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Biden Announces $3.3 Billion Microsoft AI Center at Trump’s Failed Foxconn Site

✇NYT: Technology
Erica L. Green
The president’s visit to Wisconsin celebrated the investment by Microsoft in a center to be built on the site of a failed Foxconn project negotiated by his predecessor.

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President Biden at the Intel campus in Chandler, Ariz., in March. His “Investing in America” agenda has focused on bringing billions of private-sector dollars into manufacturing and industries such as clean energy and artificial intelligence.

A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows

✇NYT: Technology
David E. Sanger
The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a “global internet” connecting the world has been shattered.

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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Monday. He has described an increasingly zero-sum competition, in which countries will be forced to choose between signing up for a Western-dominated “stack” of technologies or a Chinese-dominated one.

How To Know When a Good Dog Has Gone Bad

✇NYT: Science
Emily Anthes
Gov. Kristi Noem suggested that President Biden should have euthanized the family dog, as she did. Animal experts said that such an option should be a last resort.

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President Biden’s dog, Commander, a German shepherd, being walked outside the West Wing of the White House last year.

U.S. Lags Behind Other Countries in Hepatitis-C Cures

✇NYT: Science
Ted Alcorn
Despite an arsenal of drugs, many Americans are still unaware of their infections until it’s too late. A Biden initiative languishes without Congressional approval.

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Dr. Sanjeev Arora, a gastroenterologist in Albuquerque, founded Project ECHO in the early 2000s to connect primary care doctors in sparsely populated areas with specialists. ECHO’s New Mexico hepatitis C program has provided treatment for more than 10,000 patients.

Biden Delays Ban on Menthol Cigarettes

✇NYT: Science
Christina Jewett and Noah Weiland
The proposal had been years in the making, in an effort to curb death rates of Black smokers targeted by Big Tobacco. In an election year, the president’s worries about support among Black voters may have influenced the postponement.

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Public health groups supporting the ban of menthol cigarettes cited years of data suggesting that the cigarettes, long marketed to African American smokers, make it more palatable to start smoking and more difficult to stop.

Key Solar Panel Ingredient Is Made in the U.S.A. Again

✇NYT: Technology
Ivan Penn
REC Silicon says it will soon start shipping polysilicon, which has come mostly from China, reviving a Washington State factory that shut down in 2019.

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REC Silicon is preparing to fulfill its first shipment of polysilicon granules, which are used in the production of solar panels, at its factory in Moses Lake, Wash.
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