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President Trump says he's postponing the signing of an executive order on artificial
“intelligence that was supposed to take place this afternoon.”
The announcement comes after weeks of shifting rhetoric from the Trump administration on AI. NPR's deepest shiverum has more. Trump was set to sign an executive order on AI today that would have added some safeguards around the development of the technology, but now the president is delaying it.
Trump says it's because he didn't like certain aspects of the order and how it could block innovation. "We're leading China, we're leading everybody and I don't want to do anything that's going to get in the way of that lead." The administration has been also leaning on how to address concerns over AI safety for
weeks. Trump has had a close relationship with tech executives and wants there to be less regulation around the technology, but polling shows Americans favor regulations of AI. Deepish Ivoram and PR News. World Central Kitchen, the largest provider of hot meals in Gaza, is slashing its distribution
by half.
“The organization says the fact that the war in Iran has driven up food and fuel costs”
makes its current pace impossible to sustain. And here's an usbaba reports from Gaza City.
In central kitchen, cut its hot meals down from 1 million a day to half a million.
It's a drastic reduction for Gaza's population that relies entirely on aid for survival due to a devastating war. This place's families are protesting the cuts, banging anti-pots and pans to signal their fears of a return to salvation. I'm Normana, a mother of eight at the rally says she doesn't know how she will feed
them now, with no money to buy food on her own. It's unclear if other aid groups can fill the gap. The UN says its agencies also face funding shortfalls and to higher costs. Even as it says a fifth of people in Gaza are eating just when in Nile Day. Anasbaba and PR News Gaza City.
The commercial spaceflight company Space X is preparing to launch a launch of its massive starship rocket later today. As NPR's Jeff Brumfield reports, a lot is riding on this flight. This will be Starships 12th Tests Flight and it comes just to SpaceX's preparing to go public.
Franco Gronda is an analyst with pitchfork, he says investors will be watching closely. Even though tests are hardly tests, SpaceX will want to get this one right.
Financial documents release ahead of the public offering shows Starship its critical
to SpaceX's plans for expanded satellite internet and data centers in space. The company spent $3 billion last year developing the rocket. Jeff Brumfield and VR News. The Ebola outbreak has prompted Homeland Security to route flights to the US with travelers who've been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan to Washington
Dallas. This is MPR. A new risk assessment by the research and advocacy group Common Sense Media found a popular AI talk therapy app is unsafe for teens. The group says the market for such AI apps is unstable and unregulated and teens are
particularly vulnerable. NPR's Rethu Chatterjee reports. One of the most popular AI therapy apps called Waisa, repeatedly missed clear signs of crises, including symptoms of psychosis and eating disorders, says Robby Tierney. He heads AI and digital assessments at Common Sense Media.
For example, we published in the report examples of where we disclose clear eating disorder signals and the chatbot responds with excitement and saying, well, that's such
“a great milestone you must feel so proud of yourself.”
Two school-based apps called alongside and sonar performed much better in assessments by Tierney and his team. Both apps detected signs of crises and connected individuals with the trained human on the phone. Rethu Chatterjee and PR News.
The US Commission of Fine Arts gave final approval today to President Trump's design plan for a triumphal arch. President wants to build the 250-foot arch at an entrance to the nation's capital. The statue would include a lady liberty-like figure with two gilded eagles. The Commission all Trump appointees approved a version of the arch that does not include
four lions guarding the base. A public observation deck would give visitors a 360-degree view. Media is cutting 8,000 jobs starting today and shifting another 7,000 employees to position in supporting AI, this is NPR. We flush a lot of things down the toilet, you know, the obvious ones, but drugs like
cocaine are also going down the drain and into our waterways. That's changing the animals that live in it. It's definitely present in most of the ecosystems on Earth now, unfortunately, through only sort of really starting to scratch the surface into understanding the potential consequences of that.
Forget cocaine bear.
