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What did President Xi say about meeting President Trump before the end of the year?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Chinese President Xi Jinping says he plans to meet with President Trump twice more before the end of the year. Today, he concluded his historic state visit to the U.S., saying little about whether he and Trump made any progress on their rivalries over A.I., trade, Taiwan or the war in Iran. With rising voter frustrations over surging fuel prices, NPR's Elena Moore says more Republican candidates are now calling for an immediate end to the conflict. Including Mike Rogers in Michigan.
Michigan families are struggling with the price of everyday life. Groceries cost too much. We have to bring prices down. The war with Iran needs to end, and end quickly.
How are rising fuel prices affecting Michigan families and voter sentiment?
Trump's been looming large throughout this midterm cycle, and he's repeatedly told supporters to vote like he's on the ballot. But that could hurt his party. According to the latest NPR-PBS News Marist poll, a plurality of registered voters, 45 percent, say they're voting against him. Elena Moore, NPR News.
NPR's Kirk Sigler is also tracking the domestic fallout from the war and finds record high diesel prices putting the squeeze on the Pacific Northwest loggers.
Diesel here in the timberlands of western Oregon is approaching $7 a gallon. Sean Smith owns Starfire Lumber, where logging trucks pull up daily after cutting trees on nearby private and federal lands.
The dozers and shovels and yarders and stuff they run consume ungodly amounts of fuel. I mean, you'll see 12 or 1,500-gallon trucks.
Why are record diesel prices squeezing Oregon’s timber industry?
tanker trailers at the logging site.
Smith says the industry is grappling with record diesel prices due to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is making inflation even worse just as lumber prices were starting to recover. Kirk Sigler, NPR News, Eugene, Oregon.
The Supreme Court's letting states use the Trump administration's SAVE database to check voter citizenship. Critics say the tools mistakenly flag some eligible voters as potential non-citizens. A federal appeals court has ruled that the Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic. NPR's John Rewich reports on the latest turn in a simmering dispute over how the military can use Anthropic's artificial intelligence models.
Anthropic makes the Claude family of AI models, and it said those models could not be used by the military for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans. The Pentagon, which had contracts with Anthropic, did not like being told what it could or could not do with the models.
What is the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic over the use of AI models?
In March, it designated Anthropic as a national security supply chain risk. Anthropic challenged it in court, but the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. has now ruled two to one that the blacklisting is justified. The court says the Pentagon had ample support for the argument that it was a national security risk to keep using Clawed because the product has encoded restrictions on how it can be used. Anthropic, which is a financial supporter of NPR, says it disagrees with the decision and is considering all options. John Rewich, NPR News.
This is NPR. Pope Leo XIV is adding his voice to global calls for major tech companies to do a better job of protecting humanity from the threats of artificial intelligence.
How is Pope Leo XIV urging tech companies to address AI threats?
The head of the Roman Catholic Church delivered a speech at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris today. In the U.S., President Trump continues to resist calls for an AI development slowdown, citing competition from China. He, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and tech CEOs are expected to hold AI talks next Tuesday. The European Union is standing by its 120 million euro or 136 million dollar fine against Elon Musk's ex after the Trump administration opted to back Musk's attempt to get the case thrown out. The EU accuses Musk's social media company of violating regulations that govern data privacy and fair competition in Europe. Slow-moving nor'easters set to hammer the Mid-Atlantic and New England with damaging winds and coastal flooding.
NPR's John Stolnes reports a storm is also wreaking havoc on the final weekend of Major League Baseball's schedule.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What did President Xi say about meeting President Trump before the end of the year?
0:01–0:42
2
How are rising fuel prices affecting Michigan families and voter sentiment?
0:42–1:33
3
Why are record diesel prices squeezing Oregon’s timber industry?
1:33–2:24
4
What is the Pentagon’s dispute with Anthropic over the use of AI models?
2:24–3:11
5
How is Pope Leo XIV urging tech companies to address AI threats?
3:11–4:10
6
How are nor’easters impacting the MLB schedule and the Boston Red Sox’s games?
4:10–5:04