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Why did Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon unite over AI risks?
Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. The warnings from tech leaders about the potential harm posed by artificial intelligence is making for strange bedfellows. Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon came together at an event Tuesday in Washington, with Bannon saying the liabilities are real and that a slowdown could be a good thing for the industry.
Then you can start the hard work of what is actually the regulatory apparatus. What is a regulatory a apparatus that does not choke down the creativity? The drive, the urgency.
Speaking from the same stage, Senator Sanders said the public should have a greater say in how the industry develops. But the Trump administration is not on board. Attorney General Todd Blanche saying Tuesday.
What led the House panel to hold Leon Black in contempt over his Epstein ties?
That reports of AI going rogue were somehow leaked to hurt Republicans in the November midterm elections. A House panel voted Tuesday to recommend that disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, the billionaire Leon Black, be held in contempt of Congress. The vote came after Black refused to provide additional information on his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and Pierre Zava Berger reports.
The vote was a bipartisan effort from the House Oversight Committee. The committee subpoenaed Leon Black in June. Congress members wanted answers to questions about his decades-long relationship with the convicted sex offender, including, they say, the at least a hundred fifty-eight million dollars he paid to Jeffrey Epstein. The committee also subpoena non-disclosure agreements that included Black and Epstein. Chairman James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, says Black defied Congress.
No one is above the law.
How is the Trump administration’s rule affecting immigrant truck drivers’ licenses?
Mr. Black will be treated the same as anyone else in this investigation, and his actions have consequences.
Black's attorneys called the resolution a quote complete abomination. The committee's recommendation will now go before the full House of Representatives. Ava Berger, NPR News, Washington.
The Trump administration is defending its crackdown on immigrant truckers in court. Imperial Rose reports a federal appeals court panel heard arguments Tuesday about a rule that would make it harder for many legal immigrants to get commercial driver's licenses.
The Trump administration began targeting immigrant truckers in the name of safety after deadly crashes involving foreign-born drivers in Florida and California. That crackdown includes a rule from the Department of Transportation that would block many immigrants with temporary legal status from driving trucks, including asylum seekers and DACA recipients.
What happened in the KMBC helicopter crash while covering the bus accident?
By the DOT's own estimate, nearly two hundred thousand immigrants could lose their commercial driver's licenses. Critics accuse the administration of scapegoating immigrants and say there is no evidence that foreign born truckers are less safe than US born truckers. They're urging a federal appeals court to toss the rule. Joel Rose, NPR News, Washington.
And you're listening to NPR News. Los Angeles TV station KMBC is confirming that the helicopter that crashed Tuesday evening in the Chatsworth area. was providing the station with coverage of a deadly bus accident. Officials say the crash of the chopper killed three people and another person was hospitalized. Several helicopters were in the air above the bus crash when the chopper working for KMBC went down between two commercial buildings that erupted into a fireball.
Why did Arch Manning apologize for the AI‑generated ESPN clip of Holly Rowe?
The board from adding President Trump's name on the building or on the grounds. President Trump says the Justice Department will appeal and he's also vowing to cancel a planned renovation unless the dispute over his name is reversed by a higher court. The University of Texas quarterback Arch Manning has uh apologized after a barrage of criticism for joking about an AI generated clip of ESPN reporter Holly Rowe that went to the first time. Viral after the Longhorns dramatic comeback win over Ohio State last weekend. Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan.
On the field right after the end of Saturday's game, ESPN's Holly Rowe approached Texas coach Steve Sarkeesian for the usual postgame interview, but Sarkeesian walked away as she tried to ask her first question.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why did Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon unite over AI risks?
0:00–0:50
2
What led the House panel to hold Leon Black in contempt over his Epstein ties?
0:50–1:46
3
How is the Trump administration’s rule affecting immigrant truck drivers’ licenses?
1:46–2:38
4
What happened in the KMBC helicopter crash while covering the bus accident?
2:38–3:33
5
Why did Arch Manning apologize for the AI‑generated ESPN clip of Holly Rowe?
3:33–4:39