Today is sci-tech day, but the only topic of much interest has to do with President Donald Trump and artificial intelligence.  In a wide-ranging rant at the UN General Assembly in New York City yesterday, he suggested that AI be instead called superintelligence .  Of course, he had a few other remarks . President Donald Trump said he was considering whether to “annihilate” Iran, called the U.S. economy “the envy of the world” and suggested a name change for AI, in a speech at the United Nations General Assembly. The wide-ranging speech came ahead of several anticipated meetings on the sidelines with world leaders, including his first with Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, since the administration’s capture of Nicolás Maduro earlier this year. Today, Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington, D.C., to meet with Trump to talk trade, Taiwan and A I. Trump later said U.S. envoys met with Iranian officials for three hours on the sidelines of the gat...

The major television networks-- ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News and NBC --agreed today to suspend pooled coverage of President Donald Trump after the White House yesterday refused to allow CNN entrance.   This is an incredible and extraordinary escalation of the showdown between Trump and the White House press corps. “Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” Bryan Boughton, the Washington bureau chief at Fox News, wrote in a note to television pool members today, which was obtained by The New York Times. (Boughton is the acting chair of the television pool consortium; the networks rotate the chairmanship on a quarterly basis.) Here is how pool coverage has previously worked : They share the news, splitting, financial costs and distributing footage among themselves carried by news organizations worldwide. ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX News and NBC rotate covering all White House activitie s.  CNN was today supposed to follow Trump to...