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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday evening that the U.S. and China have agreed to extend their trade truce, shortly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping arrived in Washington for two days of meetings. But the extension is just two months — setting up another deadline for early next year. Under the initial arrangement, which President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping hammered out last October in Busan, South Korea, both sides rolled back restrictions on critical minerals and high-tech exports that had threatened to cripple global supply chains. They also extended a pause on their triple-digit tariffs. The truce was set to expire Nov. 10. “That is going to be extended until January 10 to give us more time to see what we can do on the economic front,” Bessent said in an interview on “Special Report” with Bret Baier, adding that both countries are still trying to hash out a potentially larger deal. “I don’t know whether a bigger deal can be done. I don’t know whether we will just roll the current deal,” Bessent added. Bessent’s comments came shortly after Xi landed on U.S. soil at Joint Base Andrews, where Trump met him on the tarmac. The pair are set to meet at the White House Thursday followed by a state dinner. The visit is Xi’s first to the U.S. in over a decade. Bessent and his Chinese counterpart, Vice Premier He Lifeng, met at the World Bank in Washington earlier Wednesday, where the pair talked about expanding the truce, Bessent said. Bessent, He and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer also met in New York on Sunday. In addition to the extension of the trade stalemate, Bessent teased further announcements from Xi’s visit. “We’re going to see probably some announcements of maybe financial services, ag purchases,” he said. “There’s quite a bit going on here.” When the two leaders met in May, China agreed to buy at least $17 billion in U.S. farm products, excluding soybeans, each year through 2028. But Beijing is not on track to meet its prorated target for 2026. Beijing last year also pledged to buy 12 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans in the last two months of 2025, plus an additional 25 million tons each year from 2026 to 2028. It did not meet its 2025 soybean target. “There are some deliverables that have not been perfect on the Chinese side, so we also want to see, now that we’ve sat down and told them our expectations, to see if over the coming months they can be a bit more fulsome in enacting the agreement,” Bessent said. “What we want to ensure is that they’re meeting their obligations,” he continued, adding that Beijing is a “little behind schedule” on its non-soybean ag purchases. “We are encouraging them to pick those up.” Craig Singleton, a former national security official with deep expertise on U.S.-China relations, pointed out that the short extension is likely a reflection of Washington’s angst over China living up to its commitments. “Beijing wanted a much longer period of predictability, while Washington has preserved an early opportunity to test Chinese performance and reassess its leverage,” Singleton said. “By January, the administration should know whether China actually delivered on its agricultural commitments.” “This is less about buying two months of calm than making China earn the next extension,” he added. Phelim Kine contributed to this report.

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence models breached several Australian government websites earlier this year, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese disclosed Wednesday. It’s the first publicly reported case of AI models autonomously hacking into government systems. There have been widespread calls from government officials and AI companies themselves for increased controls on AI frontier labs that have reported a series of incidents where they’ve lost control of their models. “An artificial intelligence agent has infiltrated an Australian government website,” Albanese told reporters Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Albanese said that the incident involved an “OpenAI agent gaining unauthorized access” in June to the Australian government’s Medicare statistics reporting portal, which is used to collect data on Medicare spending. While Albanese stressed that “no personal information is believed to have been accessed,” the agents did breach both public and non-public files on the site. Albanese said that the Australian Signals Directorate was leading the nation’s investigation into the breach, and is looking into whether more websites had been compromised. Spokespeople for ASD and for the Australian Cyber Security Centre within ASD did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Drew Pusateri, a spokesperson for OpenAI, said in a statement provided that the company notified the Australian government of the breach on Sept. 10 after discovering the incident in August. Pusateri noted that OpenAI “identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation.” “In the course of that, our models took actions we did not intend,” Pusateri added. The prime minister told reporters that this notification was initially sent by OpenAI to a “public mailbox,” and it took five days before the email was reported to the relevant Australian authorities. “Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident,” Albanese said. “I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.” Albanese announced the incident as Altman was appearing before the U.N. Security Council to discuss AI security, and specifically next steps nations should take to address autonomous attacks carried out by AI models. OpenAI’s models earlier this year escaped testing environments, spent four days loose online, and then breached AI developer platform Hugging Face. Following this disclosure, OpenAI began investigating whether its models had carried out any other cyberattacks during testing, and the breaches of Australian websites were discovered during the investigation. “Our overall review is ongoing, and we remain committed to transparency about these issues and to sharing what we learn as that work continues,” Pusateri said. Albanese announced that his administration is taking a series of steps to respond to the breach, including establishing a task force to review the incident; referring the incident to the Australian Parliament’s Joint Select Committee on AI; and seeking advice on whether to refer the incident to Australian Federal Police. OpenAI is not the only AI frontier lab to be grappling with control of its models. Following the Hugging Face incident, Anthropic also carried out a review of its models, and in July disclosed three incidents of its models carrying out autonomous cyberattacks during testing. Meta last month published evidence of its models carrying out attacks as well. “As this process becomes more automated, the pace of AI progress could accelerate rapidly,” Altman testified to the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. “This moment calls for extreme care.” Ryan Heath contributed to this report.

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