The two major powers vied to push their agendas in Asia at a time of simmering tension over a U.S. trade tariffs offensive.

There is a “high probability” that US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet this year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday.

Rubio is the second senior Trump official in recent months to fall victim to AI voice impersonation, following a May incident involving Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met counterparts in Southeast Asia during his first visit to the region since taking office.

An AI imposter is making calls to officials. Who is the AI imposter impersonating? United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials,” Axelrod wrote on X. “This is the new world in which we live, and we’d better figure out how to defend against it because of its implications for our democracy and the world,” he wrote on X.

A person or people imitating the secretary of state used artificial intelligence to send text and voice messages to foreign diplomats and U.S. officials, the department said in a cable to employees.

US secretary of state Marco Rubio is set to meet Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday in Malaysia, on the sidelines of the Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting, as tensions between Washington and Moscow deepen over the conflict in Ukraine.