Texts between the leaders of Canada, France and Norway point to an emerging alliance focused on creating safeguards around AI (software that performs tasks requiring human-like intelligence). The development came as President Trump said in his U.N. address yesterday that the United States would reject any "globalist scheme" to control the technology. In separate U.N. speeches, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a global body to establish AI standards. The item appeared in the What’s News newsletter, which is offered free in readers’ inboxes daily to help them catch up on headlines and understand the news.