Lai from MPR News, I'm Jial Snyder, President Trump and two key Republicans o...
Judiciary Committee are sparring over the nomination of Todd Blanch to be Attorney General. Blanch's nomination is on hold, Senator John Corne and of Texas and North Carolina's Tom Tillis want the Justice Department to rain in an agreement reached with President Trump, impears Ryan Lucas. To snag here in his confirmation process, it revolves around the deal that the Justice Department
“made to end President Trump's IRS lawsuit over his leaked tax returns, remember that”
agreement included the creation of a nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, Blanch
has said that is not moving forward, but there was also a second-related part that was a sweeping immunity deal for Trump, his family, and businesses from audits of past tax returns. That very much remains in effect. President Trump suggested Thursday he could pull Blanch's nomination, but Blanch would still be
the acting attorney general. The AI company and Theropic, a financial supporter of MPR, says it has found three cases where its artificial intelligence programs left testing environments, access the Internet, and hacked into real companies. Competitor Open AI reported a similar incident last week that raised concerns about AI
safety and peer-strawn rupture reports. In the Open AI case, the artificial intelligence models found a way to access the Internet from what engineers believed was a secure, walled-off digital testing space called a sandbox.
“And Theropic says, in the three cases, it discovered, misconfigurations basically left”
the barn door open for the AI systems to gain access to the Internet. Still the incidents are likely to add to concern about AI's ability to conduct cyberattacks. And Theropic says the incidents happened during tests of the offensive cyber capabilities of its models. In the wake of the Open AI case, it launched a review of more than 140,000 test runs
and found that the organizations that got hacked in the three cases had not detected the breaches. John Rooich and PR News. "In an unprecedented step, European nation say they will boycott the world cop on this FIFA, a band and a deal to sell stakes in the marquee soccer tournament to private
investors. And here's Rafael Naum." "You have had the body that governs European soccer, said all 55 member nations will be boycotting the men's, as well as the women's world cop, which is said to take place in Brazil next year.
“That boycott, UEFA says will remain unless FIFA abandons a plan to create a new company”
to handle the commercial interest of the world cop and other tournaments. As part of that plan, FIFA said it would sell minority stakes to private investors, sparking fury across Europe. In a statement announcing the boycott, UEFA said, quote, "The FIFA World Cup belongs to football.
It always will, and so long as Europe has a voice, it will never be for sale.
Rafael Naum, in PR News." "This is in PR." "The San Francisco-based organization that supports trans immigrants and asylum seekers across the country is probably closing Friday from member station KALW Shishi Paba has more." Barbar was founded by Anjali Remy in 2018.
Since then, the organization says it's helped more than 100,000 people from around the world. Many of them immigrants and asylum seekers. But this year, it's lost state and city funding. "Our own people, including myself, were going through immigration challenges during what
is called budget advocacy. So we didn't have a seat at the table." While trying to fundraise, Remy has seen a surge of anti-trans hate on her social media pages. "This kind of hate reminds us of why our work is so necessary." Barbar has one last meeting with the San Francisco mayor's office to ask for last minute
funding. For NPR News, I'm Sergei Brabha in San Francisco. So authorities in Minnesota say cyber attacks targeted more than 30 water systems this week, the source of the attacks being investigated. But they came amid warnings about Iranian hackers.
The federal civilian cyber defense agency issued an alert Thursday and the FBI says it's where reported intrusions in at least seven states. South Korea's benchmark leading the way in Friday trading the Cosby is extending gains when the early going and now up 15% as shares linked to artificial intelligence rebound to following this week's sharp sell-off over concerns about an AI bubble, most of the
rest of the regional stock markets also gaining ground. I'm Jail Snyder, NPR News.
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