James Bryson talks about what awaits those who take the plunge
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Good morning, happy Thursday! President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated meeting with Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping is today. Here’s what to know: |
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While AI and trade are expected to dominate talks, families of political prisoners in China are hoping the White House will call for the release of their loved ones.
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At the summit, the Chinese regime will be looking for U.S. concessions on trade, technology, and Taiwan, according to insiders familiar with the discussions.
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The U.S. and China have agreed to extend the trade truce for two months, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last night, after another round of talks with his Chinese counterpart.
- Top Democrats are calling for Trump to block Chinese access to advanced U.S. AI chips and chip-making equipment.
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In other news, today marks one month since the U.S. started its economic pressure campaign against Iran, marking the start of a new phase in the seven-month-long war. Timothy Frudd has more on “Operation Economic Outcast.”
AI firms have been hit with a raft of copyright lawsuits alleging that their use of information—from news to music to books—to train their AI models amounted to intellectual property theft. AI execs seemed to be aware that this process could harm businesses, flood the market with inferior work, and damage human society’s creative capacity as a whole, according to internal documents disclosed in one of those lawsuits.
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- One Microsoft document stated, “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.”
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OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT wrote that their AI products pose an “existential threat” to publishers, “are largely substitutive, period” and “will get more and more substitutive as they get better.”
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