Anthropic urges a global pause in AI development.

Plus, the U.S. sanctions Cuba's president as Washington further tightens the screws on Havana,

and Taiwan's opposition leader tours America promoting peace with Beijing.

Her visit will have some impact potentially on U.S.-China relations,

basically how her close ties with Xi is going to play out in the U.S.

And how she performs during this visit could have implications for that relations.

It's Friday, June 5th.

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal,

and here is the AM edition of What's News,

the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

We begin with breaking news in Washington.

After a 19-hour session,

the Senate has passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill

to fund Border Patrol and

ICE through the end of President Trump's second term without reining in a controversial

anti-weaponization fund. On this vote, the aza 52, the nays are 47. This bill as amended is passed.

Lawmakers from both parties had initially objected to the fund over concerns

that taxpayer money could be used to compensate Trump's allies and reward those who assaulted

police officers on January 6th. But Republican senators eventually stop short of using their

political leverage to kill the fund with only Alaska's Lisa Murkowski joining

Democrats to vote against the bill. The House is expected to take up the immigration enforcement

measure next week. Anthropic is calling on top AI labs to consider slowing down their development,

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