G20 Summit

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Lula urges G20 members to take action to slow global warming

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies Tuesday by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions.

https://apnews.com/article/g20-gaza-ukraine-brazil-un-bb4f4ece63832580498d5829199c67b4?

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ADRA Brazil Shares Humanitarian Assistance Strategies at G20 Event

The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) in Brazil participated in the first G20 Social, an event organized by The Group of Twenty (G20), an intergovernmental forum that addresses major global economic issues, at its 2024 meeting in Rio de Janeiro that began on November 14.

https://adventistreview.org/news-releases/adra-brazil-shares-humanitarian-assistance-strategies-at-g20-event/

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Takeaways from the first G20 summit in Africa and a look ahead to the next one at Trump’s golf club

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The first Group of 20 summit in Africa that ended Sunday broke new ground by putting the priorities of poor countries at the top of the bloc’s agenda.

https://apnews.com/article/g20-summit-us-trump-south-africa-9319ab09e72bb7ded49984f71cd591ac?

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Axios interview: Lutnick's summit flex

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who'll preside over a parade of tech tycoons at today's G20 innovation summit, tells me he's confident the U.S. will stay ahead of China in the AI race by continuing to define the frontier.

• "It's teacher-student," Lutnick said yesterday in a sunny conference room at the Carolina Inn, between meetings with Chinese and Turkish officials.
• China's open-weight models, he told me, "study off of the large language models of America. ... The teacher is the smartest person in the world, and relentlessly pushing to the frontier."

Why it matters: Lutnick, a late-night confidant of President Trump, will use today's G20 Innovation Ministerial to project American brio on the world stage, at a time when China sees openings to best the U.S. and Silicon Valley faces an escalating populist revolt.

When I asked Lutnick if he sees the administration taking a heavier hand in regulating AI releases, imports and exports, he said instantly: "No, the opposite."

• He sees the temporary June controls on Anthropic's most powerful models as a one-off, with the takeaway that models should be allowed to compete if they're guardrailed "reasonably."
• "I think it's going, actually, well," he said of the administration's current approach.

🎤 Nevertheless, the White House showed it's willing to intervene aggressively. So when Lutnick asked some of the world's most powerful tech moguls to appear with him today for fireside chats, he got a hearty response.

• Lutnick will open with a breakfast conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, then interview Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (lunch) and Palantir CEO Alex Karp.

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🤖 AI tensions surface at summit

Axios' Maria Curi writes from the G20 innovation summit in Chapel Hill, N.C.:

Trump administration officials came to this week's innovation summit to project a united front on U.S. AI leadership. But tensions between the Commerce Department and the White House's tech policy shop are playing out behind the scenes.

• Why it matters: The Trump administration wants the world to follow its lead on AI policy, even as it grapples with divisions at home.

The two-day G20 Innovation Ministerial, which culminates today, features some of the tech industry's heaviest hitters and officials from the world's most powerful countries.

• Officials and executives pitched the U.S. as a model for other countries on AI, contrasting its lighter regulatory approach with the European Union's heavier hand.

🔭 Between the lines: The Commerce Department and OSTP are jockeying for control over the administration's AI policy agenda as key regulatory decisions remain unsettled.

• Commerce holds many of the administration's most important AI policy levers, including the Bureau of Industry and Security and the Center for AI Standards and Innovation.

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