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The leaders behind some of the world's most advanced AI systems say it's time for the
industry to hit the brakes.
“They're warning that rapid development is moving faster than safety measures and government”
oversight can keep up. During an interview with CNN and Thropic CEO Dario Amade says developers need more time to make sure each new advance can be introduced safely. If we just had a little more time, we could do so much of a better job here. And so we're going to take the more time to make sure that we don't get to the world
of persistent botnets to make sure that each step we take is a careful step. Open AI CEO Sam Altman is backing Anthropics call. Like billionaire Elon Musk is also expressing support for slowing the development of the most powerful AI systems. The shutdown of Saudi Arabia's east-west oil pipeline is raising new concerns about
global supplies and fuel prices.
The kingdom closed the pipeline after drone attacks struck the critical energy brood.
“It had become a major alternative to the straight-of-war moves where the war with their”
Ron has reduced tanker traffic to a trickle. Morgan Baslin is a professor of public policy at the Pain Institute. There was a lot of reliance on this east-west pipelines moving millions of barrels of extra or diverted oil that couldn't get through the straight-of-form moves one way or the other. And so it was seen as a critical infrastructure that was resilient in as much as it provided
an alternative pathway. Before the shutdown, the pipeline had been moving between 4 and 5 million barrels a day. While makers in Britain are weighing in on President Trump's call for a united Ireland, Vicky Barker reports the president is visiting the country this weekend. politicians from Northern Ireland's mainly Protestant unionist parties were as quick
to condemn President Trump's comments as their mainly Catholic, Republican counterparts were to praise it.
“A British government spokesman says there's no evidence Northern Ireland's people want”
unification. Even the Trumpist reform leader Nigel Farage has said he disagrees with Trump on this one. Trump's opposition conservative leader Kemi Badenock has said the comments are creating unnecessary tension.
As the Brits would say, quiet, separatist politicians from Scotland whales and Northern Ireland will meet Monday to discuss their vision for full succession from the UK. For NPR News, I'm Vicky Barker in London. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. This constant Congressman and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tiffany, says he
and a pilot suffered minor injuries after their plane made an emergency water landing last night. Tiffany says the plane lost power as they approached the airport after returning from a Republican dinner. The pilot landed the plane in a lake, as the aircraft began to sink the two climbed out
and swam to shallow water.
The Congressman later thanked the pilot and the first responders who came to their aid.
Certain rescue operations are underway in the job of C after a ferry over turn last night. Officials in Indonesia say at least six people have died and more than 130 others are missing. Michael Sullivan reports at least 100 people have been pulled to safety. Officials say the ferry was carrying more than 240 people.
And it sank in heavy seas on a trip from Surabaya in East Java to Bunger Masin and South Kalimantan province. Authorities say the captain of the vessel had reported waves of up to 10 feet, an issued a distress message in the early morning hours before the ship sank. Officials deployed rescue teams aboard several vessels, as well as a helicopter to search
for survivors. Indonesia is an archipelago of some 17,000 islands where ferries are a common form of travel, hundreds of relatives of the missing of gathered at Bunger Masin's Trosak deport waiting for news of the missing. For NPR news, I'm Michael Sullivan in Chiang Rai.
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