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EU lawmakers call for summit to control ‘very powerful’ AI

Jerusalem Post They met in response to a letter that warned that AI could spread misinformation at an unprecedented rate, and that machines could “outnumber, outsmart, obsolete and replace” humans. https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-739471

Number of Russia’s IT industry employees rises by 12% in 2022

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. According to Maxim Parshin, salaries in the IT industry are now twice as high as in other industries https://tass.com/economy/1605473

US ambassador to Russia says she visited Gershkovich in Lefortovo detention unit on Monday

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court has ruled to take Gershkovich into custody until May 29 https://tass.com/society/1605469

America’s Most Prolific Logger Recasts Itself as Environmental Do-Gooder

Wall Street Journal Weyerhaeuser uses new climate math to court green investors, while cutting down as many trees as ever. https://www.wsj.com/articles/weyerhaeuser-logging-carbon-emissions-offset-market-environment-76850c01

Sudan conflict needs to be resolved by country’s people, MFA says

Disclaimer: TASS is Russian government propaganda, and not a reliable news source. It also noted that all the necessary measures had been taken to protect foreign missions as well as the offices of international organizations in Khartoum https://tass.com/world/1605467

The existential threat to Aukus: choking on US red tape

Disclaimer: The South China Morning Post’s content is directed by the Chinese Communist Party. It is not a reliable news source. The technology sharing central to the Australian-United Kingdom-United States security alliance faces entrenched bureaucratic hurdles. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3217323/existential-threat-aukus-choking-us-red-tape?utm_source=rss_feed

Coal Is Too Hot to Handle—Maybe Even for Glencore

Wall Street Journal The Swiss commodities giant has long argued that its thermal-coal assets worked better as part of a diversified miner. But its new bid for Teck Resources calls that contention into question. https://www.wsj.com/articles/coal-is-too-hot-to-handlemaybe-even-for-glencore-7188edae

Russian Prisons ‘Lost’ Up to 17,000 Convicts in 2022 – Mediazona

Moscow Times In exchange for a six-month military contract, mercenary outfit Wagner offered prisoners a pardon. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/04/17/russian-prisons-lost-up-to-17000-convicts-in-2022-mediazona-a80859

China says ‘major military activity’ to be conducted in Yellow Sea on April 18

Jerusalem Post https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-739470

Fetterman will chair first subcommittee hearing days after returning from weeks-long absence

Fox News Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., will lead a Senate panel in examining federal food benefits later this week in what will be his first hearing as chairman of a congressional subcommittee. Fetterman is expected to return to Capitol Hill today after being away for two months receiving treatment for depression at Walter Reed Medical…