"Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Kristen Wright.
Twenty-five years ago today, terrorists hijacked four commercial planes and crashed into
“the World Trade Center in New York City, Pentagon, and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.”
September 11th, the tax killed more than 3,000 people, and more have died from related health problems since. Stories of lives lost and heroism on that day are being shared, as a nation pauses to remember. Observances will take place at Brown-Zero, the Pentagon, and the Flight 93 Memorial."
The Republican midterm convention closed last night in Texas. President Trump repeated his pledge to send every American adult citizen $5,000 if the GOP keeps control of Congress after the mid-terms. He defended his proposed dividends to reporters as he left Dallas. "I didn't do a churning out the vote.
I've do this as a reward for people having to put up with five years and four years
of horrible situation caused by Biden."
The payments would cost the government more than a trillion dollars and likely require congressional approval.
“Some legal experts question whether Trump is attempting to buy votes.”
The Labor Department will give an update on inflation, and PR's Scott Horsley reports the news will be closely watched by the federal reserve. Forecasters think the report will show that consumer prices in August were up about 3.4% from a year ago. They think the cost of living rose nearly half a percent between July and August, thanks
in part to a surge in energy prices amid renewed fighting in and around the straight-of-form moves. Gasoline prices have been climbing and diesel prices have soared to an all-time high. The inflation report will help to inform policymakers at the Federal Reserve, as they try
to decide whether to raise interest rates next week.
The Central Bank has kept its benchmark rate steady since December, but not without some debate. Three members, the rate-setting committee, voted to raise rates at the last fit, meeting in July. Scott Horsley, in pair news, Washington.
The AI company and THROPIC issued a report on its efforts to disrupt threat actors, from trying to use its AI model clawed from malicious activity. And here's John Vrewich reports that includes blocking research that can lead to the development of biological weapons. The kind of science knowledge that experts say makes advanced AI useful in developing
cures for diseases could also potentially be used to develop bioweapons. And that risky is one of the big concerns that AI researchers and policymakers have about the technology, and THROPIC noted five case studies, one involved researching how to make a mosquito-borne disease more transmissible. Another involved redesigning toxins for what Anthropics says was a national program.
Anthropics says it's hard to know definitively if the cases were related to plans to build bioweapons, but it notes that it disrupted the activity and shared the information with the authorities and partners in the industry. And a note anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR, John Riewicz and PR News. This is NPR News from Washington.
Elon Musk is threatening to sue filmmaker Alex Gibney over an upcoming documentary on the billionaire. As NPR's Bobby Allen reports, Musk's lawyer wrote a letter to the film's production company, claiming the film's defamatory. Gibney's film includes text messages Musk sent, which NPR has obtained, showing Musk discussing
unleashing the anomaly in the matrix, which he says involves his 10,000 lasers in space. There was a debunk conspiracy theory that Musk's SpaceX satellites somehow uploaded votes for Trump in the 2024 presidential election. But Genevieve Lake Year of the University of Chicago Law School says exploring it isn't defamation.
It may be the case that Musk is unhappy about the space lasers thing, but it might be the case that he just does not like the documentary. What he wants to do, whatever he can to shut it down, or to intimidate distributors. Musk's legal team says it will proceed accordingly ahead of the film's October release, Bobby Allen and PR News.
The cost of diesel in the US is now at a record high at savaging $6.5 a gallon. That's from AAA. Rising diesel prices are driving up the cost of transporting goods by truck. Those increases are often passed on to consumers. The National average for regular gas jumped 15 cents in the past week.
It's about 430, volatility in the strain of hormones and the cost of crude oil back over $100 a barrel this week.
“The bells will toll and moments of silence will be held today to remember all of the”
lives lost in the September 11th attacks 25 years ago this morning. I'm Kristen Wright and PR News from Washington. Support for NPR comes from NPR. As we consider this, the researcher who just resigned from Anthropic, why he believes AI is a threat to humanity.
Very soon, these things are going to be so capable that if they decide to go rogue, it's not going to be good. Plus, his view of what guard rails could look like this week on Consider This from NPR.
