The tech giant says calls will now use AI-enhanced audio to reduce background noise and improve voice clarity, even when speaking to someone on a landline or older device.

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An upcoming summit in Budapest between President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been canceled, following a Monday phone call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  A White House official who spoke to POLITICO on the condition of anonymity stated that Rubio and Lavrov “had a productive call” and that the proposed in-person meeting between the secretary and foreign minister was not necessary as a result.  The official also stated that Trump had no plans to meet with Putin after the two leaders spoke by phone for two hours Thursday. Lavrov had expressed reservations about the follow-up to August’s summit in Alaska after Poland threatened to execute the International Criminal Court’s active arrest warrant if Putin flew inside its airspace. Lavrov said Tuesday that the Russians were committed to fighting despite Trump’s repeated attempts to bring the war to an end.  “If we just stop, it means forgetting the root causes of this conflict, which the American administration clearly understood,” Lavrov complained. “I am referring to ensuring Ukraine’s nonaligned, nonnuclear status, which implies refraining from any attempts to draw it into NATO.” The post Trump and Putin Cancel Meeting in Budapest appeared first on The American Conservative.

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Explosions occurred at oil refineries in Romania and Hungary on the evening of Oct. 20, both of which have links to Russia, local media reported on Oct. 21. Russian oil remains a key source of revenue for Moscow's war effort in Ukraine. Despite the European Union's push to fully phase out Russian energy, several member states continue to receive supplies. A midday explosion occurred at the Petrotel-Lukoil refinery in Ploiesti, southern Romania, on Oct. 20. The facility, owned by a subsidiary of Lukoil, one of Russia's largest privately owned oil and gas companies, had reportedly been offline since Oct. 17 due to a planned technical inspection, according to Hungarian newspaper Vilaggazdasag.

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