Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst.
It's primary day in six states, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota, and
“California, where Democrats hope new congressional maps will help.”
Scott Schaefer from Member Station KQED in San Francisco has more. Flipping three of the five seats now held by Republicans will be fairly easy, but then there are two, which are not at all slam dunks. One of those is in the Central Valley where Republican David Valadeo is the incumbent now he's given Democrats heartburn in the past very tough to beat. And this time around, although the district is somewhat more favorable to
Democrats, it's still very purple. And there are two Democrats fighting it out there. One is an assembly member and a physician. She's the more moderate candidate and the other is a progressive backed by Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Scott Schaefer reporting. Florida is suing open AI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the
“company of putting profit over safety. In Piershan and Bond reports, it's part of a growing effort”
to hold the makers of AI chat bots accountable for alleged harms caused by their products.
Florida is the first state to sue open AI over chatGPT's design.
The lawsuit accuses the company of knowing the chat bot could be harmful, but marketing it as safe. It's also seeking to hold CEO Sam Altman personally liable. Florida Attorney General James Rothmeyer summed up the state's case. Sam Altman and chatGPT have chosen the AI race over the safety and security of her kids. Open AI didn't respond to a request for comment, but has previously said it works to improve safety. Rothmeyer has separately opened a criminal
investigation into open AI over the alleged use of chatGPT to plan a mass shooting at Florida State University. Shannon Bond and Piernes. The federal housing agency HUD is once again
“overhauling its funding for homelessness. As NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports, the changes are being”
made despite an ongoing lawsuit over the agency's push to shift money away from long-term housing. In a new notice, the agency says it will prioritize transitional programs that requires sobriety or mental health treatment HUD Secretary Scott Turner says this will get at the root causes of homelessness. Federal policy has long-focused on getting people into permanent housing with voluntary treatment. The Trump administration blames that approach for skyrocketing rates
of homelessness. Local providers say high rents are the bigger problem. HUD first announced
this major funding shift late last year, but a federal judge blocked it saying a sudden change could cause chaos and push many back onto the streets. Jennifer Ludden and Piernes, Washington. You're listening to NPR News. AI is often blamed for recent job losses, but new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York suggests working remotely may have driven up unemployment rates among younger college grads, and Piernes' Andrea Shu has more. The study began with a deep
dive into 1-14-500 tech company. Researchers found when the company went to remote work after the pandemic, they switched away from hiring young people. University of Virginia Economist Emma Harrington is one of the study's authors, so they used to hire a bunch of new grads for their software engineering jobs, then they shifted really towards hiring much older people, who needed less training, less mentoring, but when the company implemented an aggressive
return to office policy, they resumed hiring new grads. The researchers found similar trends across the economy in occupations that can be done remotely. An employment rose for college graduates under the age of 29, and fell slightly for those over. Andrea Shu and Piernes. The number of teenagers and young adults turning to AI chatbots for mental health advice, jump by nearly 40% to the past year. According to a new study published in Gemma Pediatrics,
nearly half say they use the chatbots at least once a month, and a majority of the teens, say they don't tell anybody about it, but health professionals are warning parents and school officials that chatbots can provide inaccurate information. You as future contracts are trading lower at this hour, on Janine Herbst, and you're listening to NPR News from Washington. It's June and another big week
in the run-up to the midterms, primaries and half a dozen states, including California, where new congressional maps are in place, and a chaotic race for governor is wide open. We're also following gas prices and Iran. So far, talk of a peace deal is just talk.
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