"Lie," from NPR News, "I'm Lakshmi," saying.
"Open AI is disclosing six more cases of artificial intelligence programs misbehaving,"
“months after the so-called hugging-faced hacking incident,”
"Amped-up concerns about AI spiraling out of human control." This week, major AI tech rivals, including the Maker of Chatchy BT, banded together to declare the need for a coordinated slowdown in AI development, and Piers John Rooich has more on Open AI's latest warning. "Open AI says it's put in place a new framework for disclosing what AI companies
call misalignment episodes that is incident when artificial intelligence goes off-script and does things that humans didn't ask for. It highlighted new cases from the past six months.
In one, an AI research model made up its own instructions to disregard constraints that humans
had put on it for testing. In another, the company found cases of AI deciding to conceal mistakes
“or bad behavior. The company also found AI models fabricating information, and AI agents”
working together when they weren't asked to. Open AI says the reports are initial disclosures, not a comprehensive account of all-known misalignment or ongoing investigations, but it says it's committed to sharing more over time. John Rooich and PR News." "Projects are happening worldwide over rising fuel prices. In the United States, they're still climbing, diesel's hit, another record high. This, as top global oil exporter
Saudi Arabia faces a renewed war in Yemen against the Houthis, with attacks on its energy infrastructure. And Piers A. Batrawi is covering this from Dubai." An official Saudi Arabia, who spoke anonymously in order to discuss security matters, confirmed to NPR that there was a meeting over the weekend between the U.S. and the Houthis in Oman. And the official says that SENTCOM chief Brad Cooper, briefed Saudi Crown Prince on Monday
about that meeting, and said that the Houthis said they would not attack U.S. or Israeli vessels in the Red Sea that those attacks are focused only on Saudi oil tankers and carriers. And that official told NPR that the U.S. is helping the Saudis with planning and sharing intel on Houthi forces in weapons depose. "U.S. farmers in rural northern border states are trying to adapt to new retaliatory tariffs on farm equipment from Canada. Here's NPR's Kirk Sickler."
Lee Dalman farms in Montana's Golden Triangle, one of the country's top wheat growing areas, he's been trying to save money on fertilizer by rotating in crops like lentils that naturally inject nitrates into his soil and using new smart tech that selectively drops fertilizer or pesticides from his sprayer. "So does terrorist affect me? No. Is it bothering me? No. Some things may be made in Canada. Yeah, but in my, as long as you're smart and wise about it,
you know, we don't have to buy out of Canada." Still farmers like Dalman here say Canada is an
“important trading partner. "That's NPR's Kirk Sickler reporting. You're listening to NPR news."”
North Carolina defensive coordinator Steve Bellachek, the son of head coach Bill Bellachek, has resigned as the school carries out an investigation into the football program. The school has said certain actions demonstrated a disregard for Caroline's values and standards of conduct, but it did not provide specifics of its findings. The investigation was launched in late July. In a statement today, the school says Steve Bellachek would formally resign at the conclusion
of a medical leave late next month. The nominations are out for this year's Latin Grammys and PR's Isabella Gomez Admito reports. In Latin America, folkloric music is currently all the rage and the Latin Grammys have taken notice. Whether it's the Argentinian roots music championed by 19-year-old rapper Milo Hota on his album "La Vida Ramascorta" or the deeply evocative folk of Mexican singer-songwriter Sivana Estrada's album "Vindran Soaviz Juías".
Almost all of this year's album of the year nominees, feature traditional rhythms, arrangements and instruments. At a time when Latin pop is a global force, individual artists are reaching home for inspiration. The Latin Grammys ceremony will take place in Las Vegas in November. Isabella Gomez Armiento and PR News. Today the Labor Department reports that unemployment benefits
drop sharply last week. It's NPR News. Up first from NPR News is your way to slow down a fast-moving
world and make sense of it, which is just what tech leaders say they need right now. One of the big stories this week is that tech leaders say they want to slow down AI development. Also, the latest fighting in the Middle East could push oil prices even higher. Start your day with what you need to know. On up first, listen. On the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
