World Business
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Grok blocked from undressing images in places where it’s illegal, X says
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok won’t be able to edit photos to portray real people in revealing clothing in places where that is illegal, according to a statement posted on X.
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China’s trade surplus surges 20% to a record $1.2 trillion, even with Trump’s tariffs
China’s trade surplus surged to a record of almost $1.2 trillion in 2025, the government said Wednesday, as exports to other countries made up for slowing shipments to the U.S. under President Donald Trump's onslaught of higher tariffs.
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Trump calls North American trade pact he brokered ‘irrelevant’
President Donald Trump expressed indifference toward the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, portending a lengthy renegotiation of the U.S.'s largest free-trade pact.
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith pushes Big Tech to ‘pay our way’ for AI data centers amid rising opposition
It won’t be easy for Big Tech companies to win the hearts and minds of Americans who are angered about massive artificial intelligence data centers sprouting up in their neighborhoods, straining electricity grids and drawing on local reservoirs.
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Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images
Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grow among global authorities that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.
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China and EU agree on steps to resolve EV imports dispute
China and the European Union said Monday they have agreed on steps toward resolving their dispute over the bloc’s imports of Chinese-made electric vehicles.
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Trump promises oil executives ‘total safety’ if they invest in Venezuela after Maduro ouster
President Donald Trump on Friday called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House tries to quickly secure $100 billion in investments to fix the country's neglected infrastructure and fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.
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US trade deficit fell to lowest level since 2009 as tariffs reshape trade
The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services shrank to $29.4 billion in October, down from $48.1 billion the prior month as the Trump administration’s tariffs reshaped global trade, data from the Commerce Department showed Thursday.
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US seeks to assert its control over Venezuelan oil with tanker seizures and sales worldwide
President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday sought to assert its control over Venezuelan oil, seizing a pair of sanctioned tankers transporting petroleum and announcing plans to relax some sanctions so the U.S. can oversee the sale of Venezuela's petroleum worldwide.
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US sets out bare-bones plan to control Venezuela’s oil sales
Trump administration officials Wednesday outlined a sweeping albeit bare-bones plan to effectively assume control of selling oil from Venezuela indefinitely.
