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China is establishing an identity system for artificial intelligence agents, as part of new national standards released on Friday to regulate the next frontier of…
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International search and rescue teams from at least 17 countries are being scrambled to Venezuela to help look for survivors of Wednesday’s devastating twin earthquakes,…