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Artificial Intelligence: Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai says it’s ‘no question’ artificial intelligence needs regulation.
Bezos phone hack: United Nations experts said the phone of Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos was hacked after receiving a video file sent from a WhatsApp account used by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Chinese New Year and the Coronavirus: Governments around the world strove to control the outbreak of a novel coronavirus that threatens to grow during the Lunar New Year travel rush. China has quarantined 35 million people. Find out everything else you need to know about the coronavirus.
Davos: President Donald Trump reportedly underwhelmed at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting of international business and political elites in Sweden. Climate activist Greta Thunberg also spoke at the conference, countering many of the claims Trump made in his speech.
Meanwhile, a newspaper in the country reported that police foiled a spying operation involving Russians posing as plumbers. But police in the Swiss canton of Grisons, who said two men with Russian diplomatic passports had been the subjects of a routine identity check in Davos in August 2019, made no connection between their visit and the WEF.
Democrats feud: Bernie Sanders continues to face questions over his recent feud with Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren on sexism. Warren accused Sanders of encouraging campaign staffers to persuade voters by pointing out the uphill challenge any woman candidate would face. Then she called him a liar following a CNN debate between the Democratic candidates. But the party’s in-fighting descended to a Trumpian, grade school level of maturity when 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said about Sanders in the Hollywood Reporter interview: “No one likes him.”
The saga wasn’t complete, however, until New York Times columnist Paul Krugman weighed in to say that Sanders’ campaign was “behaving badly” and that Sanders should apologize to Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden of all people.
Impeachment: Democrats from the House of Representatives finished their opening arguments in the Senate’s impeachment trial this week, arguing that President Trump’s misdeeds stemmed from his falling for a Kremlin-backed conspiracy about Ukraine.
Iran: 34 U.S. service members were diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after an Iranian missile strike carried out in response to an American drone strike that killed Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Libya: Russia and Turkey are emerging as diplomatic leaders in negotiations to end a civil war dragging into its ninth year, Al Jazeera reported.
Super Bowl LIV: The San Francisco 49ers are gearing up for a long week in Miami, where they will play the Kansas City Chiefs. Read our 360 coverage of the 49ers here.
