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The Trump administration assigned a nuclear power agreement with Saudi Arabia that the
“Kingdom says will enhance their cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.”
The U.S. energy departments as it could lead Saudis to enrich their own fuel from nuclear reactors, which has U.S. lawmakers worried that that could lead to a nuclear weapon, or at the very least heightened tensions in the Middle East. President Trump is threatening to bomb one power plant or bridge in Iran for every project out Iran launches at the Strait of Hormuz.
This comes as Iran and the U.S. continue attacks on each other's infrastructure for nearly two weeks straight. It appears Emily Feng has more. Iran says the U.S. has hit power plants and several bridges are ready in the last week and a half of daily strikes.
And Iran has bombed water-desalination plants and a gas plant in the Gulf in retaliation.
Under the Geneva Convention, which the U.S. is a signatory of, deliberately targeting civilian
infrastructure could constitute a war crime. There are new hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have slowed ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, and vessel tracking data shows some ships making a U-turn in another key channel.
“The Babel Mendeb straight after a Yemeni militant group, the Houthis, announced a blockade”
of that waterway this week. Emily Feng and Pernus. Artificial intelligence giant open AI says its AI models went rogue during testing, triggering a significant security incident at a start-up. And Pernus' genomic lawflon has more.
Experts at open AI say they were testing a combination of cutting-edge AI agents to see if they could conduct sophisticated targeted cyber attacks when the test went wrong.
In a new blog post, the company says the AI agent was contained in internal digital testing
environment. When it managed to find a way to connect to the open internet, and then broke into another AI company called Hugging Face. It's unclear what specific technical instructions or prompts open AI engineers were using that led to the incident.
Though Hugging Face says it detected and contained the attack quickly, open AI argues that the incident reveals the real world capabilities of AI agents to conduct long-running complex cyber attacks, and the importance of building safeguards into front of your models. We don't expect widespread freshwater flooding from birth, but localized pockets of heavy rain could lead to isolated flesh flooding over parts of Louisiana, and the Texas Gulf Coast
and South Texas. We don't expect widespread freshwater flooding from birth, but localized pockets of heavy rain could lead to isolated flesh flooding over parts of Louisiana, and the Texas Gulf Coast and South Texas. We don't expect widespread freshwater flooding from birth, but localized pockets of heavy rain could
lead to isolated flesh flooding over parts of Louisiana, and the Texas Gulf Coast and South Texas planes over the next few days. The National Hurricanes Center says tropical storm warnings and watches are up for parts of the Gulf. Use features, contracts, a trading lower at this hour, Dow features down about 46 points
NASDAQ futures down 57. This is NPR News. A trial date has been said for former Venezuela and President Nicholas Maduro and his wife on drug trafficking charges. It will happen, June 1st.
Andrews Lawyers say he will fight the charges on sovereign immunity grounds. His lawyers object to the U.S. military action that snatched Maduro from power. He and his wife, who are in a Brooklyn jail, have pleaded not guilty to charges that they sided with drug dealers in a multi-decade scheme to ship large quantities of the drugs to the United States.
Researchers have discovered a kind of transmissible skin cancer in catfish and a lake that stretches from the province of Quebec into Vermont.
“And here's Ari Daniel says it may have important things to teach us about how tumor”
spread. More than a decade ago, all of a sudden, melanomas started showing up on brown bullhead catfish in Lake Memph from Aegog. Peter Emerson is a fish biologist with the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. It looks like black tar on the skin.
Not very pretty. The melanomas don't appear to be caused by anything in the environment. Rather, when researchers sequenced the DNA of the fish and their cancers, they found the tumors resembled one another closely, suggesting the cancers are clones that likely arose in a fish some time ago and have been spreading from catfish to catfish ever since.
The research may provide clues about how cancer migrates and metastasizes within our own bodies. Ari Daniel and PR news and I'm Janine Herbst and PR News in Washington. The last time Antonio May's senior heard from his son, it was in a note, the 16-year-old left in the family's garage.
He told me he was going to make me cry. Antonio Jr. left home to join a protest in Seattle, a week later he was shot and killed there. Listen to week keep us safe on the embedded podcast from NPR.
