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How AI is deciding your health insurance claims -- Evidence suggests that insurance companies use AI to delay or limit health care that patients need.

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A fragile opening for peace on the Korean Peninsula -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung ordered the suspension of loudspeaker broadcasts aimed at North Korea from the border zone. And North Korea then responded in kind.

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