AI - Super Intelligence.

"This technology is our future threat," warns Serhiy Beskrestnov, who has just got his hands on a newly intercepted Russian drone.

It was no ordinary drone either, he discovered. Assisted by artificial intelligence, this unmanned aerial vehicle can find and attack targets on its own.

Beskrestnov has examined numerous drones in his role as Ukrainian defence forces consultant.

Unlike other models, it didn't send or receive any signals, so could not be jammed.

Russian and Ukrainian forces have both been testing AI in this war, and in some areas they are already using it, for finding targets, gathering intelligence and de-mining.

And for the Ukrainian army, AI has become indispensable.

"Our military gets more than 50,000 video streams [from the front line] every month which are analysed by artificial intelligence," says Ukraine's deputy defence minister, Yuriy Myronenko.

"This helps us quickly process this massive data, identify targets and place them on a map."

In a move that sent shockwaves through Wall Street, Michael Burry bet heavily against two of the world’s biggest AI firms.

Palantir, the powerful data and AI company with deep ties to US national security bodies, is one of them. The other is the biggest company in the world, Nvidia.

Mr Burry, who was portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 movie The Big Short is well known for spotting market bubbles, and has issued a string of warnings over recent years – some of which haven’t come true.

Nevertheless his latest move is sparking concerns of a bubble in the US stock market created by the AI boom that has seen the value of the ‘Magnificent Seven’ companies in the US skyrocket in recent months.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon launching a new federal effort to supercharge American artificial intelligence research, development and scientific applications.

Unveiling the new “Genesis Mission” to support American efforts on AI, the order charts out a series of steps to expand computational resources, increase access to vast federal datasets and move toward impactful, real-world applications, particularly in scientific fields.