Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Saturday, the 28th of February. President Trump orders US government agencies to stop doing business with Anthropic after the firm said it won't allow its AI model to be used for mass domestic surveillance or making fully autonomous weapons.
The former US President Bill Clinton tells a congressional committee he did nothing wrong during his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein. And the American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka has died aged 86.
I wrote a song, a rock and roll song called Mr. Moon. I played it in the school auditorium. The response from the kids was phenomenal. I realized then I liked the attention.
Also in the podcast, Argentina's President Javier Millet tries to scrap laws protecting glaciers from the mining industry. And the English Premier League is to launch its first direct-to-customer streaming platform next season. Should there be restrictions on how artificial intelligence is deployed on the battlefield?
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Chapter 2: What led President Trump to blacklist Anthropic?
And Iran's foreign minister, their top negotiator, Abbas Arachi, said that these had been the most serious, the longest negotiations he'd ever had with the Americans. So from those two sides, you had the real sense that there had been movement. But there was silence from the two American envoys, which led many of us to ask, well, was progress really made? And then suddenly...
The Omani foreign minister races to Washington for a meeting with the U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance. And he's given a rare interview to CBS News to send a message. And what is it? We're making significant progress. You repeated that again. But he also gave more details, interestingly, about the kind of concessions he says Iran is willing to make for the very first time.
For example, that it will not accumulate uranium. So no more stockpiling. of enriched uranium. He offered other details as well, but he had a caveat. He emphasised we need more time, a bit more time, as he put it, to make a deal. But Ollie, the message we've been getting from President Trump is that his clock is counting down.
So will the Amani foreign minister's meeting with the US vice president make any difference? It's interesting why did he go to see J.D. Vance? J.D. Vance in recent days said there's no way that we're going to get bogged down in a war of many years. He's seen as the person close to President Trump who's really close to the base, the Make America Great Again base who don't want another war.
So perhaps the Omani foreign minister felt he's the person I needed to make the argument to, that the way to avoid a war is to really double down and continue to focus on diplomacy. That while President Trump has a penchant for the short, sharp, easy, successful deals, this deal is going to take, well, it could take a lot more time.
And yet, at the same time, US personnel being told to leave the region. So the threat definitely hasn't gone away.
Yeah.
Every week for many weeks, you get more of this drumbeat. So today, more countries, more governments urge their citizens to leave Iran as soon as possible. China, India, Canada. Another embassy temporarily withdrew its staff. At this time, it was the United Kingdom. More governments issue travel advisories. Don't travel to Israel. Don't travel to Lebanon. Don't travel to Iran.
And then adding to that, President Trump's comments. President Trump continues to say that he hasn't made up his mind yet and he is the commander-in-chief. Our chief international correspondent, Lise Doucette. As well as Iran, the US is also negotiating with Cuba, according to President Trump.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of AI in military applications?
Now, making that a reality with the revolutionary government in place in Cuba is a very, very different prospect. So ultimately, it's quite an easy thing to say. It's a much, much harder thing to bring to fruition. But he is certainly right that the island is hurting very, very hard under this oil blockade. I've literally just got back from Cuba last week.
Those fuel shortages are very, very painful. I saw people cooking with firewood. in Havana, not in the provinces, but in Havana. And those cars that can actually get fuel, because the restrictions are very, very tight, are only limited to 20 litres in a single sitting, which they must pay for in US dollars. Our Central America correspondent, Will Grant.
NASA's Artemis lunar programme has suffered a series of delays in recent years. Now the US Space Agency has announced a shake-up to try to ensure that Americans can return to the moon's surface by 2028. It's changing its flight line-up to include an extra mission involving a spacecraft docking test. Here's NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
We didn't go right to Apollo 11, right? We had a whole Mercury program, Gemini, Apollo, lots of Apollo missions before we ultimately landed. Right now, our program is essentially set up with an Apollo 8 and then going right to the moon. That is, again, not a pathway to success.
The next launch, which is due to see the first flyby of the Moon in more than half a century, will now not happen before April. What does all this mean for the Artemis programme, though? Eric Berger is a senior space editor at the tech and science website Ars Technica.
The goal is the same. And actually, the plan is to try to accelerate the Artemis program to get humans back to the moon from the United States and its partners as quickly as possible. The reality is that the Artemis program had kind of been floundering. Dates had been slipping year for year. The program costs had been going up.
You know, each launch of the rocket and spacecraft as currently configured is more than $4 billion. So all told to date, the Artemis program has spent something on the order of $25 billion. And so the NASA administrator essentially tried to take a rocket that was overpriced and sort of get it in a more affordable and useful configuration and fly it more frequently. I mean-
What we were dealing with was the space launch system, which only launched every three or four years. And that's just not a sustainable program. You need to fly often because otherwise you're, you know, the people who are working to launch, you need a kind of a cadence or a rhythm. You know, imagine if you had a football team, that played one game every three or four years.
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Chapter 4: How does Anthropic's CEO respond to government demands?
I mean, it would be sort of difficult to manage that. He's sent out a pretty big ask of both people at NASA and the private companies it works with, Boeing, Lockheed, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and other companies. But he's making some internal changes that give him a chance.
You know, they're hoping to fly the Artemis II mission, send a crew around the moon in April, and then fly another mission in low Earth orbit in 2027, and then potentially do a lunar landing in 2028.
Eric Berger. The American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka has died at the age of 86. His family described him as a true rock and roll legend who'd been an inspiration to millions. He wrote a string of hits over six decades, including Oh Carol, Solitaire and Breaking Up Is Hard To Do. A skilled pianist, Neil Sedaka also composed songs for other musicians and was nominated for five Grammy Awards.
We're prevented by rights restrictions from playing his music, but Chantal Hartle looks back at his career. Neil Sadaka wrote his first song at 15 and performed it at his school. Here he is speaking in 2014 for the BBC documentary King of Song.
I wrote a song, a rock and roll song called Mr. Moon, and I played it in the school auditorium for a amateur show. And the response from the kids was phenomenal. I realized then I liked the attention that I would get rather than playing a Chopin etude. I was the school celebrity. And immediately all the girls surrounded me. I knew then I wanted to be famous.
But the teenage Neil Sadaka asked if he could have a break from the Juilliard Music School and try his hand at pop. He said, to begin with, no one would sign him as a singer because of his unusual voice.
They said, we'll have you audition for RCA Victor Records. Steve Schultz was the head of RCA Victor, and I played a lot of songs, including The Diary, for Steve Schultz. And he said, yes, I like it because it's very musical. I like the melodies and your voice is very unusual. It's very androgynous. It could be a girl singing or a boy singing. And he saw the potential in that.
Within five years, he'd sold 25 million singles. The Carol of O'Carroll was Carole King, a fellow writer at 1650 Broadway, the pop factory where he and lyricist Howie Greenfield churned out hit after hit. He was at the top of the music business and making around $200 a week. His mother acquired a new lover and they were in charge of the finances. He accused them of stealing his money.
By the late 60s, the hits had dried up, so too had the cash, and he was touring Britain's working men's clubs. What turned things around was the band 10cc. Back then they were session musicians and they helped him create a new sound for the 70s. He was back where he belonged in the charts – It was a run of hits that began in 1958 with Stupid Cupid.
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Chapter 5: What were the outcomes of the third round of nuclear negotiations with Iran?
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