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La Bte (The Beast), a film by Bertrand Bonello, provides an unsettling glimpse of a world taken over by artificial intelligence where emotions have been ripped away from the human psyche. It was in these visuals that MPC Paris had crafted a huge contribution to bringing the haunting story into being.MPC Paris worked intensively on VFX and post-production for the film. Stunning water FX effects have been integrated that fit the mood and emotions in the story with intricate datamosh sequences created to give some dynamic, mind-bending transitions. Their sets were completed and improved to elevate visual storytelling to fit Bonellos compelling vision.A visual experience thats both striking and immersive, putting the viewer in the midst of the dystopian futures unsettling beauty and tension. La Bte not only challenges our perception of humanity but also showcases the artistry and innovation of MPC Paris in crafting cinematic worlds.The post La Bte (The Beast) VFX Breakdown by MPC Paris appeared first on Vfxexpress.

The Academy has spoken! Nominations for the 97th Oscars are out, and the fight is on in the Best Visual Effects, Best Animated Feature Film, and Best Animated Short Film categories. Each of the nominees presents extraordinary creativity and technical brilliance, and the ceremony promises to be unforgettable.Best Visual Effects Nominees:Alien: RomulusBetter ManDune: Part TwoKingdom of the Planet of the ApesWickedBest Animated Feature Film Nominees:FlowInside Out 2Memoir of a snailWallace & Gromit: Vengeance most fowlThe Wild RobotBest Animated Short Film Nominees:Beautiful MenIn the Shadow of the CypressMagic CandiesWander to WonderYuck!The Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood will be the venue for the 97th Oscars on Sunday, March 2, 2025. It is scheduled to be telecast live on ABC, streamed live on Hulu, and broadcast in more than 200 territories across the globe. Given the degree of talent that will be competing, this years Oscars promise to be a thrilling celebration of cinematic artistry.The post 97th Oscars: Best Visual Effects, Animated Feature, and Short Film Nominations appeared first on Vfxexpress.

Ever wimp out? Leave a situation wishing youd done or said something different? We all have. If you feel like you lack courage, its not due to a personal fault. Protecting your physical and emotional personal well-being is an innate drive that can override your goals.Humans are wired for safety, for certainty, for shoring up the status quo, and not for risking it, says Dr. Margie Warrell, author of The Courage Gap: 5 Steps to Braver Action. Our instinct for self-preservation in the short term has always been strong.Our environment has changed since the caveman days when physical threats were frequent and real. What feeds our fears today is the digitalization of the world with a never-ending news cycle at our fingertips. The pandemic also kept people isolated from other perspectives, creating an unwillingness to be open to other points of view.Anxiety is higher than its ever been, says Warrell. We are being bombarded consistently with reasons that make us feel anxious. The algorithms are wired to fuel a sense of insecurity. When people feel less secure, it impacts who they vote for and what they buy. The digital landscape that were in is a digital fear economy.Conquering fear takes courage, which Warrell says has two core dimensions. The first is the regulation and management of fear. And the second is the willingness to act in the presence of fear and risk. To let go of your inner wimp and step into courage, Warrell recommends taking five steps:1. Focus on what you fearOften, our attention focuses on what we dont want or what were afraid will happen. Instead, we need to identify the highest intention for our current situation and for the long term.Focusing on what we want requires not letting our fear govern our decisions, says Warrell. Unless were clear about what we want, fear will govern our decisions, because thats the default wiring.2. RescriptHumans are wired for narrative. We tell ourselves stories about the world, our situation, and our beliefs, says Warrell.We create operating systems for the actions that we take, and were often living within belief systems that are limiting, she says. Theyre fueling doubt and anxiety, and theyre short-changing our future.Instead, step back and look at what are the vital lies you tell yourself that give you an excuse not to take action and to keep playing it too safe. What has kept you scared, stuck, or too safe?3. Breathe into courageThe next step is to connect to the courage that exists within you as well as in our relationships and social networks.A lot of people walk around from the neck up, says Warrell. They intellectualize things, but they cant feel things fully. So, this is about transforming the physiology of fear into the psychology of courage. Its learning to regulate fear in our nervous system, embodying courage in how we walk and talk and show up.The quickest way to regulate fear is through breathwork. Five mindful breaths can reset your nervous systems, allowing you to respond with greater calm.Warrell also recommends connecting to your external environment and people who embolden you to be braver. We know that fear is a contagious emotion, she says. Often people are in an environment where people around them are just continually stoking their fear and cycling away courage. Fear is contagious and so is bravery.4. Step into discomfortYou cant grow until youre willing to embrace being uncomfortable. We have to reset our relationship with discomfort and when we do, we turn fear into a catalyst for action, says Warrell.Practice the one brave minute maxim, she says. Give yourself permission to feel really uncomfortable for a minute. When we do, we strengthen our neural pathway. We strengthen and expand our capacity to take action amid our fear, and that makes it easier for the future.Courage is like a muscle that grows stronger with use. It also grows weaker when we dont use it. People that are constantly living in their comfort zone, actually lose confidence over time, says Warrell. If you meet someone whos continually been doing things that are a little bit scary, and continually been stretching themselves, theyre going to be far more confident.5. Rise when you fallFinally, mine through the nuggets of gold that failures hold for us so we can move forward smarter, says Warrell. We can never control the output of our actions, she says. If youre trying something new, theres no guarantee that youre going to get the result you want.But when you are willing to look at what went wrong and learn the lessons, youre able to move forward and take smarter actions that are going to elevate the outcomes that you get.Unless youre willing to look at failure and never let it go to waste, then you could end up just continually repeating the same mistakes again and again, says Warrell.Why courage is so importantAs humans, we thrive when were growing. Growth requires that you step into your courage gap, taking action even though youre afraid or feeling vulnerable.We humans are pretty good at putting ourselves in the shoes of an hour from now and a day from now, if we do something brave, says Warrell. What were lousy at is putting ourselves in the shoes of us five or 10 years from now and accurately assessing the hidden price that I have paid because I let fear of what could go wrong determine the actions that I take. Thats because our brains are twice as sensitive to what could go wrong versus what could go right.Without taking intelligent risks, you put yourself at risk of regret. People regret far more the risks that they didnt take than the risks that they did take, says Warrell. Even when they took a risk and it didnt pay off, they still learned something. They grew. They realized they were more resilient. . . . The difference between the life were living and the unlived life that we have within us, is closing the courage gap.

When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7quickly spreading to more than 200 acres in 20 minutes, and nearly 3,000 acres by the end of the daysome critics argued that land management was to blame.Rick Caruso, a billionaire real estate developer who lost the L.A. mayoral race in 2022, claimed that a root cause of the fires was failing to remove brush from the hills. Elon Musk blamed crazy environmental regulations that he said prevented creating firebreaks and clearing brush. Donald Trumpwho had said in the past that California needed to rake its forestscomplained again about the states forest management. And when Congress reintroduced a Fix Our Forests bill this week that would make it easier for the logging industry to cut down trees, some politicians implied that the fires in L.A. could have been prevented if it had been in place; on Thursday, that bill passed in the House.The problem: The landscape around Los Angeles isnt a forest, and clearing out the native plants could make fires even worse.Altadena, California, January 2025 [Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images]It drives me crazy when you hear people talk about how we need to manage the forests around L.A., says Richard Halsey, director of the nonprofit California Chaparral Institute and the author of Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California. There arent any.Unlike mountains in parts of Northern California that are filled with pine and cedar trees, the hills around L.A. are covered in chaparral, an ecosystem made up of small drought-tolerant shrubs like manzanita. In some Northern California forests, prescribed burns can help prevent extreme fires by clearing out undergrowth on the forest floor. (Decades of fire suppression in these forests have helped make fires bigger and more destructive.)But chaparral doesnt naturally burn as often, and deliberately burning it can kill it off. The result of that is you lose all the native shrubs and they are eventually replaced by more flammable, non-native grasses which then present a greater fire risk on the landscape than the chaparral ever does, Halsey says.Firefighters battle flames from the Smokehouse Creek Fire in March 2024 near Sanford, Texas. [Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images]Grass fires can be incredibly destructive. When the Marshall Fire burned in Colorado in 2021, destroying hundreds of buildings, killing two people, and forcing tens of thousands of residents to evacuate, it spread through grass, not trees or shrubs. In Texas last year, the record-breaking Smokehouse Creek Fire burned through more than a million acres of ranchland, not forests. Strong winds and hot weather made the fire spread quickly.In Southern California, the extreme weather conditions, with hurricane-force winds, meant that the fires almost certainly would have spread even if there were large fire breaks in place with no vegetation. You could have put a 10-lane freeway in front of that fire and it would not have slowed it down one bit, Brian Fennessy, the fire chief in Orange County, told the Los Angeles Times.High winds send embers flying off a burning palm tree during the Eaton Fire in Altadena, California. [Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images]The L.A. fires spread as embers flew miles through the air, not just through vegetation on the ground. And as houses ignited, they became the main fuel, not trees or shrubs. If clearing vegetation in wild areas isnt helpful, Halsey argues that cities should be focused on making homes more resilient to fires. That includes creating defensible space around a house, adding features like fire-resistant windows and decks, and making sure that sparks cant enter a house through vents. Halsey also advocates for exterior sprinklers for buildings that are more commonly used in places like Australia and Canada. (In a fire in Minnesota in 2007, nearly 200 houses that had sprinkler systems survived, while neighboring houses burned.)We keep going to vegetation, and weve been doing this for 100 years, he says. We keep losing more people and more homes. Youd think somebody in the room would say, You know, maybe we should be doing something differently.

In this exclusive video,Dezeen deputy editor Cajsa Carlson explores the history of five of the most iconic mid-century modern chair designs.This video focuses on the most iconic chairs of the mid-century-modern movement, including the Eames Shell Chair, Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair and Verner Panton's Panton Chair.The Eames aimed to make good design affordable. Photo courtesy of the Eames Office.Designed by Ray and Charles Eames in 1949, theShell Chair was derived from a prototype created as an entry for the Low-Cost Furniture Design competition organised by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.The Eames were committed to making design more accessible, and the chairs fibreglass seat meant it could be mass-produced at a relatively low cost."The Shell Chair was revolutionary for its use of fibreglass, which had never been used in furniture before, as well as its customisable design each shell could be interchanged with different bases," explained Carlson.The chair is still in production today by brands Herman Miller and Vitra, with a new recycled plastic version released in 2024.Arne Jacobsen is remembered as a pioneer of Danish modernism. Photo courtesy of Radisson Collection, Royal Hotel CopenhagenAnother chair that was born out of an experimentation with new materials was Danish designer Jacobsen's Egg Chair.Created for the interiors of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen in 1958, the chair was produced with furniture brand Fritz Hansen.Jacobsen sculpted the Egg Chair out of hard polyurethane foam, as opposed to creating a more traditional wooden or steel frame.Although the interiors of the hotel have now been redesigned, visitors can still find Jacobsen's preserved original design in room 606 of the hotel.Hans J Wegner designed over 500 chairs for Carl Hansen & Son. Photo courtesy of Carl Hansen & SonAnother iconic chair designed by a Dane was theY-backed Wishbone chair by Hans J Wegner, which was created in 1949 for Carl Hansen & Son.Also known as the CH24, the chair has become one of the best known icons of Scandinavian design."The chair shaped our ideas around Scandinavian design for years, with its minimalist form and use of natural materials like beech and paper cord," explained Carlson.Read: Dezeen's guide to mid-century modern design from A to ZThe chair came into production as Denmark was gaining international recognition as a design powerhouse, but Wegner initially looking outside of Denmark for his inspiration, taking notes from the high-backed thrones used by Chinese Ming dynasty emperors.The creation of the chair's seemingly simple form involved over 100 different steps, including creating a hand-woven seat made from around 120 meters of paper cord.Harry Bertoia used his experience as a sculptor when creating his Diamond Chair. Image courtesy of Knoll ArchivesWhereas Wegner's Wishbone looked to natural materials, Italian-American designer Harry Bertoia looked to the cutting edge of technology for his wired Diamond Chair.Released in 1952, the chair's has a frame constructed from welded steel rods, an unusual choice at a time when furniture was predominantly manufactured from wood.Bertoia chose steel for its strength and malleability, which enabled it to be bent into shape without heat."He wanted users to feel like they were sitting on air, and the Diamond Chair's wire frame is a study in negative space," said Carlson."In the 1950s and 60s, breakthroughs in science and tech were taking place at an unprecedented rate. Looking at Bertoia's chair, you can feel the excitement and possibilities of the Atomic Age."Verner Panton's colourful designs captured the mood of the 1960s. Image courtesy of VitraThe final chair is thePanton chair released in 1967. Panton was known for his experimental and playful designs, a strict departure from the more restrained styles of the 1950s.The Panton Chair was the product of several years of design development and technical experimentation, and is unique for being the first cantilevered chair to be manufactured out of a single piece of plastic.Panton worked to improve upon his design throughout his career, experimenting with materials and techniques such as polyurethane foam and moulding. In the 1990s he created a version using polypropylene with furniture brand Vitra, but passed away shortly before its release.Now regarded as one of the most recognisable chairs in history, Panton's deceivingly simple design continues to inspire today.Mid-century modernThis article is part of Dezeen's mid-century modern design series, which looks at the enduring presence of mid-century modern design, profiles its most iconic architects and designers, and explores how the style is developing in the 21st century.The post The five most impactful chair designs of mid-century modernism appeared first on Dezeen.

Remember when the first smartwatches were ridiculed for needing to be charged almost every night? Although the situation has improved significantly, the fact remains that they still need to be taken off your wrist and put on a charger every now and then. That might sound only like a hassle for smartwatches and wireless earbuds, but imagine the discomfort and risks of having to remove health monitors, not to mention devices like pacemakers whose batteries also need to be replaced regularly.They might be called wearables, but these devices are nothing like their analog counterparts, that dont cause stress. Then again, they dont offer features either, so its not exactly a fair trade. Solving the battery problem will go a long way in making these devices more sustainable and accessible, and this ongoing research is trying to do just that by removing batteries from these devices completely.Designers: Andy Kong, Daehwa Kim, Chris Harrison (Power-Over-Skin)Electrical devices need power to function, of course, and the most straightforward method is to have a battery inside them. Unfortunately, the trade-off is that these devices are thicker and heavier than they could be, and they have to be recharged or have their batteries replaced every so often. If you could power the devices without a battery or without even a cable, that could go a long way in shrinking their sizes down and potentially making them more fashionable.The trick is to hide the actual power source somewhere on your body and then use your body itself as the conduit for electrical power to travel to these wearable devices. This can, for example, be used to make earrings with flashing LEDs or a ring with a joystick that can control your smart TV. These devices need to be touching your skin to actually get power, but considering their use cases, that wont be much of a problem.Although the previous examples do sound contrived and a little ridiculous, the applications for this technology go beyond mobile accessories. Health sensors, like a skin-based thermometer or glucose monitor, can be stuck to any part of your body and work almost infinitely, at least as long as theres a power source attached to you. You can even have a calculator that powers up when you hold it in your hand, or a phone case that charges your phone bit by bit while youre using it.Power-Over-Skin does still require some transmitter to send power to those devices through your skin, so we cant exactly escape the need for batteries just yet. The devices are also quite unappealing, which is as expected of prototypes. Hopefully, there will be further research in improving not only the design of the wearables but also their ability to get power through other means, maybe from the abundant air around us.The post Battery-free wearable accessories could soon be powered through your skin first appeared on Yanko Design.

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MacworldAt a glanceExpert's RatingProsEstimated 10-year lifespan versus 6 to 12 months for an AirTag-compatible lithium coin batteryWaterproof against steam cleaning and high-pressure jets (IP69)Low cost relative to standard rugged waterproof AirTag casesUses standard AA batteriesScrews use standard hex-head style (hex wrench included)ConsLarger form factor compared to AirTagOur Verdict The waterproof case design and use of standard AA batteries lets an AirTage in the TimeCapsule 10-Year Battery Case keep tracking stuff for extended periods.Price When ReviewedThis value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefinedBest Pricing TodayApples AirTag has proved an invaluable tool in tracking down baggage lost or delayed by airlines, misplaced items youve left behind, or stuff stolen from you, whether a bag containing a camera or your car or bike. Its biggest failing? The CR2032 lithium coin battery required to power it lasts about 6 to 12 months. (Appleclaims it can last over a year, but I and many others see a more typical shorter life using brand-name batteries.)Some companies offer Find My network compatible items certified by Apple that have non-replaceable batteries with longer lives, like the 2-year warrantied promise of theChipolo Card Spot(review), after which they offer a discounted replacement. Others, like Pebblebee with itsCard Universal(Apple or Google network support) (review) or KnogsScout Bike Alarm & Finder(review) let you recharge an internal battery via external contacts or a port.Apple AirTagRead our reviewNow, theres something new: not a new Find My device, but a new case that incorporates external batteries. With an estimated 10-year lifespan using two extended-use lithium AA batteries, the Elevation Lab TimeCapsule 10-Year Battery Case may be an inexpensive answer for certain use cases where you want to go huge periods between changing batteries.A clever case adds external batteriesThe AirTag gave rise to a huge number of cases (now numbering in the hundreds) from dozens of companies. But only one has risen to the challenge of long life. Elevation Lab, an early maker of rugged AirTag cases for bikes, pet collars, and other uses, has released the TimeCapsule 10-Year Battery Case. (Yes, its called a TimeCapsule, one word, and has nothing to do with Apples discontinued networked Time Machine/AirPort Base Station product, the Time Capsule.)The TimeCapsule 10-Year Battery Case is shown here disassembled (left, right) and put together (bottom). The AirTag (top) fits securely on top of the CR2032 battery adapter in the case.This case uses a clever internal adapter to power an AirTag with two AA batteries instead of the small coin battery. The case is also highly waterproof, with an IP69 rating versus the AirTags native IP67 rating.The company achieves its life-extending trick by having you remove the plastic backing of an AirTag as if to replace the coin battery. The interior of the TimeCapsule case has a metal raised area the exact dimensions of a CR2032 battery. You place the open side of the AirTag onto it, add two AA batteries, and use the included screwsapparently milled to precision instead of stampedto firmly seal the case.Why might you want an AirTag that lasts ten years between battery changes? Apple prompts you in the Find My app and through notifications as the battery life of an AirTag or other item starts to get low. If you ignore these notifications long enough, they disappear when the battery dies. Elevation Labs founder said in announcing the product that he was inspired by just this when he discovered hed failed to replace the battery in an AirTag inside a camera bag after it was stolen, and the last location was tracked three months previously.You might also want to place an AirTag in a location thats difficult to reach or requires disassembly to get to, and youd ordinarily avoid with the knowledge you would need to get to it every several months to replace the battery. That could be useful if you want to put an AirTag somewhere that a thief couldnt remove it without substantial effort, taking minutes or even hours, but where the AirTags Bluetooth signal will still penetrate to reach nearby devices. An AirTag will keep broadcasting unless its battery is removed orits removed from the paired users account. If the AirTag (or third-party item) is not within Bluetooth range when removed from an account, it has to be reset by hand in addition to the account removal.Pick a battery that is rated for long usage.Pick the right AA batteryOn the battery front, dont use standard alkaline batteries, which the company warns against. Alkalines wont last long enough and can degrade in the voltage they produce or even leak battery chemicals. You may have seem this leakage before when youve spotted a white crust on the terminals inside a device that hasnt had its batteries changed for a while.ElevationLab recommends the Energizer Ultimate Lithium battery, which is highly rated in independent testing, such asthis exhaustive examination at Cinema Sound. Theyre about $2 to $4 each depending on the quantity purchased in a package. The Energizer batteries shouldnt need replacement under conditions measured by ElevationLab for as long as ten years. (Theres no way for us to review that particular aspect, so check back on this review in the year 2035.)You could use rechargeable lithium batteries, such as those fromPale Blue Earth, but they cost two to five times as much each, last for hundreds of recharges, and are better suited for heavy continuous power usage, like with a battery-powered doorbell cameraAssembling and deploying a caseYou receive a TimeCapsule in disassembled form with a set of four hex screws and a small hex wrench. You can also use a standard H2.5 (2.5mm) hex bit or screwdriver in a standard tool set. Assembly takes a minute or less. Once screwed shut, the case has an IP69 rating. The IP67 rating of the AirTag makes it resistant to 30 minutes of submersion at a depth of a meter (3.3 ft). IP69 allows for prolonged immersion at up to a meter plus provides protection against jet sprays.The assembled TimeCapsule 10-Year Battery Case provides a high level of waterproofing.The case is large compared to an AirTag due to housing two AA batteries and requisite circuitry. It measures 4.45 by 1.57 by 0.75 inches (11.3 by 4 by 1.9 cm). Make sure the place you want to use it can accommodate the bulk. The product doesnt come with a mounting bracket, screw holes for mounting, or an adhesive. Youll have to figure that out for locations where it cant float, as in a bag.The only downside I can see of this ten-year battery case is that Apple may improve its AirTag enough in the meantime that youll want to swap in a fresher one with newer features, or a third party will develop a longer-live, rechargeable battery with a bigger form factor. Apple could also change the size and shape of an AirTag, requiring a case redesign to use newer ones.However, you have years to think about that while your TimeCapsule-encased AirTag keeps on pinging.Check out Macworlds guide to the best AirTag key rings, luggage tags, wallets & accessories.

President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive order to make the US a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI), revoking regulatory measures enacted by the Biden administration.The executive order, signed Thursday, tasks federal agencies with drafting an AI action plan within 180 days to strengthen US competitiveness and safeguard national security.Trumps directive focuses on fostering innovation by eliminating what he called harmful government overreach that hampered AI development under the previous administration.This Executive Order establishes the commitment of the United States to sustain and enhance Americas dominance in AI to promote human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security, Trump said in the order.Repealing Biden-era AI restrictionsThe new order reverses a 2023 executive order by then-President Joe Biden that imposed stringent regulations on AI developers. Bidens policy required companies to conduct safety testing and share results with the federal government before releasing AI systems with potential risks to national security, public health, or the economy.The Biden AI Executive Order established unnecessarily burdensome requirements for companies developing and deploying AI that would stifle private sector innovation and threaten American technological leadership, the executive order stated.Critics argued the measures stifled innovation and burdened developers with excessive compliance requirements. Trumps order directs federal agencies to rescind or revise all policies tied to the Biden-era rules.Trumps executive order has the potential to accelerate the development and deployment of AI models by easing compliance burdens on developers, said Mansi Gupta, senior analyst at Everest Group. However, this shift introduces significant risks for sensitive industries like healthcare, where responsible AI considerations are crucial.Earlier this week, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order issued by Joe Biden that imposed stricter oversight on artificial intelligence (AI) development.AI action plan and streamlined oversightThe executive order calls for the creation of a comprehensive AI Action Plan to guide the US toward sustained global leadership. The plan will be led by top federal science and national security officials and will include efforts to streamline AI oversight, prioritize ethical development, and ensure models remain free from ideological bias.The order directs the development of an AI Action Plan to sustain and enhance Americas AI dominance, led by the Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, the White House AI & Crypto Czar, and the National Security Advisor, the order read.It also requires the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue revised guidelines for federal AI governance to promote agility in private-sector collaboration in order to ensure that harmful barriers to Americas AI leadership are eliminated.Earlier this week, President Trump unveiled a private sector investment plan of up to $500 billion to bolster artificial intelligence infrastructure, aiming to position the US ahead of global competitors in this critical technology sector.Implications for enterprisesTrumps pro-AI stance signals reduced regulatory friction for US enterprises. Industry leaders anticipate increased investments in AI research and development, particularly in sectors such as defense, healthcare, and autonomous technologies.However, the deregulation has sparked concerns over potential ethical lapses and security risks. Without robust oversight, critics warn that biases and malicious uses of AI could proliferate.The responsibility for ensuring ethical and accurate AI now shifts from developers to enterprises, which must navigate the challenge of balancing rapid innovation with rigorous risk mitigation measures, Gupta noted.Building on a legacy of AI leadershipThe order builds on Trumps 2019 executive order, the first US policy framework on AI, which doubled research funding and established national AI research institutes. Trump also issued federal guidance on AI adoption, making the US an early player in shaping global AI governance.This new directive reaffirms Americas commitment to innovation, free speech, and economic growth, the White House said.With the new AI policy, the Trump administration aims to recalibrate the balance between fostering innovation and ensuring responsible development. Enterprises are likely to welcome reduced compliance hurdles, but the long-term success of the initiative will depend on industry players ability to uphold ethical practices amid the drive for dominance. As the countdown begins for the AI Action Plan, the executive order positions the US at a crossroads where innovation and governance must align to maintain leadership in the AI race.