Intended to soak up global investment capital before China has a chance to do the same, the recently announced Stargate Project, with its ambitious $500 billion investment over four years, represents a seismic shift in the global AI race, not only in terms of scale but also in strategy and execution.

Apple last year deployed a mechanism for identifying landmarks and places of interest in images stored in the Photos application on its customers iOS and macOS devices and enabled it by default, seemingly without explicit consent.