How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall

How a 15,000-Person Island Stumbled Into a $70 Million AI Windfall

An anonymous reader shares a report: From Sandisk shareholders to vibe coders, AI is making -- and breaking -- fortunes at a rapid pace. One unlikely beneficiary has been the British Overseas Territory of Anguilla, which lucked into a future fortune when ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, gave the island the ".ai" top-level domain in the mid-1990s. Indeed, since ChatGPT's launch at the end of 2022, the gold rush for …

Elon Musk’s Digital Land Grab: The Billion-Dollar Race for .AI and the Tiny Island Cashing In

NEW YORK – In the ceaseless race for dominance in artificial intelligence, sometimes the most telling move isn’t a product launch or a multi-billion-dollar funding round, but a simple website redirect. When Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and steward of X, quietly pointed the web address x.ai to the homepage of his nascent AI venture, it was a declaration of intent. The two-letter domain, acquired years ago, is short, symbolic, and perfe…