US, China agree on AI dialogue before summit

The US and China agreed to an official AI dialogue, with Treasury Secretary Bessent also proposing a national-security-level notification mechanism for AI incidents. The announcement comes just before Thursday's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, the first on US soil since 2017.

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