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Uruguay's president to pay state visit

Uruguay's President Luis Alberto Lacalle Pou will pay a five-day state visit to China starting from Monday, China's Foreign Ministry said. Lacalle Pou, a former senator, was elected his country's president in November 2019 and sworn in on March 1,2020. This year China and Uruguay celebrate the 35th anniversary of their establishing diplomatic relations. The value of trade between the two has risen 50 percent over the past five years, and it was worth $7.44 billion last year, a 60-fold increase compared with 35 years ago, China's ambassador to Uruguay Huang Yazhong said. China has been the largest trading partner and export market for Uruguay 11 years in a row, Huang said.

UNITED STATES

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI said on Friday it has pushed out its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman after a review found he was "not consistently candid in his communications" with the board of directors. In the year since Altman catapulted ChatGPT to global fame, he has become Silicon Valley's sought-after voice on the promise and potential dangers of artificial intelligence. Mira Murati, Open-AI's chief technology officer, will take over as interim CEO effective immediately, while it searches for a permanent replacement. A day after the decision, Altman was discussing a possible return to the company behind the ChatGPT bot even as he considers launching a new artificial intelligence venture. The possibilities of a return or a restart for Altman, seen by many as the face of generative AI, are in flux, said the source.

Agencies - China Daily