Morning. When Anthony Albanese meets Joe Biden for talks and dinner at the White House tomorrow, the subject of the Middle East will surely be one of the main topics of conversation. But while they are seeing eye to eye on support for Israel, back home the Greens are kicking up a row about Australian defence exports to the Tel Aviv government. It comes as the UN secretary-general calls for an immediate ceasefire to end “epic suffering” in Gaza.
In the US, Donald Trump’s fraud trial has heard that he told staff to “reverse-engineer” asset values to a number he made up. And Google’s AI chief reckons the risks posed by artificial intelligence technology should be taken as seriously as climate change.
