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António Guterres, the United Nations secretary-general, has been
one of the highest-profile advocates for the fight against
climate change. That effort has been rattled by promises by U.S.
President Donald Trump to “ drill, baby, drill ” and expand
fossil-fuel production in the world's largest economy.
Here's a look at what's on tap Wednesday at the annual meeting
of elites in the Swiss Alps.
What to make of Artificial Intelligence: Promise, peril or
both?
The CEO of AI startup Groq and others take up the idea of
artificial general intelligence, a futuristic vision of machines
that are as broadly smart as humans or at least can do many
things as well as people can.
AGI has prompted concern for world governments and some top
scientists have warned that unchecked AI agents with “long-term
planning” skills could pose an existential risk to humanity.
A day earlier, Trump highlighted a joint venture that plans to
invest up to $500 billion for infrastructure linked to AI though
a new partnership formed by Oracle, SoftBank and OpenAI, the
maker of the ChatGPT — whose chatbot has led to fascination with
its ability to perform basic business tasks and answer complex
questions, albeit with varying degrees of accuracy.
The Stargate project plans to build out data centers and the
electricity generation needed by voracious power needs of
fast-evolving AI in Texas, the White House said.
Prime Ministers of Spain and Malaysia
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will deliver an address as
leaders of the European Union, a key U.S. trading partner,
continues to assess the return to power of Trump, who has
promised tariffs on goods from friend and foe alike in the
coming months.
Trump appeared to mistakenly lump in Spain, one of the stronger
economic performers in the EU last year, with the BRICS bloc of
developing economies — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South
Africa — on Tuesday. The U.S. leader has put pressure on Europe
to spend more on defense.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim takes the podium after
the southeast Asian nation and its neighbor Singapore struck a
deal to create a special economic zone that would ramp up job
creation and lure investment.
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