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Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The ceasefire deal between the U.S. and Iran appears to be on shaky ground. Iran says it has again closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon Wednesday, said to be the deadliest day of the war. Lebanon's health ministry says 182 people were killed, but said that figure is not final. The White House is demanding the strait be reopened. Here's NPR's Jackie Northam reporting.
Despite being anchored since the start of the war more than a month ago, hundreds of ships were not eager to transit the Strait of Hormuz. The big concern is safety. There were still regional attacks. It's uncertain if Iran has cleared mines in the water and a threat broadcast to the ships from Iran itself. The White House says the president is aware of reports that Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and disputes them, while also saying that would be completely unacceptable. Jackie Northam, NPR News.
Now to the U.S. heartland where farmers are hoping to cease fire and Iran will hold. But NPR's Kirk Sigler reports that many do not expect fuel or fertilizer prices to go down anytime soon.
Farmers are already dealing with high equipment and fertilizer costs due to inflation and President Trump's latest trade war. And the war in Iran has driven up those costs even more. Justin Sherlock grows corn and soybeans.
We really need this to be resolved soon and for the oil and energy markets to try and stabilize if we can.
Sherlock is going into his fourth straight year in the red. The farmers here still holding on are only surviving because land prices are so high and that's collateral to the banks. We're at a point where we're literally betting the farm to try and keep going one more year right now. Farmers hope the war and geopolitics don't get in the way with ongoing trade negotiations with China, traditionally North Dakota's largest buyer of soybeans. Kirk Sigler in PR News, Fargo.
The artificial intelligence company Anthropix, Matt, with the Pentagon, has not stopped the company from moving ahead. It's out with a new AI model. and it's limiting the release to a select group of tech and cybersecurity companies. NPR's Shannon Bond reports that Anthropic says the model could power damaging cyber attacks.
Anthropic says its new model, known as Claude Mythos Preview, is really good at identifying security flaws in software. It's so good, the company says, it would be dangerous to roll it out to the general public because bad actors could use it to exploit those flaws. Instead, Anthropic is giving access to a group of more than 40 companies, from Google and Apple to cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. They'll use the model to shore up their defenses and patch holes. Anthropic says the model has already found thousands of vulnerabilities, including in every major operating system and web browser, some of which had gone undetected for years. Shannon Bond, NPR News.
This is NPR. The California Supreme Court has ordered the Republican Sheriff of Riverside County to pause his investigation into election fraud allegations while it reviews a legal challenge. The order came after California's Democratic Attorney General asked the court to step in last month. A voting rights group is also involved. Sheriff Chad Bianco seized more than half a million ballots last month in response to a complaint from a local citizens group about The ballot count from the November special election on redistricting. Delta Airlines expects to pay over $2 billion for fuel as the war in the Middle East continues to impact the global economy. From member station WABE, Marlon Hyde reports that the Atlanta-based carrier made the announcement as it reported its quarterly earnings Wednesday.
Delta is the first major U.S. airline to report quarterly earnings since late February, when the war in Iran began. The carrier says first quarter fuel costs soared by $332 million. CEO Ed Bastian says the company is moving quickly to recapture higher expenses, including reducing capacity in the current quarter.
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