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Friday Update: Competing Conferences

This week saw a flurry of diplomatic activity, with the G7 summit in Japan and China’s inaugural China-Central Asia summit. At the G7, leaders will address China’s growing assertiveness, while China is seeking to deepen its influence in Central Asia. Meanwhile, Meta publicly released its latest A.I. technology, LLaMA, as open-source software, and OpenAI unveiled a new version of ChatGPT for the iPhone. In Myanmar, the military regime is stalling aid efforts after Cyclone Mocha made landfall, and in Ukraine, Russia attacked Kyiv for the ninth time this month. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Andy Warhol was not entitled to appropriate someone else’s photo of Prince into a portrait series, and Montana’s governor signed a bill banning TikTok from operating inside the state. Finally, don’t miss the Mini Crossword, the Wordle, and the Spelling Bee.