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It can be used in informal writing as an abbreviation for "artificial intelligence". For example: "Thanks to ai technologies, it is now possible to automate many mundane tasks."
A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who used to act for artist Ai Weiwei has been charged with inciting ethnic hatred and "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" – offences that carry a 10-year jail sentence.
Sensibly, Ai Weiwei wasn't in those boxes himself: he, unlike Jovovich, had a bit of previous with unsimulated incarceration.
One year ago, an artists' manifesto for Belarus was published, calling for free speech and signed by Stoppard, Ai Weiwei and, in one of his last public acts, Václav Havel.
Mr Ai wanted to change their lives.
A forceful advocate of democracy and free speech, Mr Ai used his blog to confront the fictions of government propaganda.
In the Chinese language, 140 characters is a novella," says Mr Ai in an interview at the back of "Ai Weiwei's Blog", a collection of over a hundred translated pieces culled from over 2,700 posts.
This is the latest in a series of escalating skirmishes between him and the Chinese government.For "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry", which will be released in the autumn, Ms Klayman filmed and followed the artist from 2008 to 2010.
Mr Ai thought the outcry was misplaced because the heads are not Chinese and have "no artistic value".
The Chinese government, for its part, has given Mr Ai very little indication of his fate.
But Mr Ai happens to be an outspoken critic of the games.Ten hours before the games begin, Lord Foster and Mr Ai find themselves in a small lecture room in an art gallery opened last year by a Belgian couple, Guy and Myriam Ullens, on the north-eastern edge of Beijing.
One local exporter, Liu Minghui, rejected a big share of the beans offered to him last year he has a brand name to protect, after all: Starbucks, a global coffee chain, has agreed to buy a majority stake in his coffee business, Ai Ni.
