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Why are AI leaders urging a slowdown of powerful model development?
Live from NVR News in Washington, I'm Lindy Kenyon. The leaders of three rival artificial intelligence companies are issuing a stark warning that the technology is advancing faster than safety protections and regulations can keep up. They're backing calls for slowdown. Though it remains unclear who would set the rules or enforce them. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports.
The CEO of Anthropic is urging AI companies to slow the development of the most powerful models. The leaders of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and SpaceX AI are backing the call. Sarah Krebs is a technology policy expert at Cornell University. She says the companies could benefit from helping shape any new rules, but their unusual agreement is difficult to dismiss.
When all of those companies in the lead are speaking with one voice and are competitors with each other, there might also be something going on.
How might the GOP midterm convention affect Republican voter enthusiasm and election polls?
Krep says Congress could impose regulations, but the technology may evolve faster than lawmakers can respond. Windsor Johnston and PR News.
President Trump has said he's worried about seeding America's edge over China when it comes to AI. Republicans held their first hour ever uh GOP midterm convention last week in Dallas, and PR's moralizing says there was a clear reason for the convention. The purpose was to boost
enthusiasm among core Republican voters, the MAGA base, who polls show are less enthusiastic about turning out in this election than democrats are. So we're gonna watch the polls to see see if they start changing after this convention. In House and Senate races and Trump's overall approval ratings, which are pretty low, Quinipiac has them last week at thirty three percent.
Lyerson says Republicans gave a surprisingly tepid reaction to the president's pledge to give each American adult five thousand dollars if Republicans win in November. It would add more than a trillion dollars to the national debt. Investors on Wall Street are awaiting a critical decision from the Federal Reserve on interest rates this week.
What are the Federal Reserve’s considerations for a potential interest‑rate hike amid inflation and energy costs?
As NPR's Raphael Nam reports, markets are pricing in the prospect of a rate hike as inflation remains stubborn.
The Fed has held rates steady throughout the year even though inflation has remained fairly high. But the rising energy cost because of the war with Iran now has most investors expecting a rate hike when policymakers announced their decision on Wednesday. But it's not a done deal. The Fed has been fairly divided, and some economists believe the Fed may choose instead to keep waiting. A rate hike would come with the Midterm elections coming up in November, and it would be the first under Chair Kevin Wars, who was nominated by President Trump in the hopes that he would lead the Fed into lowering rates and not raising them, Rafael Num in PR News.
The president repeatedly pressed the previous chairman to lower interest rates. You're listening to NPR. Archaeologists in Britain are in a race against time trying to finish digging at an ancient site threatened by global warming.
Why is the Flag Fen Bronze‑Age site in Britain under urgent archaeological excavation?
Vicky Barker reports from London.
Flag Fen sits in a Bronze Age landscape in eastern England that includes the remains of a mysterious timber causeway and platform made thirty five hundred years ago, one of the few of its kind ever found. But the ancient peat bog in which the causeway sits is drying out in an ever hotter Britain, and recent test digs have confirmed that the timber and other ancient organic remains are deteriorating at an alarming rate. Now local heritage organizations have been given a million dollar grant so archaeologists can accelerate their work excavating and preserving the site and just possibly unpicking just why those ancient Britons built it. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. President Trump's
childhood home has sold for nearly two million dollars. The president lived in that Tudor style home in Queens, New York. Until he was four years old. The family has not owned that five bedroom, three bathroom house for years, and it has changed hands several times since the Trump family lived there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
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Why are AI leaders urging a slowdown of powerful model development?
0:01–1:00
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How might the GOP midterm convention affect Republican voter enthusiasm and election polls?
1:00–2:06
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What are the Federal Reserve’s considerations for a potential interest‑rate hike amid inflation and energy costs?
2:06–3:08
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Why is the Flag Fen Bronze‑Age site in Britain under urgent archaeological excavation?
3:08–4:23
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What details are known about the sale of President Trump’s childhood home?
4:23–4:53