Chapter 1: What concerns are being raised about the AI bubble?
There is a lot of fear these days that AI could be a bubble. So, Nick, is it? I don't know. Right. It is hard to tell. But there are some clues that economists say might kind of sort of help us predict bubbles. On the Planet Money podcast, the dark art of bubble detection. Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is cheering on protesters who have taken to the streets in Iran at great risk of physical harm. NPR's Tamara Keith reports on his remarks today to the Detroit Economic Club.
In the midst of a speech about the U.S. economy, Trump paused to deliver a message to the people of Iran. Help is on its way.
Keep protesting. Take over your institutions if possible. And save the name of the killers and the abusers that are abusing you, you're being very badly abused.
Trump says he has canceled all meetings with Iranian officials until the killing of protesters stops. Top U.S. national security officials met to discuss scenarios for Iran, though Trump didn't attend. It's not clear precisely what his policy aims are, but he says he wants to, quote, make Iran great again. Tamara Keith, NPR News.
The U.S.-based human rights activist news agency says the number of deaths from the protest in Iran now tops 2,500 and nearly 17,000 have been detained. The State Department, meanwhile, is urging U.S. citizens to leave Iran, including by land, through Turkey or Armenia.
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Chapter 2: What are President Trump's remarks about the protests in Iran?
Minnesota's top federal fraud attorney is stepping down after the Justice Department pushed his office to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE officer last week. Minnesota Public Radio's Dana Ferguson reports.
Joe Thompson, the attorney with extensive experience prosecuting social services fraud in Minnesota, resigned from the U.S. Attorney's Office, along with several other experienced attorneys. The move comes after top Justice Department officials pushed the Minnesota U.S.
Attorney's Office to investigate the widow of Renee Macklin Good, the person shot and killed last week by ICE agent Jonathan Ross. The prosecutors also raised concerns about immigration enforcement efforts diverting resources away from prosecuting major fraud cases in the state. For NPR News, I'm Dana Ferguson in St. Paul.
The Federal Trade Commission is suing an artificial intelligence search engine it accuses of engaging in what it calls rampant consumer deception. NPR's Bobby Allen reports on allegations the company tricked people into signing up for monthly memberships.
The company is called Just Answer. It runs hundreds of sites like AskWomensHealth.com, AskALawyer.com, and Perl.com. FTC investigators say people would find them by clicking an online ad, which would instruct them to sign up to get human help with their questions. That's when hundreds of thousands of people got allegedly locked into monthly fees up to nearly $80 a month.
It's a tactic known as dark patterns, when consumers are tricked into recurring fees that are difficult to cancel. In a statement, a JustAnswer spokesman said the company's disappointed with the suit, saying its pricing models are clear and simple. The investigation was started under former FTC chair Lena Kahn and continued in the Trump administration. Bobby Allen, NPR News.
And you're listening to NPR News. Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. A family spokesperson says she died Tuesday under hospice care in Texas. She was 86. Colvin was 15 when she was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white woman nine months before Rosa Parks.
Myanmar has been charged with the genocide of its Rohingya Muslim minority in a case that opened this week at the International Court of Justice in the Netherlands. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports the proceedings are being watched for clues on how the court could deal with future cases, such as the one against Israel over its actions in Gaza.
The case against Myanmar was brought by the West African nation of Gambia. The 1948 Genocide Convention gives countries a mandate to act against genocide, even if they're not affected. Gambia's Justice Minister Dal Dajalo presented the case to ICJ judges.
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