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Joe Biden · JapanBiden will be accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to the plant run by Micron Technology Inc.'s Japanese unit. The U.S. administration is providing huge subsidies to expand its domestic chip industry. Washington aims to build resilient semiconductor supply chains with Japan and its other allies.
Biden may visit Japanese chip plant on G7 summit sidelines
Coverage: 2 sources
Donald Trump · WashingtonThe public today sees almost everything through the lens of partisanship, says Wendy Schiller, a political scientist at Brown University. The Republican billionaire's presidency has underscored and amplified the country's political divisions, she says. The indictment of Donald Trump has further entrenched perceptions that partisanship has cleaved the United States, she adds.
Trump indictment underscores gaping U.S. political divide
50% Right coverage: 8 sources
AsiaYoshimasa Hayashi is expected to demand the prompt release of a Japanese businessman detained on suspicion of espionage. Hayashi will also touch on China's assertive claims to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. The meeting will be the first held in-person between the countries' foreign ministers since November 2020.
In China, Hayashi looks to secure detained Japanese national's freedom
67% Left coverage: 3 sources
ChatGPTKris Kashtanova created "Zarya of the Dawn," an 18-page story about a character resembling the actress Zendaya. In February, the U.S. Copyright Office suddenly reversed itself, and KashTanova became the first person in the country to be stripped of legal protection for AI art. Now, with the help of a high-powered legal team, the artist is testing the limits of the law.
Humans versus machines: The fight to copyright AI art
Coverage: 2 sources
Artificial IntelligenceThe term artificial intelligence breeds misunderstanding and helps its creators avoid culpability for mistakes.
There's no such thing as artificial intelligence
40% Center coverage: 10 sources
Joe Biden · SpokaneChina's leading renewables firms are joining the rush to open factories in the U.S. Washington passed a landmark climate bill that supports local clean energy manufacturing. Some of the nation's top solar panel makers are involved in setting up American plants. The building boom underscores how the United States has rebuilt its credentials as a clean-tech manufacturing hub.
Biden’s landmark climate bill lures China’s clean energy giants
34% Center coverage: 3 sources
Russia detains American journalist in ‘dark turn’ for ties
47% Center coverage: 17 sources
Yoshimasa Hayashi · BeijingJapanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi said Friday he will visit China this weekend for talks with his counterpart Qin Gang, becoming Japan’s first top diplomat to do so in more than three years amid growing frictions between the two countries, including a recent flap over the detention of a Japanese national in Beijing.
Japan foreign minister Hayashi to visit Beijing on Saturday
41% Center coverage: 27 sources
