June 04, 2025
In 2024 the 35-square-mile Caribbean island Anguilla earned an estimated $100 million (East Caribbean; about $37 million [U.S.]) by leasing its domain name, .ai, to tech companies around the world.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the use of “computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind,” according to IBM. The idea of AI dates back at least 2,700 years. As Adrienne Mayor, research scholar, folklorist, and science historian at Stanford
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