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HONG KONG: China’s President Xi Jinping pledged “self-reliance and self-strengthening” to develop AI in China, state media reported on Saturday (Apr 26), as the country vies with the US for supremacy in artificial intelligence, a key strategic area. Speaking at a Politburo meeting study session on Friday, Xi said China should leverage its “new whole national system” to push forward with the development of AI. “We must recognise the gaps and redouble our efforts to comprehensively advance technological innovation, industrial development, and AI-empowered applications,” said Xi, according to the official Xinhua news agency. Xi noted policy support would be provided…

Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a review to determine if other critical posts were cut.A spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the rehirings and said that several employees would also be restored to the offices that deal with Freedom of Information requests, an area that was nearly wiped out.In the last few months, roughly 3,500 F.D.A. jobs, about 20 percent, were eliminated, representing one of the largest work force reductions among all government agencies targeted…

Few teenagers would want the world to read their poems. At 13, Charlotte Brontë collected her verse in a humble anthology that already hinted at her ambition to become an author at a time when few women wrote for a public audience.Written in the winter of 1829, the poems in Brontë’s “Book of Rhymes” were written in tiny script to fit on scraps of paper no larger than playing cards that were hand-stitched together with a carefully written contents page. The writer of “Jane Eyre” probably didn’t intend to publish her juvenile poetry, writing in the inner cover “Sold By…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldA few weeks ago, a British government official privately joked to me that London’s markets have become “chained to a drunken dragon”. The reason? Gilt yields used to move (mostly) in response to British fundamentals. But Bank of England research suggests these are increasingly being knocked about by US government bond prices. That is ironic, given how keen the British government — like the rest of Europe — is to exert economic sovereignty and ringfence the UK from America. It…

KKR’s dealmakers are no strangers to trying to make money from messy situations. Even so, a trip to Thames Water’s sprawling Beckton Sewage Treatment works is not the most inviting assignment. Originally built as part of the Victorian sewage system overseen by Sir Joseph Bazalgette, Beckton is now the biggest waste treatment works in Europe, serving more than 4mn Londoners. It has required extensive upgrades to try to curtail human waste flowing into the river Thames during torrential rain.Executives from the US private equity firm recently took in the sights and smells of Beckton during a whistle-stop tour of Thames Water’s…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! “Knots Landing” actress Lar Park Lincoln has died. She was 63. Her daughter, Piper Lincoln, confirmed to Fox News Digital that her mother lost her battle with breast cancer on Tuesday.Piper shared that the elder Lincoln was surrounded by loved ones at the time of her death and will always be remembered as a “great mother and a great actress.”HOLLYWOOD STARS WHO DIED IN 2025: PHOTOS Lar Park Lincoln has lost her battle with breast cancer, her daughter confirmed to Fox News Digital. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)Lincoln was a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Shedeur Sanders went from being a top-five overall selection to not even a top-five quarterback.Cam Ward, Jaxson Dart, Tyler Shough, Jalen Milroe, and Dillon Gabriel were all selected ahead of Sanders over the first three rounds of the NFL Draft.It’s an unprecedented, stunning fall for Sanders, who some mocks even had No. 1 earlier this offseason. Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders (2) walks toward the locker room during the first half of the team’s NCAA college football game against Washington State, Friday, Nov. 17, 2023, in Pullman, Wash.  (AP Photo/Young Kwak)After dropping out…

It is April 4, 1975, a beautiful, sunny day in Saigon – soon to be renamed Ho Chi Minh City. But there is violence and turmoil in the air. The Vietnam War is in its final weeks, and North Vietnamese forces have surrounded the city, inciting chaos as the South Vietnamese populace and its US allies scramble to evacuate those most at risk of reprisals. Untold numbers will ultimately be left behind, but more than 100,000 politicians, military figures, and others associated with the now-rapidly losing side will be airlifted for resettlement. Among the latter are dozens of orphaned infants…

The Kennedy Center has canceled a week’s worth of events celebrating LGBTQ+ people for the World Pride festival in Washington, D.C., amid a change in focus and the Trump administration firing the center’s leadership.Multiple artists and producers involved in the center’s Tapestry of Pride schedule said their events had been quietly canceled or transferred to other venues. The Tapestry of Pride was planned for June 5 to 8 before the cancellation.Washington’s Capital Pride Alliance disassociated itself from the Kennedy Center in response to the canceled events.”We are a resilient community, and we have found other avenues to celebrate,” the alliance’s…

One of my most deeply held values as a tech columnist is humanism. I believe in humans, and I think that technology should help people, rather than disempower or replace them. I care about aligning artificial intelligence — that is, making sure that A.I. systems act in accordance with human values — because I think our values are fundamentally good, or at least better than the values a robot could come up with.So when I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the A.I. company that made the Claude chatbot, were starting to study “model welfare” — the idea that A.I. models…