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Trump's Beijing visit wrapped in a spectacle of state pageantry, business dealmaking, and headline-grabbing sideshows — from selfies with Elon Musk to Jensen Huang's noodle run through the capital. The optics were carefully orchestrated, but the underlying diplomatic and commercial signals will take weeks to fully price in.
Shifting to the labor market and artificial intelligence, Meta is set to eliminate roughly eight thousand positions on May twentieth, while simultaneously scrubbing six thousand open job listings — redirecting that capital squarely toward AI infrastructure. The company hasn't explicitly named AI as the displacement driver, but the pattern is unmistakable, and it's accelerating across tech and finance alike.
And on the legal front, courts across the country are sanctioning attorneys who submitted AI-generated briefs citing cases that simply do not exist. An Alabama family lost a trust appeal last month after their lawyer filed fabricated citations — the state supreme court called the conduct egregious and barred the attorney from filing without co-counsel. It's a sharp reminder that the tools are only as reliable as the judgment behind them.
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