Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman.
Chapter 2: What recent legal developments have occurred regarding SNAP food aid?
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration's latest request to pause SNAP food aid payments. It comes as the administration is appealing another court order requiring it to pay recipients full November benefits. NPR's Gigi Dubin reports.
Snap recipients in several states, from California to Wisconsin, had just begun seeing money loaded up on their EBT cards to buy food. That's since a federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore those funds by Friday. But the future of that government aid remains uncertain for the tens of millions of Americans who rely on it.
The same day it said it would comply, the Trump administration appealed the ruling all the way up to the Supreme Court. which kicked the case back to an appeals court. It's unclear how states that have already begun paying out November benefits will handle the latest twist in the legal battle over SNAP. Gigi Duban, NPR News.
The FAA has begun reducing flights at airports by 10 percent. That move is in response to the federal government shutdown that's been going on for more than a month. Officials say more and more air traffic controllers and TSA officers are calling out sick. They've been working without pay. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says travelers should still keep booking flights.
The government can open back up. We could have controllers coming to work. And then you're going to be stuck booking a week before you want to travel, and you're going to pay way more money, and you're going to be angry. So book it now.
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits in San Francisco and Los Angeles, each alleging that people have been harmed by interactions with chat GPT. Some of them died by suicide. Member Station KQED's Rachel Miro has more.
The lawsuits against OpenAI allege assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and that the company knew ChatGPT was psychologically manipulative and dangerously sycophantic. Attorney Matthew Bergman leads the Social Media Victims Law Center, one of two organizations bringing the lawsuits.
When you have a machine that is designed to lure people into developing emotional relationships, that is inherently dangerous.
An OpenAI spokesman wrote the company is reviewing the lawsuits and also that it works to train ChatGPT to spot distress and steer users toward real-world support. For NPR News, I'm Rachel Miro in San Francisco.
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