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Live from MPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. President Trump is back at the White House arriving there late Wednesday night after campaigning in North Carolina for Republican Senate candidate Michael Watley, a former party chair who was locked in a challenging race against his Democratic opponent, former Governor Roy Cooper. At a rally in Castonia, Trump again asked supporters to pretend that he's on the ballot.
But in this election I'm asking you to pretend I'm on the ballot just one more time. I said that the other night.
Trump also repeated his promise to send every U.S. adult citizen a five thousand dollar check. If Republicans retain control, the House and Senate, North Carolina was Trump's first major campaign stop since his midterm convention in Dallas last week. President Trump blasting the Federal Reserve for raising its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point Wednesday. Trump said Fed governors are trying to hurt him. politically. ChatGPT maker OpenAI has made public six more instances of artificial intelligence programs misbehaving. This follows the so called hugging face hacking incident in July that ant up widespread concern about AI spiraling out of human control. Here's him Pierce John Ruich reporting.
OpenAI says it's put in place a new framework for disclosing what AI companies call misalignment episodes, that is, incidents when artificial intelligence goes off script and does things that humans didn't ask for. It highlighted new cases from the past six months. In one, an AI research model made up its own instructions to disregard constraints that humans had put on it for testing. In another, the company found cases of AI deciding to conceal mistakes or bad behavior. The company also found AI models fabricating information and AI agents working together when they weren't asked to. OpenAI says the reports are initial disclosures, not a comprehensive account of all known misalignment or ongoing investigations, but it says it's committed to sharing more over time.
John Ruich, NPR News.
Now to Nashville, Tennessee, where some are pushing back on an ICE call center headed for the city. Cynthia Abrams of Member Station WPLN reports.
Dozens showed up to Nashville's Metro Council meeting Tuesday night, urging city leaders to say no to the proposed center, which would provide twenty-four-seven support to law enforcement agencies partnering with ICE. Here's Luis Mata, deputy executive director for the Tennessee Democratic Party.
I grew up in this state undocumented. I know firsthand what it means when the power of the government is hanging over your family.
Federal documents show an Alaskan company won a government contract of up to $63 million to build the center. Earlier this year, ICE announced plans to open a detention center in a Nashville suburb. That project was called off after blowback from locals. For NPR News, I'm Cynthia Abrams in Nashville.
This is MPR. The House has passed a broad package of sanctions targeting Russian officials and key sectors of the country's economy. The bill is named after the late South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. It aims to deprive Russian President Vladimir Putin of the financial resources to wage war against Ukraine. It now goes to President Trump's desk. In Los Angeles, a motorist has been arrested on murder charges. Authorities say the driver slammed her SUV into a city bus Tuesday evening. Killing two people and injuring six others, the collision precipitated the fiery crash of a news helicopter in which three people were killed, including the pilot and a reporter for KMBC TV. Scientists have created a new model for studying brain diseases.
Impierce Ping Huang reports it involves putting human brain cells into mice.
Ресерчер тонн и треть бран дисплеїзон левої хумс. Сергійо Пашка і за неросинтест от Стар.
Дерзбіндис кест в дохід ось до хуманбаї. And then deploy them very systematically towards studying this devastating disorders of the brain.
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