inaugurated US president has revealed some of the plans he has for his next four years in office.
And one particularly lucrative project centers around AI.

President Trump has revealed new AI plans (CHIP SOMODEVILLA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
It will involve OpenAI partnering up with the likes of Oracle and Softbank to build data centers that are able to power AI.
Trump has said that the project is a ‘resounding declaration of confidence in America’s potential’.
Sam Altman, who is the CEO of OpenAI, said: “I think this will be the most important project of this era.
“We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr President.”
According to Trump, the building of these data centers will create over 100,000 jobs, with some of them already under construction in Texas.
The plan, which has become known as Stargate, was first reported by tech site The Information in March 2024 during the Biden administration.
In statements made by OpenAI and Softbank, it was revealed that the likes of Microsoft and NVIDIA are also partners in the project.
OpenAI kick-started an AI race amongst other tech giants after it launched ChatGPT in 2022.
The chatbot answers users’ questions and, after its launch, the industry saw a spike in investments in AI.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pictured here at a press conference with President Trump after announcing an investment in AI (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Before leaving the White House, Biden had put rules in place to restrict the exports of AI chips, arguing that it would help the US to control the industry.
And it looks like this project is going to see some serious investments – in fact, the companies behind Stargate have said they plan to invest $500 billion in the next four years.
Microsoft has also said that it intends to invest $80 billion.
While not involved in Stargate, Amazon has been funnelling money into two other projects centered around AI, investing around $20 billion in the last couple of months.
In a report by McKinsey last year, it said that there is a growing demand for ‘data centers equipped to host advanced-AI workloads. And the nature of those workloads is rapidly transforming where and how data centers are being designed and operated’.
It also estimated that this demand is likely to more than triple by 2030.
According to the consultancy, this means that over twice the capacity will need to be built in the next five years than has been built since 2000.

Imagine letting a bot do all your job hunting while you sleep peacefully, knowing you’re being productive without lifting a finger.
That’s exactly what one man did.
One Reddit user claimed their ‘technological revolution’ completely changed their job search.
The user, who had since deleted their account, revealed how they created an AI bot to revolutionise his job search, whilst he slept in their bed.
And yes it worked, according to him, securing over 50 job interviews.
They revealed the AI did most of the heavy lifting, handling everything from rewriting their CV and cover letter to automatically applying them for jobs they were suitable for.
Crazily enough, the bot was ‘incredibly effective at passing through automated screening systems,’ the creator claimed.
“I created an AI bot that: Analyzes candidate information, examines job descriptions, generates unique CVs and cover letters for each job, answers specific questions that recruiters ask, automatically applies to jobs,” he wrote.
“And all of this while I was sleeping! In just one month, this method helped me secure around 50 interviews. The tailored CVs and cover letters, customized based on each job description, made a significant difference.”
Explaining their thinking, they explained that AI is already transforming hiring processes, with many companies using similar technology to screen applicants.
Obviously, something like this is going to have mixed reactions from others.

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But the user did make it clear that they’re aware of the ethical considerations in this approach to getting a job.
He later clarified that ‘the bot was created for educational and informative purposes only’ and they ‘do not recommend the use of this bot for obvious ethical reasons.’
He continued: “We’ll need to find a delicate balance between the efficiency of artificial intelligence and the richness of human interactions. Only then can we build a future of work that is not just productive, but also fulfilling and meaningful for everyone.”
However, not everyone was onboard with his method of using technology to avoid doing the grunt work. Some went as far as to call the creator a ‘fraud.’
One person warned: “Careful. Companies are starting to add a “no AI” rule for resumes/applications. We already do and I even suspect AI was used, your resume goes straight in the trash.”
Others were more accepting of the times: “Unethical? I don’t know. Companies use AI to read applications/ resumes so it’s pretty much bot talking to bot. If it gets me the job in the 21st century then like the old 20th century saying goes, all’s fair in love and war.”

Robotics company Realbotix has shown off their new top of the line humanoid models that are here to provide customers with dystopian humanoid ‘robot girlfriends’, giving a somewhat eerie look into the future.
Robots are certainly no new revelation as they’ve been depicted for years in films and even made their way into our lives in various forms, but the arguably dystopian dreams of some are beginning to become reality with the rise of complex artificial intelligence and advanced technology.
We’ve had AI-powered robots sell artwork for over $1,000,000, and marvelous videos of Tesla tech stumbling into a human-like manner, but the next steps are closer than we might think.
Futuristic media has always dipped its toes into the notion of robotic romance, but tech company Realbotix might just have made the first steps into bringing this mechanical intimacy into the real world.
Their top of the line model – named Aria – will set you back around $175,000, and features a somewhat ‘realistic’ humanoid that’s certainly feature-packed.
From a mechanical perspective the robot has what Realbotix call ‘Advanced Body Mobility’ which affords a wide range of motion and ‘more humanlike’ physical gestures which all help break down the barriers between Aria and its user.
On top of this, Aria boasts complex eye tracking and object recognition, allowing the robot to recognize and remember its user alongside maintaining eye contact for more intimate conversations. It also has open-source operability with third-party AI applications, allowing you to integrate ChatGPT or any other tech into the companion.
Perhaps most impressively of all though is the near limitless customization and modularity, allowing the user to create their ‘ideal’ companion and also swap out any part, any time they like.
Perhaps the catch that some were waiting to hear though is that Aria – or any of Realbotix’s other robotic models – is not designed for physical intimacy. Despite predictions assuming we’d be there by now, this robot companion is designed to be exclusively emotional, and to provide companionship in spiritual – not physical – means.

Aria won’t be able to provide any physical means of intimacy to its users (YouTube/Realbotix)
According to Realbotix, Aria isn’t just for romantic relationships either, as its construction “makes her suitable for industries requiring personal interaction with humans, such as education, research, healthcare, and entertainment.”
While there’s no doubting that Aria would be able to provide the necessary information to complete whatever task is thrown in its direction, it’s not entirely convincing at the moment that we’re far enough away from the uncanny valley to be truly convincing on the visual side of things.

A tech billionaire who predicted the rise of social media has now said that nine to five work will become ‘extinct’ in the next decade.
And it looks like it could all be down to the advancements of artificial intelligence.
Tech mogul and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman has made the bold claim that our working patterns could soon be a thing of the past.

The tech billionaire believes that AI will change our working patterns (Kimberly White/Getty Images for WIRED)
In a resurfaced interview, Hoffman said: “You may not only work at multiple companies during your career, you may work at multiple industries. Industries are changing, your own path changes… you may not actually do a lot of your work fully as an employee, you may actually be working in the gig economy, or you may have two or three gigs.
“All of these things are the directional changes from what we’ve seen in the workforce for the last few decades.”
And he doesn’t necessarily see the rise of AI as a bad thing.
He went on to say: “It actually does create a lot of opportunity, it does create a lot of productivity, but it also creates a lot of uncertainty and people like stability. So one of our challenges as we figure it out is how do we minimize a little bit of the uncertainty, increase a little bit of the stability, while continuing to have the kind of opportunity, productivity and flexibility.”
Hoffman doesn’t believe that AI will completely overtake human jobs but instead he believes that it will act as a personal assessment, making our work and lives much easier.
He said: “All the way to being a radiologist, or lawyer, or coder, all of those things will have an AI personal assistant for doing it and that will change things; change industries and everything else. The good news is that AI can be part of the solution.”
And while there will be certain jobs that are at risk of becoming automated, Hoffman reckons that AI will be there to help those people looking for work.
He added: “Truck drivers – of which we have a shortage right now – maybe that will eventually all be autonomous vehicles and you say: well what happens to the truck drivers? Well, we create AI assistants that help those people.
“Let’s say, what else is possible for you? How do you learn that job? How do you get that job? How do you do that job? And the thing that we should be wanting as a society is the AI to help everybody in whatever they’re doing.”

Geoffrey Hinton, otherwise known as the ‘Godfather of AI’, has predicted that artificial intelligence will make society ‘worse and worse’ by increasing the wealth gap between the richest and poorest individuals.
Despite major investment in almost every area of technology over the past few years, the concerns and worries expressed by many about AI are clear.
Issues surrounding copyright – and by extension the ‘stealing’ of content by generative artificial intelligence – are definitely at the forefront, but that plays only a part in the wider concerns surrounding job security and the future of society as a whole.
It isn’t a new thing that technology has made certain jobs redundant, as the industrialization and modernization of the wider world has ripped apart large parts of key industries, but many predict that AI could be the final nail in the coffin for many and cause a devastating societal rift.
One of the major voices expressing these concerns is the ‘Godfather of AI’ himself Geoffrey Hinton, who is viewed as a leading figure in the deep learning community and has played a major role in the development of artificial neural networks.
Hinton previously worked for Google on their deep learning AI research team ‘Google Brain’ before resigning in 2023 over what he expresses as the ‘risks’ of artificial intelligence technology.
He has vocalized these concerns in roundtable discussions in which he predicts the vast wealth gap that will soon emerge as a consequence of AI advancements:
“We’re talking about having a huge increase in productivity. So there’s going to be more goods and services for everybody, so everybody ought to be better off, but actually it’s going to be the other way around.
“It’s because we live in a capitalist society, and so what’s going to happen is this huge increase in productivity is going to make much more money for the big companies and the rich, and it’s going to increase the gap between the rich and the people who lose their jobs.”
This is largely due to the fact that those who lose their jobs will forfeit their income, and those in control of the AI – and thus those producing the services and goods – will retain financial power without the cost of labor too.
Hinton then goes on to outline that once that gap is increased, “you get fertile ground for fascism,” as the power is increasingly held by the richest in society leaving the balance incredibly lopsided in turn.
“It’s crazy because we’re doing something that should help everybody,” Hinton expresses, “but if the profits just go to the rich, that’s going to make society worse.”
It’s certainly not hard to see Hinton’s hypothesis in action at the moment as many of the richest individuals and companies are driving their efforts towards AI, and some on social media have theorized how the removal of wealth from the people will lead to an imbalanced society.
“At least in the US, we’re much more likely to have basic services – like vouchers for approved (lower quality) food stores and housing – than UBI [universal basic income] for all the people that lose their jobs. This will create a permanent lower class that’s much harder to escape from.”
This makes the future seem incredibly dystopian but it’s difficult to see many other alternatives with an increasing number of jobs at risk of redundancy thanks to advancements in AI.

Hinton has expressed a wide variety of concerns regarding the future of AI technology (Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)
Hinton’s worries don’t just stop at the wealth imbalance caused by AI too, as he details his worries about where AI will stop following investment from big companies in an interview with hat everybody knows about, but there’s another threat that’s rather different from those, which is if we produce things that are more intelligent than us, how do we know we can keep control?”
This is a conundrum that has circulated the development of robots and AI for years and years, but it’s seeming to be an increasingly relevant proposition that we might have to tackle sooner rather than later.