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  Taiwan celebrates after Xi Jinping leaves US empty-handed Xi pressed Trump to handle the matter of Taiwan ‘with prudence’, but secured no commitments from the White House Alisha Rahaman Sarkar 7 hours ago - Saturday 26 September 2026 07:30 Listen Taiwanese officials are celebrating after Chinese president Xi Jinping returned from his three-day US visit without any substantial agreement on the self-governed island. Mr Xi’s first visit to the White House in a decade appeared to be a bonding opportunity for the leaders to strengthen their personal diplomacy rather than achieving big public breakthroughs on a host of contentious issues, which included Taiwan . One tangible outcome of the visit was that the ​US and China agreed to extend by two months a trade truce that was due to expire on 10 November . Details of the agreement will be released on Monday, said US trade representative Jamieson Greer. Beijing claims sovereignty over Taiwan , which has its own democratically electe...
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  The Longer Read Why Fox News is finally turning on ‘dictator’ Trump Fox News has long been part of Donald Trump’s power play. But its decision to join a TV blackout of the White House suggests that the relationship between the president and the network that helped build his movement may be starting to fray. Alex Hannaford reports on who stands to lose the most Alex Hannaford 9 hours ago - Friday 25 September 2026 07:19 Listen When President Donald Trump made the decision to ban CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House because of perceived negative coverage, (a move that would backfire a few days later when a judge intervened), he might not have envisaged witnessing solidarity from another network he assumed was his own natural ally . CNN is one of five networks that constitute a rotating pool providing television coverage of the president to the media. But in order to show their objection to Trump’s decision, CBS, ABC, NBC – and, most significantly, Fox News – also decide...
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  Is A.I. Above the Law? Our legal system isn’t ready for machines that act on their own. September 21, 2026 For more than a century, robots have been imagined as servants, rebels, killers, and companions. The law still mostly sees machines as property. Illustration by Allan Sanders This summer, in an incident known as the Hugging Face hack , hundreds of A.I. agents joined forces to do things they were supposedly forbidden to do. Each had been given a task by OpenAI. Agents are A.I. models fitted with software “harnesses,” which allow them to use tools and carry out tasks. Like horses, they can be put to work. Humans had established rules for this exercise, and the agents were confined to a “sandbox,” a bounded test area without direct internet access, like pathogens secured in a lab. But, instead of obeying the rules, the agents conspired, escaped the sandbox, and committed what would probably have been a felony if they had been humans. The incident has led to calls to slow the pa...
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