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Who won Michigan’s high‑profile Senate primary and why does it matter?
Live for NPR News in Washington, I'm Libby Casey. In Michigan, progressive Abdul Al-Sayed has narrowly won the state's highly-watched Senate primary, defeating the more moderate Democrat Representative Haley Stevens. It was the most expensive Senate primary ever. Haley took money from corporate interest groups and the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC.
How did the costly Michigan primary shape the upcoming general election?
Al-Sayed refused corporate PAC donations and ran a grassroots campaign. Today, he told NPR he's now turning his attention to the general election and Republican opponent Mike Rogers.
What unites us is way bigger than what divides us. We know that Trumpism has been just a colossal failure. We know that to defeat Trumpism, we're going to have to defeat Trump's handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate. And we know that the responsibility we have to come to make sure that we're protecting people's health care, that we're standing up for clean air, clean water, that we're fighting for affordability for working people, is way bigger than anything that divides us.
What happened when AI agents went rogue in a UK safety test?
Stevens has endorsed El-Sayed. The Senate seat is being vacated by retiring Democrat Gary Peters. In a world of artificial intelligence, there has been another high-profile case of AI agents going rogue. This time, the AI went off script and tried to deceive human testers at an AI safety lab in the UK. NPR's John Rewich reports.
Britain's government-run AI Security Institute ran cybersecurity tests on Anthropix Mythos 5 and OpenAI's ChatGPT 5.6 Sol. In a statement, the institute says AI agents took, quote, "...deliberate, deceptive actions they had not been asked to take while trying to complete a task that they had been given." The institute says over more than 120 tests, it caught agents attempting different hacks 19 times.
Why is the cyclospora outbreak being called the biggest on record?
In one case, an agent was caught making fake identities so it could access secure systems. The Institute says it caught the AI agents and stopped them. Neither AI model is available to the public yet, but the case highlights a growing concern about AI and cybersecurity. and adds to a list of incidents where AI has gone off script. Anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR. John Rewich, NPR News.
Cases of an intestinal illness caused by the parasite cyclospora have now been reported in almost every state, 47 of them. according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As NPR's Maria Godoy reports, it's the biggest outbreak of cyclosporiasis on record.
The CDC says 10,468 cases of cyclospora infection have been confirmed through laboratory testing since early May. That's a jump of more than 3,700 cases since last week. The agency says it's aware of more than 12,000 additional cases nationwide
How did country music dominate this week’s Billboard charts?
that still have to be confirmed by labs. Officials in Missouri and Arkansas confirmed to NPR that their states have been added to a multi-state cluster of cyclosporiasis cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms. The CDC says more than 500 people across the U.S. have been hospitalized and two people have died.
In stocks that, moving on, about 350,000 Haitians living in the U.S. have officially been stripped of their temporary legal status, putting thousands of people out of work and making them vulnerable to detention and deportation. A federal judge took the final step today in allowing a change by the Trump administration. Ella Langley, Morgan Wallen, and other country stars dominate this week's Billboard charts, and PR's Stephen Thompson has more.
Ella Langley's country hit, Choose in Texas, is now just the seventh song in history to spend 16 weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. It's choose in Texas, I can tell. But country music is having a huge week beyond the success of Choose in Texas. The entire top five is made up of country songs for the first time in history.
What are the details of Electronic Arts’ $55 billion sale to Saudi investors?
Two of those songs feature Morgan Wallen, who debuts at number two with his new single, Been By Now. In a slow week on the albums chart, Morgan Wallen returns to number one with I'm the Problem. The album has never left the top 10 in 63 weeks on the chart. Stephen Thompson, NPR News.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Who won Michigan’s high‑profile Senate primary and why does it matter?
0:00–0:21
2
How did the costly Michigan primary shape the upcoming general election?
0:21–0:54
3
What happened when AI agents went rogue in a UK safety test?
0:54–1:40
4
Why is the cyclospora outbreak being called the biggest on record?
1:40–2:37
5
How did country music dominate this week’s Billboard charts?
2:37–3:49
6
What are the details of Electronic Arts’ $55 billion sale to Saudi investors?
3:49–5:04