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Russia and China hold a summit in Beijing. Only days after United States President Donald Trump鈥檚 China trip, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to arrive in Beijing Tuesday for a state visit hosted by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In a video address prior to departing, Mr. Putin pledged to 鈥渄eepen鈥� what Beijing and Moscow have dubbed their 鈥渘o limits鈥� partnership, which he said would help in 鈥渕aintaining global security and stability,鈥� according to China鈥檚 state-run Xinhua News Agency. By importing Russian oil and providing equipment that has both civilian and military uses,聽China has been a lifeline for Moscow since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, increasing Russian economic dependence on China.

President Donald Trump moved to dismiss his lawsuit against the IRS. Mr. Trump filed the $10 billion suit in January over the leak of his tax returns during his first presidency. The judge overseeing the case had set a hearing for next week on potential issues related to a president suing, in his personal capacity, an agency that he runs. As part of the settlement, the Justice Department has created a $1.776 billion 鈥淎nti-Weaponization Fund鈥� to compensate people who believe they were unfairly targeted by previous administrations. 鈥淭here are no partisan requirements to file a claim,鈥� the Justice Department wrote in its announcement. The fund will cease operations after December 2028.

Hungary and Ukraine are planning talks about the rights of Hungarian minorities in Ukraine. It portends a closer relationship between the two countries since the election of Hungarian Prime Minister P茅ter Magyar. On Thursday, Hungary summoned the Russian ambassador to protest a drone attack in the region of western Ukraine that is home to 100,000 ethnic Hungarians. That meeting signaled less amicable relations between Budapest and Moscow since former Prime Minister Viktor Orb谩n left office. Meanwhile, Russia and longtime ally Belarus launched a joint drill of tactical nuclear weapons on Monday. In December, Russia deployed some of its nuclear missiles to Belarus, which also shares borders with Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.

A Minnesota county charged an ICE agent for a shooting incident. The four charges of assault in the second degree stem from a Jan. 14 incident in which 海角大神 Castro, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, allegedly chased two men and fired through the door of a residence where they had fled. One bullet struck Julio Cesar-Celis, a Venezuelan who鈥檇 been granted Temporary Protected Status. A prosecutor for Hennepin County denied the officer鈥檚 claims that the two men assaulted him with a shovel and a broom. The county is still investigating the separate fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by ICE agents earlier this year.

A jury dismissed Elon Musk鈥檚 lawsuit against OpenAI. Mr. Musk claims that he was betrayed by OpenAI after helping finance it with the understanding that it was a nonprofit venture. In 2019, OpenAI launched a profit-seeking arm under CEO and co-founder Sam Altman. OpenAI counterclaimed that Mr. Musk was not only aware of those plans but wanted full control of the company. The jury in the Oakland, California, court decided that Mr. Musk exceeded the statute of limitations by waiting too long to file a lawsuit. The billionaire launched his own for-profit artificial intelligence company, xAI, in 2023.
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Like many new technologies that hold both promise and risk, artificial intelligence might be reaching a global inflection point. Last week, for example, China and the United States agreed at a summit to start talks on defining possible guardrails for AI. Meanwhile, a global watchdog, the Financial Stability Board, has invited Anthropic to provide a briefing on how the AI firm鈥檚 latest model, Mythos, might pinpoint vulnerabilities in world financial systems. Since 2023, annual AI Safety Summits have been hosted in Asia and Europe.

Even beyond such cooperation between governments, religious thinkers are stepping up to offer advice. In March, for instance, a group of Catholic theologians issued a document stating that AI鈥檚 promise 鈥渟timulates the search for a deeper understanding of the nature of human intelligence, its uniqueness ... its irreplaceability, especially in relation to moral responsibility.鈥�

Such recognition of the need for international cooperation reflects the fact that national or natural borders are insufficient to constrain access to AI鈥檚 benefits 鈥� or its risks. Rather, agreed-upon guardrails or operating principles 鈥� among national governments, as well as among private-sector innovators and entrepreneurs 鈥� are likely to be more effective. For instance, recognizing the potential for exploitative use of its Mythos agent, Anthropic voluntarily held off on its public release. Instead, it offered access to major technology and financial firms so they could use it to fix their weaknesses.

Some analysts view this period as another Bretton Woods moment 鈥� recalling the historic 1944 agreement forged by Western allies to establish shared rules and standards to govern the international financial and trade system for a future of peace and stability. Those farsighted discussions 鈥� conducted in the thick of World War II 鈥� put in place a new structure that allowed both 鈥渨inners鈥� and 鈥渓osers鈥� to participate in a global system that provided transparency, reliability, and consensus.

鈥淏asic human intuitions of fairness, cooperation, curiosity, and autonomy,鈥� Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei believes, lead to 鈥渞ule of law鈥� and to democratic institutions. AI, with its ability to process and disseminate information widely, can help 鈥渕ake the logic ... and the destination clearer,鈥� he wrote in an October 2024 essay.

But Mr. Amodei鈥檚 implication is clear: The impetus toward these ideals emanates not from the technology, but from the individuals and societies that discern and uphold values such as cooperation and the common good.