Buying a home in spring 2023 means both higher interest rates and stiff competition.

The Wall Street Journal is your money-reafing podcast is breaking it all down,

and a special weekly series under contract. You're a guide to home buying.

New episodes drop each Friday. Follow your money-reafing everywhere you listen to podcasts.

The U.S. takes one small step toward regulating AI chatbots.

Plus, South Korea investigates potential ease-dropping by Washington.

And Benjamin Netanyahu decides not to fire his defense minister after all.

Netanyahu seems to have been looking for a way to gracefully back down from this decision

over the past several days after it sparked so much public anger.

Look at the ongoing turmoil in Israel. It is Tuesday, April 11th.

I'm Peter Grannitz, filling in for Luke Vargas with the Wall Street Journal.

And here's the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories moving your world today.

The South Korean government is investigating the circumstances around a leak of highly-classified

U.S. intelligence documents. The documents, viewed by the Wall Street Journal,

include the purported details of an intercepted conversation between top eights to South Korea's

president, in which the AIDs discuss selling ammunition to the United States. The journal's

Jayang Sun says the leak shows potential ease-dropping by the United States on its closest allies,

including South Korea. That can be especially problematic for the U.S.

as it needs to close cooperation of its allies and navigating everything from the war in Ukraine

to measures to counter China's rise into a bigger superpower.

Also, the timing of the recent document leak might be especially bad for South Korea and the U.S.

as it comes right as the two countries' presidents are scheduled to meet in a state visit later this month.

...