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Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Thousands of federal workers are spending a 22nd day in limbo with no sign of a political compromise that would end the government shutdown. Holding a narrow majority in the Senate, Republicans have been unable to overcome the Democrats' holdout for stronger health care protections. NPR's Stephen Fowler reports on President Trump's campaign to force the Democratic Party's hand.
Trump has actually referred repeatedly to cutting explicitly Democrat programs, and there is no such thing. The two million or so civilian federal employees that do things like process Social Security payments, handle your taxes, and do other government services work in a nonpartisan manner. But there are things championed by Democrats and former President Joe Biden's administration that the White House says are partisan, not necessary, and do not align with Trump's values.
NPR's Stephen Fowler reporting. The artificial intelligence company OpenAI has launched an AI-enabled web browser. NPR's John Rewich reports this opens a new front in OpenAI's competition with Google.
The new browser is called Atlas, and the company says it's built with the chatbot chat GPT at its core. Part of what it'll be able to do is remember past searches and context from those searches. The company says that'll make it easier to, say, pull up previous results and work with them. It'll also be able to summarize and analyze content from websites. OpenAI launched the browser on macOS and says it'll be available on Windows, iOS, and Android soon. Move takes the competition between so-called AI answer engines and traditional search to new levels. Traditional search is dominated by Google and its Chrome browser, which is the world's most popular way to access the internet. But ChatGPT has leapt in popularity as an information retrieval tool.
Google's share price fell after the announcement. John Rewich, NPR News.
Meta, the parent company of such platforms like Facebook, says it's laying off about 600 employees who work on AI development. That's according to an internal announcement confirmed by NPR. Russia says efforts to schedule a new meeting between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss efforts to end the war in Ukraine continue. Despite Trump's announcement yesterday, he was postponing the talks over a lack of progress in negotiations. Here's NPR's Charles Mains.
Speaking to journalists, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Putin shared Trump's desire to not waste time on talks that go nowhere. That's why, Peskov continued, more time was needed to prepare for the summit, adding there'd been too much gossip and rumor in the media about the talks' demise. Yet Russia has openly rejected Trump's calls to freeze the war in Ukraine along existing battle lines, a plan since embraced by Ukraine and European allies. Instead, Russia is insisting it wants a long-term peace deal that addresses what it calls the root causes of the conflict. Critics say that's Kremlin's shorthand for demands for Ukraine's capitulation and NATO's pullback from Eastern and Central Europe.
Charles Mainz reporting. It's NPR News. Nearly two-thirds of white evangelicals in the U.S. believe discrimination against Christians and white Americans has become as big a problem as discrimination against other groups. NPR's Jason DeRose reports on the findings of a new study from the Public Religion Research Institute, or PRRI.
The percentage of white evangelicals who believe Christians face discrimination differs significantly from the general population. Still, PRRI found that nearly 4 in 10 of all Americans agree discrimination against Christians and white Americans has become as big a problem as discrimination against other groups. There's a marked difference in response based on political party affiliation.
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