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Stargate Is Back and the Robots Aren’t Even Psychic (Yet)

Welcome to 2025, where the future looks suspiciously like a badly reviewed episode of The X-Files but with less Mulder, more Microsoft.
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Stargate Is Back and the Robots Aren’t Even Psychic (Yet)
X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (represented in blue) that have been combined with infrared data from NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope (cyan, light blue, teal and orange), and radio from MeerKat (red). An inset shows a more detailed view of the immediate area around this unusual object in X-ray and radio light. NASA/Chandra/Spitzer/MeerKat via AP
Nicole James
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In January 2025, President Donald Trump launched a $500 billion Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative called, wait for it, Stargate.

Yes. Stargate. Not Eagle Shield, not Cyber Titan, not even Operation Data Freedom. And yes, this isn’t even the first Stargate.

Nicole James
Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.