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Trump and Xi Jinping Zhongnanhai tea said they reached a great trade agreement | International | Central News Agency CNA
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2026/5/15 12:45 (updated at 5/15 13:06) Please agree to our privacy policy to enable the news listening function. Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd from left) accompanied US President Trump (right) on a stroll in the Zhongnanhai Garden on the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing on the 15th. (Associated Press) (Central News Agency, Beijing, 15th, comprehensive foreign news reports) U.S. President Trump said today that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping have reached a “great trade deal,” but did not provide details. The two began the last day of talks. Agence France-Presse reported that Xi Jinping accompanied Trump on a stroll in the Zhongnanhai Garden on the west side of the Forbidden City in Beijing today. Trump said: “We have reached some great trade deals that are beneficial to both countries.” Trump’s visit to Beijing this time seeks to reach agreements in areas such as agriculture, aviation, and artificial intelligence (AI). He also hopes to ease differences between the two sides in a number of tense geostrategic areas, especially the war in the Middle East. Trump has described Xi Jinping as a “great leader” and a “friend,” but the other party’s response so far has been relatively low-key. However, Trump said that he “gained a lot” from the trip. The Associated Press reported that Trump and Xi Jinping strolled in Zhongnanhai Garden for about 10 minutes. As he walked, Trump exclaimed, “This is the most beautiful rose the world has ever seen.” Xi Jinping said he would give Trump rose seeds. Trump and Xi Jinping had tea and lunch together and are expected to leave China and return to the United States in the afternoon. (Compiled by: Lu Yingzi) 1150515 Support the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of sponsorship to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.



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The Government’s Page About Its AI Vetting Deals with Google, xAI, and Microsoft Is Missing from Its Website
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About a week ago, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) announced a deal with the AI companies Microsoft, xAI, and Google that allowed the government to inspect unreleased AI models before they’re released to the general public. Anthropic and OpenAI signed something similar way back in 2024. Here’s a long excerpt from the government’s announcement, dated May 5, 2026: “Today, the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. Through these expanded industry collaborations, CAISI will conduct pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities and advance the state of AI security. These agreements build on previously announced partnerships, which have been renegotiated to reflect CAISI’s directives from the secretary of commerce and America’s AI Action Plan.” But that excerpt had to be pulled from the Wayback Machine because that announcement is currently missing from the CAISI website. Reuters seems to have been the first to notice this, writing on Monday afternoon that using the original url revolved to an error page that said “Sorry, we cannot find that page,” and then later, redirected to the main CAISI page on the Commerce Department website. As of this writing on Monday night, the url is still a redirect to the CAISI page.

“These agreements support information-sharing,” the archived announcement says, along with “ensuring a clear understanding in government of AI capabilities and the state of international AI competition.” Gizmodo requested comment from the White House and Commerce Department on Monday evening, but did not immediately hear back. We will update this article if we receive a reply.



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Anthropic Has Added Several More Religions on Its Quest to Inject Perfect Morals into Claude
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            The original mysterious black box wasn’t an AI model at all, but the Kaaba, the black cube at the center of the Sacred Mosque of Mecca. Prior to Muhammad’s conquest of Mecca, the Kaaba was a sort of all-purpose repository of 360 sacred symbols from around the region. If you were, say, a busy merchant on his way to Medina, whatever the great spiritual truths of the universe may be, they were in there somewhere, so a prayer to the Kaaba had you covered in the god department and you were good to go. Anthropic seems to be doing something along these lines with Claude. Last week, representatives from Anthropic—along with OpenAI—attended an event in New York called the “Faith-AI Covenant” roundtable. The New York Board of Rabbis, the Hindu Temple Society of North America, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the U.S.-based Sikh Coalition, and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America were all in attendance.

Last month, I wrote about a series of meetings and dinners Anthropic organized with a collection of 15 Christian leaders. Anthropic was looking for advice from the Christians, and guidance on the supposed “spiritual development” of its Claude AI model. At the time Anthropic said it was working on arranging meetings with moral thinkers who represented other groups. It’s not clear from a fresh Associated Press piece about the Faith-AI Covenant meeting whether these latest conversations with religious leaders and the earlier meetings with Christians were part of a single coherent program at Anthropic, and whether the staff members who participated in the Christian summit participated in this one as well. Gizmodo asked Anthropic for clarity about this on Saturday, but Anthropic did not return our request as of this writing.

The Associated Press also says OpenAI and Anthropic “initiated outreach,” but also that a Swiss NGO called the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities organized it, and has plans for future events along similar lines in China, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates. Also mentioned as a “key partner” was Baroness Joanna Shields, a member of the British House of Lords.

There’s not a single clear takeaway in the AP story—no religious instructions laid out by all these spiritual leaders. But what Anthropic calls Claude’s constitution includes a dissection of the philosophically fraught moral work Anthropic is at least trying to do by injecting morals into a machine: getting it to make the decision of a person with perfect values when there’s no way to write a rule for a situation that arises, and the consequences of making the wrong decision could be dire. This, Anthropic writes, is “centrally because we worry that our efforts to give Claude good enough ethical values will fail.” To this end, the Associated Press story extracts some quietly devastating commentary from Rumman Chowdhury, CEO of a nonprofit called Humane Intelligence: “I think a very naive take that Silicon Valley has had for a couple of years related to generative AI was that we could arrive at some sort of universal principles of ethics,” Chowdhury told the AP, adding, “They have very quickly realized that that’s just not true. That’s not real. So now they’re looking at maybe religion as a way of dealing with the ambiguity of ethically gray situations.”

They are indeed looking at maybe religion. But it’s hard to picture Anthropic coming away from these meetings converted, and inserting one set of specific religious doctrines into Claude. They’re just trying to glean high order ethical truths, and demonstrating to the world that they’ve—ostensibly—left no stone unturned in searching for them. Your mileage will vary on whether you think a machine charged with making decisions or giving important advice would, when the chips are down, be able to synthesize ideal morals thanks to meetings its creators held with administrators from some of humanity’s premier religions. It probably can’t hurt, sorta like nodding at the pre-Islamic Kaaba. But then again, only God knows for sure.



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