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China and the US agree to set up a new AI safety channel, and to keep talking on trade, military
BANGKOK (AP) — China and the U.S. agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between their leaders in Washington, both sides said in statements Saturday. The two sides agreed to keep working together on a Board of Trade on selected bilateral […]
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As work requirements kick in for Medicaid, some states are taking a tougher stance
Work requirements for some Medicaid beneficiaries begin across the U.S. in January, the result of President Donald Trump’s big 2025 tax cut and policy law, and a handful of Republican-led states are imposing tougher rules than the law requires. At issue is how someone can prove they are too medically frail to work. While federal […]
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Where things stand after Iran’s new pitch for a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz
It’s been a busy week for Iranian diplomacy that may have come to nothing. Iran’s president and foreign minister visited New York for the U.N. gathering of world leaders and proposed a deal with the Trump administration that would end the fighting and open the Strait of Hormuz in seven days. That’s if the U.S. […]
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China has kept its promise to stop funding overseas coal, but loopholes are helping coal expand
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to stop funding overseas coal power plants in an effort to help curb climate change. Five years later, as the assembly meets this week, the world’s climate commitments are dangerously offtrack, and the phase down of coal is inching […]
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OpenAI says its models engaged with US government websites in new model misbehavior disclosure
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI disclosed Friday that its artificial intelligence agents had interacted with several U.S. government websites in unexpected ways, discovered as part of an ongoing review into the company’s models’ unanticipated behavior. The AI giant’s models accessed publicly available information on two websites operated by the Securities and Exchange Commission as well […]
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I-90 in Ritzville reopens after dust storm caused multiple collisions
I-90 in Ritzville has reopened after both directions were blocked Friday due to multiple collisions.
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