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What is President Trump's new AI action plan and its key policy goals?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. President Trump is unveiling an action plan on AI. Today he's expected to sign executive orders that advance Silicon Valley's priorities. By rolling back Biden era regulations on artificial intelligence and Pier Zip Shivram takes a closer look.
The White House says there are over ninety policy actions included in the plan, which centers around removing barriers to innovation and technology and rapidly building up infrastructure like AI data centers. Whitehouse AIZR David Sachs told reporters that it's important the US is the dominant force on AI on the global stage.
there it's a global competition now to lead in artificial intelligence. And we want United States to win that race.
The White House also wants to make sure quote ideological bias isn't in the AI models used by the federal government.
How are Ukraine and Russia negotiations progressing amid protests and political tensions?
They want a quote standard of truthfulness, but officials did not go into detail on what exactly that means.
Mass protests erupt in Ukraine. Activist remarks captured by the Associated Press in the streets of the capital, Kyiv today. People angry, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a bill that many are worried will undermine Ukraine's main anti-corruption bodies. Meanwhile, negotiators from Ukraine and Russia are holding talks today about ending their more than three year old war. And Pierre Charles Main says the meeting's being held in Turkey.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky initiated the talks with an appeal to Moscow to accelerate negotiations towards a ceasefire, yet expectations remained stubbornly low. Ahead of the talks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned not to expect miracles or breakthroughs and said Russia remained committed to achieving its military goals. The spokesman also made clear that Kremlin was not ready to engage Zelensky's calls for a face-to-face meeting with President Vladimir. Vladimir Putin aimed at securing a lasting peace.
Can federal lands be used for housing and why does location matter?
Instead, Russia is signaling it may agree to additional exchanges of prisoners and war dead, alone accomplishment from previous negotiations and far less than the Trump administration is demanding. Charles Maynes MPR News, Moscow.
Opening federal lands to housing could provide relief in some areas, but as NPR's Laurel Walmsley reports, a new study also finds the land is not located where housing is most needed.
The US government owns roughly six hundred and forty million acres of land, and the Trump administration has pushed to sell some of it and develop it for housing. The discussion has focused on land overseen by the Bureau of Land Management. The problem, notes a new study from Realtor dot com, is where that land is located. The biggest acreages are in Alaska and Nevada. Other western states have big chunks too. But there's virtually no BLM land in the Northeast and in most metro areas nationwide, where housing costs are among the highest. Building homes and infrastructure on remote acreages would be expensive too.
Why are descendants of German‑Jewish refugees seeking German citizenship now?
Still, if some of the land were used for millions of new homes, many Americans might find it attractive to move there.
That's Laurel Walmsley. It's NPR. A growing number of American Jews whose families fled Germany in the years before the Holocaust are now seeking to German citizenship NPR's Jason DeRoes report some say they fear political changes in the United States.
In twenty twenty one, Germany expanded who's eligible to apply for citizenship, focusing on the descendants of Jews who fled Nazi persecution. Attorney David Young's company, Becoming German, has helped about fifteen hundred people gain German citizenship. Young says so many people are applying. The paperwork that used to take a few months for the German government to process is now taking a couple of years.
What caused the mysterious illness affecting children in Massachusetts?
Ease of travel and the notion of righting historic wrongs are among the reasons people are applying, but some say they're doing so because of growing anti Semitism and growing authoritarianism in the US. Jason DeRose, NPR News.
A mysterious illness sent eight Massachusetts children to the hospital last night.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is President Trump's new AI action plan and its key policy goals?
0:01–0:51
2
How are Ukraine and Russia negotiations progressing amid protests and political tensions?
0:51–1:53
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Can federal lands be used for housing and why does location matter?
1:53–2:50
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Why are descendants of German‑Jewish refugees seeking German citizenship now?
2:50–3:43
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What caused the mysterious illness affecting children in Massachusetts?
3:43–4:38