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Penny Lane Man shows some respect. You can find my interview on the Fresh Air podcast. Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Willman. President Trump traveled to South Texas Friday to town his economic agenda, his imperial
flag, co-ordoneous reports, the visit comes just days ahead of a critical Republican primary
election. President Trump visited Corpus Christi, where he touted his drill baby drill agenda. So we're witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen in this port is right at the center of the action. But a speech was somewhat overshadowed by the heated Republican primary elections in the
state. Senator John Cornin is trying to win his fifth term in the Senate, but is being challenged by state attorney general Ken Paxton and representative Wesley Hunt in a rough primary fight.
“Trump gave shoutouts to all three Republicans during his speech, but he stopped short of endorsing”
one in the race. Franco. Ordon, yes. NPR News. Former President Bill Clinton answered questions for more than six hours Friday about
his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton told members of the House Oversight Committee that his friendship with Epstein ended long before Epstein's initial conviction in 2008. After the testimony, Republican representative James Comer of Kentucky says they'll now release videos of the deposition and transcripts of both Bill and Hillary Clinton once
they're reviewed by attorneys. I think we learned some things. We were hoping to get more, but there were many questions, as you will see hopefully in the next 24 hours when the videos were released, that there were a lot of very specific
“questions about very specific documents and correspondence that were subpoenaed by that”
we got from the Department of Justice as well as the Epstein estate.
Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT, says it's getting $110 billion in fresh funding to
meet demand for artificial intelligence, as NPR's John Ruich reports. The money comes from some of the biggest companies in tech. The investments include $30 billion from the chipmaker in video, another $30 billion from the Japanese investment company, SoftBank, and $50 billion from Amazon. Open AI says in a statement, the partnerships expand its global reach, deepen its infrastructure
and strengthen its balance sheet, concerns about disruption from AI and the profitability of AI companies have rattled stock markets in recent weeks. Tech companies have hauled in hundreds of billions of dollars to develop AI, but some critics say the return on investment is unclear. AI says bigger is better, and the leader in AI will have scale that requires money and
customers.
It says ChatGPT already has more than 900 million weekly users and over 50 million subscribers.
John Ruich and PR News. Open AI CEO Sam Alpenhammead Wiles says the company has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to use its models on the Pentagon's classified network that comes after Enthropics AI was removed Friday from a similar role with Defense Department. You're listening to NPR News.
President Trump says he's not happy with the outcome of the latest talks with Iran over its nuclear program, but in comments Friday he said he'll give negotiators more time to reach a deal. The latest round of indirect talks ended in Geneva on Friday. Trump has been threatening military action against Iran if it does not agree to a deal
that drastically curtail its nuclear ambitions. A major cattle vaccination effort is underway in South Africa where an outbreak of foot in mouth disease is ongoing. Officials say some 300,000 cattle are infected in 17,000 farms are involved. The government is declared a national disaster.
The outbreak is threatening the country's meat and dairy exports. One of the early stars of 1950s and 60s rock and roll, his died at the age of 86. Steve Futterman looks back at his career. Neal Sedakas first number one hit was breaking up his heart to do. "If you go then I'll be blue, cause breaking up is hard to do."
There would be other hits, telling the girl, and Ocarol, written for his one-time girlfriend, Carol King. When the British invasion hit Sedakas career suffered, but in the 70s he made a comeback. Thanks in large parts to Elton John, who helped promote it and sang backup on his biggest comeback hit, bad blood.
Sedakas was also a prolific songwriter for others. He wrote the classic "Love Will Keep Us Together" for "Captain In To Neal." For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in Los Angeles. And I'm Dale Wilman, NPR News. Listen to this podcast Sponsored Free on Amazon Music with a Prime Membership, or any podcast
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