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the dispute between President Trump and U.S. Attorney Janine Piero.
“Over her decision last week to drop charges against a former Olympian over damage to”
the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Judge Piero is doing a great job, and our city, Washington, D.C. is a lot safer in no small part to her effort and the prosecutor's efforts that she works with. Piero is a long time Trump ally, but her decision to drop the case and her admission that the damage was due to shot a workmanship, rather than vandalism, through a public
review from President Trump. Todd Blanch's path to the permanent attorney general's job has narrowed main Republican Senator Susan Collins, as she is a no vote to other Republicans or question marks. In the world of artificial intelligence, there's been another high profile case of AI agents going rogue this time, the AI went off script, and tried to deceive human testers at an
AI safety lab in the U.K. in Piero's John Ruach reports. Britain's government run AI Security Institute ran cybersecurity tests on anthropics mythos five and open AI's chatGPD 5.6 soul.
“In a statement, the Institute says AI agents took, quote, "deliberate deceptive actions”
they had not been asked to take while trying to complete a task that they had been given." The Institute says over more than 120 tests, it caught agents attempting different hacks 19 times. In one case, an agent was caught making fake identities so it could access secure systems. The Institute says it caught the AI agents and stopped them.
Neither AI model is available to the public yet, but the case highlights a growing concern about AI and cyber security and adds to a list of incidents where AI has gone off script, anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR, John Ruach and PR News. "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a new director after nearly a year of temporary leaders as Senate voted to confirm Dr. Erica Schwartz Wednesday and Piero's
Ping-Hong reports." Schwartz is a preventive medicine physician who formally served as a top doctor for the Coast Guard and is deputy surgeon general in the first Trump administration. Public health leaders say Dr. Erica Schwartz has excellent credentials, but she's stepping
into a tough role under Health Secretary Robert of Kennedy Jr., who's been critical of
the agency, and is massive of its scientific expertise. They're looking for signs that Schwartz will stand up to the administration if she's pressured to make unscientific decisions or policies as a last CDC director or says she was asked to do. Dr. Demitri Daskalakis is a former top official at CDC.
"I really wish you were lucky in her new role, but I would also say it's not about the job, it's about the public health mission, and that needs to be her focus." Schwartz will be sworn in in the next few days, Ping-Hong and Piero News, and you're listening to NPR News. The forest fires in the Bordeaux region of France are now under control, and firefighters
describe something they've never confronted before, and Piero's owner beardsly spoke with a firefighter who battled the blazes for a week. An ajumal embedding is not from the Bordeaux region, but was called into help.
He says he's never battled anything like it.
"It's good you can't have the Murdochana face a new." We had walls of fire in front of us 60 feet high, and the wind had it constantly changing direction. He said, "None of our regular tactics worked. It felt like the fire had a mind of its own."
He says he's exhausted by the whole experience, but he's happy for the houses and animals they could save. He says when they found a deer in the forest, they douse them with water and tried to point them in the right direction to escape the flames, batting says from his perspective everything has changed with the hotter weather and the drought brought on by climate change.
Eleanor Beardsley and Piero News, Paris. "And Washington stayed firefighters gained ground Wednesday on those wildfires burning in and around Spokane. The official say crews have carved out containment lines around all three fires, but are on guard for a return to hotter and drier weather in the days ahead.
The fires have destroyed hundreds of buildings and force tens of thousands when they're home since Saturday. The financial markets in Asia mostly lower in Thursday trading, South Korea's benchmarked down by more than 4% following declines for some big tech companies on Wall Street oil prices are fairly steady, trading just below $80 per barrel.
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