Trump announced an AI czar ', ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protestors, and Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process

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The Trump administration announced an AI czar for his newly created Super Intelligence Force.

ICE is reportedly using a Palantir database to compile dossiers on protesters.

And Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process. It's Monday, October 5th, and here's a quick look at some of the news happening in the sphere of tech this morning from Engadget.

Well, if the future of AI has you worried, there's no need to fret now because the Super Intelligence Force is here. At least that's what President Donald Trump wants Americans to think. Trump has gone so far to re-brand the term artificial intelligence with the creation of his new task force meant to maintain the US poll position in the industry. To lead the task force, Trump tapped Jay Clayton, the country's director of national intelligence. The president detailed that the newly formed group would work with consumers, public interest groups, religious organizations, critical infrastructure providers, and artificial intelligence companies. As first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the Super Intelligence Force already has its first task, which is to create a report on the risks and opportunities related to AI within 120 days. Along with Clayton, Trump also tapped Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Emile Michael, the Department of Defense's undersecretary of war for research and engineering and chief technology officer, and Scott Cooper, the office of personnel management's director. Trump said that the group will report to him and his chief of staff, Susie Wiles. The creation and staffing of the Super Intelligence Force comes a couple of weeks after Trump announced that he would create a new AI force. Around the same time, the president also polled his followers on Truth Social about rebranding the term artificial intelligence. Now that the Super Intelligence Force is official, the task force will eventually share the recommendations for the federal government's responsibilities related to AI during the current climate where many company CEOs have been calling for a development slowdown.

As revealed by unsealed court documents, Department of Homeland Security agents are allegedly creating dossiers on those that are accused of observing or protesting immigration and customs enforcement agents. As first reported by Wired, these DHS files on protesters reportedly include sensitive info like photos and license plate numbers and are stored in a database built by Palantir called Investigative Case Management. The new information comes from a partially unsealed court filing about a January ICE operation that took place in Maine. The filing is part of a class-action lawsuit, which led to a redacted version becoming available to the public on Friday, and revealing the purported database of ICE protesters. According to the lawsuit, DHS agents would track and intimidate observers or protesters, sometimes by driving by their homes or labeling them as threat to law enforcement, professional protester. In one example, an agent reportedly called one of the plaintiffs on her cell, and suggested that she'd tell her spouse not to do anything like that in the future, because people who are doing things like that might get added to a domestic terrorism watch list. The lawyers representing the plaintiffs said that this sort of database creates a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of protestors. On the other side, a DHS spokesperson told Wired that the case was meritless and denied the existence of such a database that labels and tracks domestic terrorists.

Video game companies are increasingly leaning on AI to help develop new titles, and Capcom will be the latest to embrace that approach. During a company conference, Capcom detailed the next steps for the RE Engine, its proprietary video game engine, that includes using AI to improve efficiency during the game development process. As first reported by Gamebiz and IGN, Capcom's game engine would undergo a major improvement project called REX to eventually become a game engine of the AI generation. Capcom's programmer, Satoshi Ishida, explained during the conference that the AI usage would mostly help with streamlining development workflows. Ishida explained that games and their assets have become much larger these days, leading to longer development times. From Capcom's latest remarks, it does not seem like the company will be using AI-generated assets in its video games, but instead employing AI to speed up the game development process. Previously, Capcom said during a Q&A portion of a shareholders' meeting that it would explore ways to use AI to assist with things like graphics, sound and programming, but clearly stated that it would not use AI-generated content in its games. This approach would line up with Capcom's desire to breathe new life into some of its older franchises, especially since the company saw success with the release of Onimusha, Way of the Sword. Other major game companies have also welcomed the use of AI for game development like Epic Games, which detailed that it would incorporate Claude and Gemini into Unreal Engine earlier this year.