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At a Washington gathering, Sen. Bernie Sanders calls for a global treaty to pause advanced AI and ban super-intelligence, while Steve Bannon urges a hard-line China quarantine—expelling researchers and severing tech ties—highlighting starkly different paths to regulate AI amid fears of an AI-driven Cold War with Beijing and concerns about Silicon Valley's power.
President Trump is set to announce that about a dozen drugmakers will voluntarily lower prices on outpatient drugs, expanding the administration’s push to tie U.S. prices to cheaper foreign rates under its 'most favored nation' policy. The effort follows deals with roughly 17 pharma companies over the past year and a May 2025 executive order reviving the policy. Participating manufacturers would offer discounts to state Medicaid programs (optional participation) and may be exempt from Medicare discount pilots, as part of a broader strategy to curb healthcare costs ahead of elections, while drugmakers expand direct-to-consumer channels such as the TrumpRx portal.
Sen. Lindsey Graham offered a heated defense of Donald Trump’s remarks about Americans’ finances, invoking Churchill and Nazis in a way that drew scrutiny for employing provocative historical analogies in a political argument.