New York Mayor Mamdani endorsements test Democrats’ appetite for far-left candidates

2026-06-23T10:02:39.597Z / Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 23 (Reuters) – New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s push to remake the Democratic Party into a democratic socialist powerhouse faces a primary election test on Tuesday. But win or lose, it ​is unlikely to provide an effective blueprint for Democrats taking control of the U.S. Congress in November or the White House in 2028.

The mayor, who shocked the political world with ‌his 2025 election, is backing a slate of fellow democratic socialist candidates running in Tuesday’s New York primaries as they take on establishment Democrats, including one senior Latino in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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This comes on the heels of democratic socialist candidates winning primaries in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles mayor races. Furthermore, a democratic socialist won the Seattle mayor’s race last year.

Mamdani’s efforts to expand the democratic socialist base in the U.S. comes after a decade-long effort that was spurred on by Senator Bernie Sanders’ ​surprisingly popular 2016 presidential campaign and his efforts to nurture a new generation of democratic socialist leaders.

But it is also in response to progressive Democratic voters’ anger at President Donald Trump’s agenda and governing style, and at the ​Biden administration’s backing of Israel’s war against Gaza following a Hamas attack. Israel’s response resulted in more than 73,000 Palestinian deaths.

“Energy on the far right ignites ⁠energy on the far left. Politics is reactive,” said Steve Israel, a former U.S. House member from New York who late in his congressional career ran an operation to elect more Democrats.

DEMOCRATIC PARTY TENSIONS RUN HIGH

For ​months after Mamdani won his 2025 primary election, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries was dogged by reporters asking whether he would endorse his fellow New Yorker. Jeffries did so, but kept the everyone guessing until just 11 ​days before the general election.

Meanwhile, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York remained silent on Mamdani throughout the campaign.

The rub is that Jeffries is positioned to ascend to U.S. House speaker and thus second in line for the presidency if Democrats win November’s midterm elections.

The path to victory does not run through “blue,” solidly Democratic congressional districts. Instead, it’s the “purple” swing districts where Democrats need to beat Republicans.

Nonetheless, if the Mamdani-backed democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier defeats five-term Democratic Representative Adriano Espaillat in ​New York City’s 13th district covering northern Manhattan and the Bronx, it would carry national implications that could complicate Jeffries’ task.

“If a DSA member could knock off the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, that ​could matter,” said Matt Bennett, co-founder of Third Way, a centrist Democratic consultancy.

Even more relevant could be the controversial stances Avila Chevalier has touted in past social media postings, such as calling for abolishing police and border controls and raising ‌questions about ⁠Israel’s right to exist.

“This is precisely the kind of person that they (Republicans) love to use to weaponize against other Democrats” running for office in competitive races, Bennett said.

Steve Israel agreed and said in an interview: “I do worry that the strength of democratic socialists in places like New York and California will be misread as the center of gravity for Democrats across the country” this November or in the 2028 presidential election.

Avila Chevalier has since deleted her social media posts and apologized for some of the language she used.

But in a Thursday interview with a consortium of editors on June 17, Avila Chevalier said: “I think that we just should not have a ​system that allows (migrant) deportation to happen at all,” saying ​it “is rooted in deeply racist ideology.”

In response to ⁠her views, Espaillat said in a June 16 posting on X: “We can’t just sweep things under the rug. Darializa has taken very extreme positions as reflected in her comments on social media not too long ago.” He added, “She is unfit for office and voters are smart enough to see that.”

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS AGAINST DEMOCRATS

A Democratic ​socialist is also attempting to defeat incumbent Democratic Representative Dan Goldman in New York City’s 10th congressional district, while another is vying for the 7th congressional ​district House seat where Democratic ⁠Representative Nydia Velazquez is retiring.

Alex Jacquez, a progressive strategist who was a senior adviser to Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign, said in an interview that focus groups and opinion polls deliver the message that Democratic voters’ level of dissatisfaction with their leaders runs deep.

“That is really where you are seeing the fault lines. Are you willing to take on the wealthy and take on corporations and take on the status quo to deliver results. Or are you not,” ⁠he said of ​the populist message democratic socialists are trying to win on this fall and through the 2028 elections and beyond.

Meantime, outside of deep-blue ​districts of New York, California and other Democratic strongholds, the party is running women with strong military backgrounds in places like Florida and Colorado for example.

“Most of the competitive districts for Democrats are red and pink districts that you can only win as a Democrat in … where more ​moderate stances resonate in races against incumbent Republicans,” Israel said. He added that presidential elections are not won in blue states. “It’s won in seven moderate battleground states.”

Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Michael Learmonth and Alistair Bell

五眼联盟警告：AI加速网攻威胁 中俄等对手可在数月内突破西方网防

2026年6月23日 18:16 / 联合早报

美国总统特朗普周一（6月22日）在白宫签署行政令，要大力发展量子计算科技，并展示所签署文件。 （路透社）

（华盛顿综合电）以美国为首的五眼联盟周一（6月22日）警告，虽然西方国家现阶段在商业人工智能（AI）的发展，以及将人工智能融入军事与情报搜查功能方面，似乎领先中俄等对手，不过这个优势或不会持久。

五眼联盟是由美国、英国、加拿大、新西兰和澳大利亚组成的情报联盟。五国的网络安全负责人在报告中指出，西方的对手可在几个月内成功发动网络攻击，突破政府部门和私人企业的防卫。报告促请西方企业采用人工智能模型来强化防御措施。

五眼联盟承认，前沿人工智能模型（frontier AI models）技术的不断提升，使西方国家在保护自身关键基础设施和发展进攻网络能力方面占据优势。五国的网安负责人判断：“预计前沿人工智能模型将超出当前行业预期，从根本上改变网络攻防能力”。

报告虽然没有点名中国、俄罗斯或其他任何对手，但呼吁西方政府和企业做好准备，应对由现有人工智能模型精心策划并强化的复杂攻击浪潮。

英国《金融时报》报道，西方网安专家已遭遇过由人工智能制造的威胁，这些威胁更加复杂，能够同时攻击更多目标。

上月，谷歌称阻止了一起特定的攻击。那次的网攻利用一个此前未知的漏洞，以人工智能技术转化为攻击。对于这起事件，当局怀疑是俄罗斯的黑客以人工智能模型来调整并创建能够适应不同环境的攻击。他们也注意到中国和朝鲜的黑客组织也曾进行类似的尝试。

一周前，美国下令本土的人工智能公司Anthropic禁止外国人接触公司最先进的人工智能模型，美国称这些模型的出口构成安全风险。Anthropic开发的Claude Mythos模型，能够轻易识破许多常见应用的大量漏洞，一旦落入黑客之手，将沦为他们窃取数据或破坏关键基础设施的新武器。

特朗普签令加速打造量子电脑并防网攻

另一方面，美国总统特朗普周一签署两项行政令，加速打造一台强大的量子电脑（quantum computer）以促进科技研究。同时加大力度，保护美国政府系统应对外来以量子电脑发动的网络攻击。

白宫科技政策办公室主任克拉齐奥斯说，这项量子电脑计划相信最迟在2028年可以实现。

量子电脑利用量子物理定律处理信息，它解决某些复杂问题的速度，比目前的超级电脑快得多。但由于量子电脑可以破解保护电脑免受黑客攻击的加密技术，这也引发了人们对遭遇网攻的担忧。

最新政策将为美国联邦部门采用这项技术打下基础，凸显特朗普政府致力于确保美国在与中国的量子科学竞赛保持优势。

多名美国官员称，行政令还要求各联邦机构制定计划，在未来五年内部署量子传感器和网络。除此之外，美国还将与盟友进行协调，共同保护量子知识产权并加强供应链。

特朗普周一在白宫说，上述两项行政令，将提升美国在这个非常重要的新兴科技领域的全球领导地位。他称：“我们已经（在科技上）遥遥领先，如今，我们将进一步扩大领先优势”。

Trump to pay visit to closely divided Pennsylvania in return to campaigning

2026-06-23 10:01:55 / Reuters

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Medal of Honor ceremony at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 18, 2026. REUTERS/Eric Lee

June 23 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump returns to the campaign trail for the first time in two weeks on Tuesday, visiting politically divided Pennsylvania to deliver a pitch about the revival of the U.S. Rust Belt to voters feeling inflation’s bite.

Trump is due to visit a Mack Trucks

assembly plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, where he’ll shift gears from Iran and pitch his jobs-and-reindustrialization agenda to factory workers who have formed the base of his “Make America Great Again” political movement.

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The U.S. president’s Republican Party is seeking to retain control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. A nearly four-month U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has complicated Trump’s economic message, driving consumer costs up at the fastest rate in three years. The U.S. and Iran are negotiating a potential peace deal in the conflict.

Trump is expected to accentuate the positive, especially a steadily growing U.S. economy, resilient labor market data and the possibility that a future resolution to the war could ease costs.

“Under the President’s leadership, key domestic industries are being revitalized, historic investments are pouring back into communities like Macungie, and families across the country are securing new, high-paying jobs,” said Liz Huston, a White House spokeswoman.

Pennsylvania’s 7th congressional district, spanning the state’s Lehigh Valley, is widely regarded as a toss-up race. The district includes Allentown, the subject of a Billy Joel blue-collar anthem, and its economy has retained a strong manufacturing base. Pennsylvania will also be one of the biggest prizes in 2028’s presidential election.

Freshman Republican Congressman Ryan Mackenzie represents the area, which selected former President Joe Biden over Trump in 2020. The district favored Trump over Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.

In an emailed statement, state Democratic Party chair Eugene DePasquale tied local Republican candidates, including Mackenzie, to what he called a “costly war of choice that caused gas prices to skyrocket” and “cruel healthcare cuts” pushed by Trump.

Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Lincoln Feast.

乌克兰促安理会推动停火 称耐心并非无限

2026年6月23日 18:22 / 联合早报

乌克兰东部顿涅茨克州德鲁日基夫卡一栋住宅楼遭俄罗斯无人机击中后起火，附近居民站在阳台上查看火势。 （路透社）

（基辅/莫斯科综合电）乌克兰驻联合国大使梅利尼克周一（6月22日）警告，如果联合国安理会继续观望，不尽快通过决议敦促俄乌全面及无条件停火，乌克兰可能重新考虑现有的停火提议。

俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫周二称，俄罗斯准备与乌克兰重启和平谈判，从中断的地方继续进行。

他对媒体说：“我们随时准备与基辅对话，就像我们一直以来所做的那样。”他指的是2022年战争爆发后不久在伊斯坦布尔举行的会谈，以及2025年重启的会谈。

梅利尼克周一说：“乌克兰随时准备同俄罗斯直接谈判，以根据《联合国宪章》实现公正而持久的和平，但我们的耐心不是无限的。”

他强调，乌克兰提议在现有战线基础上停火，已是“极大的让步”。他也说，乌克兰近期攻势已改变战场动态，俄罗斯约40%的炼油设施已受损。

路透社报道，乌克兰加大对俄能源基础设施、海事物流和供应线路的打击，已使俄燃油供应紧张从被吞并的克里米亚扩散至东部地区，并进一步蔓延到靠近哈萨克斯坦边境的西南西伯利亚鄂木斯克州。鄂木斯克州政府已限制汽油和柴油销售，以防加油站出现恐慌性抢购和投机行为。

据俄媒报道，俄罗斯正在考虑进口燃料并提供补贴来控制价格，以缓解乌军袭击炼油厂造成的汽油和柴油供应中断问题。

与此同时，俄罗斯继续对乌克兰发动空袭。乌克兰地方官员说，俄军星期一连夜袭击苏梅、扎波罗热和哈尔科夫等地，造成六人受伤；首都基辅也一度发布空袭警报，要求居民寻找掩护。

Zohran Mamdani’s influence over Democrats put to the test, and other things to watch in Tuesday’s elections

2026-06-23T09:00:26.012Z / CNN

New York’s primaries on Tuesday will test just how influential Mayor Zohran Mamdani is with voters six months into his tenure and offer a preview of the ideological battles to come as Democrats look ahead to the 2028 presidential primary.

The democratic socialist’s decision to endorse candidates in three House races — including against Democratic incumbents in two of them — has raised the stakes in contests for seats the party is all but certain to retain in November.

Those races are among several closely watched primaries in New York. They come on the same day as primaries in Maryland and Utah, and primary runoffs in South Carolina that include a Republican race for governor.

Here are Tuesday’s primaries to watch:

Mamdani endorsed former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander against 10th District Rep. Dan Goldman. Lander was one of the candidates Mamdani defeated in the mayoral race last year, but they were allied against Andrew Cuomo in the primary. He ultimately became an important validator for Mamdani with Jewish voters in the general election, though Lander didn’t get a City Hall job like originally expected.

He backed Darializa Avila Chevalier, an educator and immigrant rights’ activist, against Rep. Adriano Espaillat in the 13th District.

In the 7th District, where 17-term Rep. Nydia Velázquez is retiring, Mamdani is supporting Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, who is taking on Velázquez’s preferred replacement, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

These contests are part of a broader ideological battle being waged within the party — and in recent weeks, Mamdani’s side has had the national momentum.

A year after Mamdani and and fellow democratic socialist Katie Wilson in Seattle won mayors’ races, at least two more of the United States’ biggest cities could elect democratic socialists.

Earlier this month, city councilwoman Janeese Lewis George won the Democratic primary to become the next mayor of Washington, DC, all but assuring she will win in November in the overwhelmingly blue city. Primary voters in Los Angeles also chose a democratic socialist city councilwoman, Nithya Raman, to take on incumbent Mayor Karen Bass this fall.

Both Valdez and Avila Chevalier, like Mamdani, are democratic socialists. The mayor’s decision to back Avila Chevalier against Espaillat, the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, has particularly rankled Latino leaders in New York City as well as Jewish leaders who have noted Avila Chevalier’s attendance at a widely condemned pro-Palestinian rally the day after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.

But it all comes as the 2028 Democratic primary looms — with candidates likely to enter the protracted battle over what the party’s future should look like in a post-Trump political era as soon as this year’s midterm elections conclude.

At a rally last week with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the congressional candidates both are backing, Mamdani said that the Democratic Party for too long “has seen its job as explaining why we cannot instead of showing how we can, and that old way of thinking will lose on Tuesday. And frankly, it will lose in South Carolina and New Hampshire. It will fall short of 270 electoral votes, because the party of the past will not be what leads us into the future.”

“When does the race for 2028 begin?” he added. “It starts now. It starts on Tuesday.”

He also tore into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, suggesting AIPAC was part of a group of “monsters” that include “those who fund television ads that blanket the airwaves with misleading and bad faith attacks.” His reference to “monsters” drew criticism from some Jewish community leaders who said his language was antisemitic. Mamdani defended what he said when pressed on the subject Monday.

Trump did something rather transparent on Friday.

Facing the prospect of one of his endorsed candidates for governor losing a primary for the third time this month, Trump decided to just endorse the other remaining candidate, too.

Despite having Trump’s endorsement, Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette only narrowly led state Attorney General Alan Wilson in the primary two weeks ago, 29%-26%. Wilson is considered a real threat to beat her on Tuesday, and now Trump has backed him as well.

Trump has played games like this with his endorsements before. He endorsed “Eric” in the 2022 Missouri Senate primary, when two top candidates shared that name. (One of them is now-Sen. Eric Schmitt.) And last year, he endorsed business executive Karrin Taylor Robson but then also endorsed Rep. Andy Biggs when Biggs later joined the race. (Robson later dropped out.)

Trump’s second endorsement means he’ll be able to claim he endorsed whoever wins. But if Wilson wins by a decent margin, it’ll be pretty clear Trump was covering his backside — and that his endorsement of Evette failed, just like his endorsement of Rep. Randy Feenstra did in Iowa and just like his backing of Lt. Gov. Burt Jones did in Georgia last week.

But that’s not the only test of Trump’s endorsement Tuesday.

We’ll also see a significant one in Rep. Elise Stefanik’s district. There, Trump-backed businessman Anthony Constantino is facing off against Assemblymember Robert Smullen, who has the backing of the state Republican Party.

Earlier this month, we saw a Democratic billionaire lose his second big campaign despite spending gobs of his own money. Six years after his failed bid for the Democrats’ presidential nomination, Tom Steyer spent $216 million to finish third in the open primary for California governor.

But depending on how things shake out Tuesday, there could be a Democratic billionaire with an even worse record.

That could be former Rep. David Trone, who is challenging Rep. April McClain Delaney in one of the most expensive primaries of 2026. Trone has self-funded more than $25 million. McClain Delaney has also spent millions of her own money.

Trone already holds two of the top 10 spots when it comes to how much of his own money he’s spent per vote in failed campaigns, including a 2016 run for Congress ($379 per vote) and a 2024 run for Senate (more than $200 per vote).

On Tuesday, he’ll either rejoin Congress or make it a third campaign in which he’s lit part of his own fortune on fire.

Trump has pardoned a lot of people — and especially a lot of political allies.

And on Tuesday, one of them could win a primary and be set to join Congress.

Trump pardoned then-state Rep. Phil Lyman in 2020 for illegally riding an all-terrain vehicle in a closed Utah canyon. It was part of a protest against the federal Bureau of Land Management. (Trump has also pardoned others who committed more series crimes while protesting BLM out west.)

Lyman, who lost to Gov. Spencer Cox by eight points in a 2024 primary, is now challenging Rep. Celeste Maloy, a somewhat moderate Republican, in a primary.

If he wins, he’ll be a heavy favorite to join Congress.

A Kennedy family member, a Trump critic, an AI foe and an establishment pick square off

The Democratic primary in the deep-blue, Manhattan-based 12th District is awash with big names — including a Kennedy family scion, a prominent anti-Trump former Republican and two state lawmakers, one of whom is the subject of millions in advertising spending linked to artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency forces.

With a fractured field that includes eight candidates, the outcome might not do much to settle the ideological divisions within the Democratic Party. But, with several controversial contenders, it could offer some indication of what voters care about most.

Assemblyman Micah Lasher is the choice of retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, and he’s also backed by Gov. Kathy Hochul and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in one of the nation’s richest congressional districts.

Another state assemblyman, Alex Bores, is a former Palantir employee who became an enemy of artificial intelligence companies after he co-sponsored a 2025 New York artificial intelligence safety law.

George Conway, once a prominent GOP attorney who emerged as a prominent and frequently televised critic of Trump while his ex-wife, Kellyanne Conway, worked in the president’s White House, is making his first run for office. His candidacy is a test, nearly two years after former Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned with former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, of whether Democratic voters have any interest in aligning with former Republicans who sided with the party not out of ideological alignment but distaste for the president.

The 33-year-old Jack Schlossberg is the grandson of former President John F. Kennedy and the son of Caroline Kennedy. He is seeking to become the latest in a long line of Kennedy family members — and if he wins, he would be the only one currently in elected office.

The last Kennedy to win an election was former US Rep. Joe Kennedy III in 2018; he lost a run for a Senate seat in Massachusetts two years later. However, three family members — including Schlossberg’s mother — were ambassadors or envoys during former President Joe Biden’s administration, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary.

乌克兰促安理会推动停火 称耐心并非无限

2026年6月23日 18:22 / 联合早报

乌克兰东部顿涅茨克州德鲁日基夫卡一栋住宅楼遭俄罗斯无人机击中后起火，附近居民站在阳台上查看火势。 （路透社）

（基辅/莫斯科综合电）乌克兰驻联合国大使梅利尼克周一（6月22日）警告，如果联合国安理会继续观望，不尽快通过决议敦促俄乌全面及无条件停火，乌克兰可能重新考虑现有的停火提议。

俄罗斯外长拉夫罗夫周二称，俄罗斯准备与乌克兰重启和平谈判，从中断的地方继续进行。

他对媒体说：“我们随时准备与基辅对话，就像我们一直以来所做的那样。”他指的是2022年战争爆发后不久在伊斯坦布尔举行的会谈，以及2025年重启的会谈。

梅利尼克周一说：“乌克兰随时准备同俄罗斯直接谈判，以根据《联合国宪章》实现公正而持久的和平，但我们的耐心不是无限的。”

他强调，乌克兰提议在现有战线基础上停火，已是“极大的让步”。他也说，乌克兰近期攻势已改变战场动态，俄罗斯约40%的炼油设施已受损。

路透社报道，乌克兰加大对俄能源基础设施、海事物流和供应线路的打击，已使俄燃油供应紧张从被吞并的克里米亚扩散至东部地区，并进一步蔓延到靠近哈萨克斯坦边境的西南西伯利亚鄂木斯克州。鄂木斯克州政府已限制汽油和柴油销售，以防加油站出现恐慌性抢购和投机行为。

据俄媒报道，俄罗斯正在考虑进口燃料并提供补贴来控制价格，以缓解乌军袭击炼油厂造成的汽油和柴油供应中断问题。

与此同时，俄罗斯继续对乌克兰发动空袭。乌克兰地方官员说，俄军星期一连夜袭击苏梅、扎波罗热和哈尔科夫等地，造成六人受伤；首都基辅也一度发布空袭警报，要求居民寻找掩护。

中国在全球最快超级电脑排行榜超越美国荣登榜首

2026年6月23日 18:38 / 联合早报

中国在全球最快超级电脑排行榜超越美国荣登榜首。 （路透社档案照片）

中国在全球最快超级电脑排行榜超越美国荣登榜首，但分析认为这或许更多反映中国想要在计算系统领域展现自主能力，而非在全球人工智能竞赛中的地位。

据路透社报道，位于中国国家超级计算深圳中心的灵晟（LineShine）系统采用国产晶片，并在2026年6月的TOP500全球超级电脑排名中，击败此前的冠军“埃尔卡皮坦”（El Capitan），排名第一。

“埃尔卡皮坦”是位于劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室的超级电脑，美国政府用这台超级电脑进行核武器库研发和维护工作。

接受路透社访问的科技和政策专家认为，由于近年来在计算行业出现的变化，以及榜单编制方法，上述排名并不意味着中国拥有世界上速度最快的人工智能（AI）任务用途电脑。灵晟在一项旨在模拟更类似于AI的计算工作基准测试中，排名第四。

专家认为，中国在榜单上胜出，更有可能表明中国希望自身晶片设计成果获得认可，这与近年来的情况有所不同。

中国于2010年首次登上TOP500榜首，此后与美国和日本交替领先，直到2023年。中国在2023年暂停提交以便参加TOP500排名。

专注于超级计算机研究的公司Intersect360 Research首席执行官斯内尔（Addison Snell）说：“我对它排名第一并不感到意外。让我感到意外的是，他们提交了这套系统，并想因此获得认可。”

根据连同排名结果发布的详细信息，灵晟系统并未包含任何先进的人工智能晶片，这可能是因为制造这些晶片的工具仍然受到美国出口管制。

加州大学全球冲突与合作研究所高级研究员古德里奇（Jimmy Goodrich）说：“中国希望我们忽略细节，并借此让世界相信，出口管制毫无用处。”

维基百科不让AI直接参与内容编辑

2026年6月23日 18:28 / 联合早报

维基百科联合创办人威尔斯。 （档案照片）

（伦敦讯）维基百科联合创办人威尔斯说，维基百科对人工智能（AI）的信任不足，因此不会让人工智能直接参与平台的编辑工作。

威尔斯（Jimmy Wales）周一（6月22日）接受法新社采访说，虽然人工智能产生的“幻觉”问题，在新一代人工智能模型推出后已经减少了，但他认为情况仍“非常非常糟糕”。所谓的幻觉，指的是人工智能模型根据用户给定的输入，生成一个或多个包含不准确、误导性或捏造信息的输出。

不过威尔斯表示，人工智能代理（AI agents）仍能发挥功能，它在通知维基百科数百万名编辑人员注意收集一些特殊新闻方面，还是可以起到作用。

整体而言，维基百科就是不会让人工智能直接参与编辑工作。威尔斯说：“我们不会让它直接编辑，因为你就是没有办法真正信任它”。

维基百科不让AI直接参与内容编辑

2026年6月23日 18:28 / 联合早报

维基百科联合创办人威尔斯。 （档案照片）

（伦敦讯）维基百科联合创办人威尔斯说，维基百科对人工智能（AI）的信任不足，因此不会让人工智能直接参与平台的编辑工作。

威尔斯（Jimmy Wales）周一（6月22日）接受法新社采访说，虽然人工智能产生的“幻觉”问题，在新一代人工智能模型推出后已经减少了，但他认为情况仍“非常非常糟糕”。所谓的幻觉，指的是人工智能模型根据用户给定的输入，生成一个或多个包含不准确、误导性或捏造信息的输出。

不过威尔斯表示，人工智能代理（AI agents）仍能发挥功能，它在通知维基百科数百万名编辑人员注意收集一些特殊新闻方面，还是可以起到作用。

整体而言，维基百科就是不会让人工智能直接参与编辑工作。威尔斯说：“我们不会让它直接编辑，因为你就是没有办法真正信任它”。

Trump gets major win against China in African rare earth minerals race

June 23, 2026 6:00am EDT / Fox News

State Department calls the acquisition a ‘flagship US investment’ that will catalyze further deals in the DRC

By Paul Tilsley

US companies looking to put pressure on China’s rare earth elements dominance

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JOHANNESBURG — In what’s being hailed as a major win for the Trump administration against Chinese domination of the rare earth minerals market, the U.S. has supported an American company, Virtus Minerals, in developing two major mines producing cobalt and copper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

This is claimed to be the first U.S. rare earth minerals acquisition in the African nation since President Donald Trump announced the Washington Accord last December.

Historically, China has been the heavy lifter of these metals. The Strategic Studies Institute reported that 80% of the world’s cobalt is produced in the DRC — and 80% of that is controlled by China. Cobalt, used in a wide range of applications, from electric cars and mobile phones to military jets, is on the U.S. government’s list of critical minerals. Copper, also on the list, has traditional uses such as piping for plumbing, but is also needed in electronics and the automotive industry.

President Donald Trump attends a signing ceremony with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington on Dec. 4, 2025.(Evan Vucci/AP)

During December’s signing at the White House, Trump made clear the administration’s fight to curb Chinese domination of minerals and help American mining companies make a major impact in the DRC. “A great day for Africa, a great day for the world,” Trump said. The accord also aims to bring an end to fighting between the DRC and Rwandan-backed forces,although the Rwandan-supported M23 rebel group have continued their hostile infiltration in the Eastern DRC.

American mining company Virtus is, with U.S. support, claiming to be “the first U.S.-owned operator back in the DRC in more than a decade”, with its investment in Chemaf, a local cobalt and copper producer with two mining operations, one, Étoile, in Lubumbashi and Mutoshi, in Kolwezi. Together it’s planned the mines will produce a combined 75,000 tonnes of copper, and 20,000 tonnes of cobalt a year. The processing plants are currently under development and will come online next year.

Virtus Minerals CEO and Chamaf Chairman. Phillip Braun, the Chargé d’Affaires U.S. Embassy Kinshasa Ian J. McCary, and Chemaf Managing Director Sooryanarayanan Prabhakaran cutting the ribbon of the new mine.(Virtus Minerals / Chemaf)

The minerals will ultimately be exported to the west through the Lobito Corridor to a port in Angola. Lobito is the rail route the U.S. has backed with a $5 billion investment commitment, with, according to a Virtus statement, “the aim of obtaining a secure, auditable copper and cobalt supply chain for the U.S. and its allies.”

THE WEST STILL DOESN’T GRASP THE DANGER OF CHINA’S RARE EARTH ENDGAME

Frans Cronje, president of the Washington-based Yorktown Foundation for Freedom, says the Virtus projects are significant because they show the administration is seriously trying to change the balance in a minerals battle with China.

He told Fox News Digital, “This development signals a more assertive United States effort to compete with China for access to Africa’s critical mineral base, particularly in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where cobalt and copper are strategically vital to global energy and defense supply chains.”

The U.S. and DRC flags fly outside Chemaf’s site in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Virtus Minerals / Chemaf)

Cronje added, “China has built deep structural dominance across much of Africa’s resource sector over the past two decades, but U.S.-backed initiatives such as this suggest a shift towards more direct engagement, rather than relying on Chinese-controlled supply routes. This matters because Africa’s vast resource endowment, combined with its geostrategic position along key Atlantic and Indian Ocean corridors, makes it central to future global economic and security competition.”

A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital,”President Trump and Secretary Rubio remain firmly committed to supporting U.S. companies that seek to do business in the DRC.”

AFRICAN WAR-TORN NATION INVOKES TRUMP ‘GOLDEN AGE’ FOR MINERALS DEAL IN EXCHANGE FOR BOOTING VIOLENT REBELS

Chemaf’s site in Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.(Virtus Minerals / Chemaf)

“The United States government fully supports the efforts of Virtus Minerals,” the spokesperson continued.”This acquisition serves as an initial flagship U.S. investment in the DRC,and sends a clear signal that the U.S. private sector interest is real and will catalyze further investment in alignment with the U.S.-DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement, which positions the DRC to play an integral role in the Trump Administration’s global efforts to secure critical mineral supply chains.”

The spokesperson added that “increased U.S. investment will create quality jobs for American and Congolese workers, foster skills development and support local communities that have long been exploited by the opaque systems constructed and perpetuated by adversarial foreign actors who have controlled the DRC’s critical minerals sector.”

Cobalt and Copper mined from Chemaf’s Etoile site in Lubumbashi, DRC.(Virtus Minerals / Chemaf)

Virtus holds 56 mining licenses in total in the DRC.Phillip Braun, Virtus Minerals CEO and Chemaf chairman, told Fox News Digital, “Our first goal is to bring the Étoile and Mutoshi plants up to full production. From there, we will explore everything Chemaf’s 56 mining permits have to offer — copper, cobalt and other metals like tungsten.”

“None of this would be possible,” Braun added, “without the strong partnership now growing between the United States and the DRC, and the support of leaders in both countries who saw what was possible. We look forward to bringing our two nations closer by building a steady, trusted supply of the minerals we depend on and supporting other American companies that want to invest in the DRC any way we can.”

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“A more active U.S. presence in these supply chains,” Cronje continued, “would mark a significant rebalancing of influence on the continent, with implications not only for resource access but for broader geopolitical alignment in regions that are becoming increasingly contested.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the DRC government for comment, but did not receive a response.

Paul Tilsley is a veteran correspondent who has reported from four continents for more than three decades. Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, he can be followed on X @paultilsley.