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a key spy tool, but did manage to pass a stop cap measure to keep negotiating for 45 days.

Republicans will have to figure out how to reach consensus among themselves for a lie

on Democrats to put together a foreign package as imperial's Eric McDaniel reports. The tool is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as FISA. U.S. intelligence agencies use it to scoop up the communications of more than 300,000 foreign nationals located outside of the U.S. each year. The government says the intelligence collected under FISA 702 underpins a huge share of the

President's daily intelligence briefings. But reformers in both parties have long been concerned about the government reviewing Americans' private information gathered as part of the surveillance, and unsuccessfully pushed for law enforcement to need a warrant before agents could do targeted reviews of the communications of U.S. citizens in the database.

Eric McDaniel and P.R. News, the capital. "Goes in and Trump is named a new nominee for Surgeon General and P.R.'s pink-wong report. She's a position and a wellness influencer." Dr. Nicole Sapphire is a radiologist and director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New Jersey.

She's also written books on wellness and sells a line of herbal supplements on Amazon. Her podcast called Wellness Unmasked, Sapphire talked about the role of the Surgeon General in February.

"It's a very important role because it is the nation's doctor.

The biggest skill that this person needs is they need to be able to effectively communicate with the public, public health messaging." Sapphire replaces Dr. K.C. Means, who Trump nominated last year. Her confirmation got stalled by Democratic and some Republican senators, who raised concerns over her lack of qualifications for the role, and her views on vaccines.

King Quang and P.R. News. "There was a lot of movement in big tech stocks Thursday and P.R.'s drunk, which reports that some of the biggest ups and downs followed, earnings reports that showed ambitious plans for spending on AI." MetaSync, as much as 10% before recovering some ground, just this week, the parent company

at Facebook posted better than expected revenue and quarterly profits, but Meta also said

it could spend a whopping $145 billion this year as it pours money into AI.

Three gets said it's planning to lay off a tenth of its workforce. Traders didn't like it. They did like what they saw from Google, though. It reported soaring revenue from its cloud computing division. Google also revised up its spending forecast for the year with capital expenditures of as much

as $190 billion. It shares leps 10%. Big tech and startups alike have been investing heavily in AI, and analysts have been worried about whether or not they'll get a return on all the investment. John Roowich and PR news.

Following Thursday's rally on Wall Street Asian shares are higher, though most markets in the region are closed for May Day holidays. This is in PR news. A major study finds that artificial intelligence has made big advances in medical reasoning and can outperform doctors on some common tasks.

The research was published in the journal Science Thursday and P.R.'s Will Stone has more. Researchers at Harvard Medical School found that an AI reasoning model, developed by Open AI, excelled at diagnosing patients and making decisions about managing their care. It matched and often outperformed doctors in the earlier AI model GPT4. The study included actual cases from the emergency department at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical

Center. Dr. Adam Rodman was one of the study authors. "This is not an artifact of our evaluation methods, but it works for making diagnoses in the real world." Norman says their study does not suggest AI should replace doctors.

But it is a call to do forward-looking trials to see whether AI models can actually improve care. Will Stone and PR news. Elon Musk testified for a third day Thursday and the court case that could reshape the future

of one of the world's most powerful AI companies.

Musk told the court that he sued Open AI after deciding his co-founders put profit ahead of the company's founding mission. The case pits Musk against fellow Open AI founder Sam Aldman. Following King Charles of State visit President Trump said he will lift certain tariffs on Scotch whiskey.

On social media, Trump said he will soon remove tariffs and restrictions related to Scotland's ability to work with Kentucky on whiskey and bourbon. A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace says Charles sends his sincere gratitude saying the

move will make an important difference to the British whiskey industry.

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