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China's foreign aid strategy has shifted in the last few decades and now its model may be the one the US is adopting as China moves away from it.
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The company's Claude chatbot is one of the few AI systems cleared for use in classified settings. But a standoff between Anthropic and the Trump administration is putting its government work at risk.
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