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0:00This message comes from Capital One Commercial Bank. Access comprehensive solutions from a top commercial bank that prioritizes your needs today and goals for tomorrow. Learn more at capital.1 slash commercial. Remember FDIC. Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. President Trump is downplaying calls by leaders of the artificial intelligence industry for a slowdown in AI development. Instead, Trump is claiming that warnings about AI are exaggerated. Over the weekend, the head of anthropic issued a long essay calling for the slowdown. He was joined in that call by other AI leaders. NPR's John Ruich says they're all responding to researchers' warnings about AI. There's been this string of incidents that have spooked a lot of people, a lot of the top minds in AI. A big one was the so-called hugging-face incident. That's when a bunch of open AI's AI programs, agents, were working together in secret behind the backs of people and eventually hacked into a startup

1:00called Hugging Face. That was not what they had been told to do. Other companies have also reported similar incidents of AI agents going off script. You know, the ultimate fear here is that humans lose control of AI. NPR's John Ruich reporting. Stocks opened lower this morning as energy prices continue to climb. NPR's God Horsley reports the Dow Jones industrial average fell about 100 points in early trading. Crude oil deliveries from the Middle East are facing new roadblocks after Saudi Arabia shut down a major pipeline and Iran-backed Houthi rebels tightened their grip on another key shipping route from the Red Sea. Triple A says retail gasoline prices in the U.S. have jumped 16 cents a gallon in the last week. Diesel prices have jumped 33 cents to a record high of $6.23 a gallon. Hundreds of global business leaders are gathered in Toronto this week for a summit aimed at boosting investment in Canada, that country seeking new trading partners emitted ongoing trade battle with the United States. And Amazon says it's suspending its use of cargo planes from the

2:0221 air company after last week's deadly crash in Miami. It's God Horsley in Pair News, Washington. A federal judge in Washington, DC, has blocked a U.S. Postal Service plan for President Trump's attempt to restrict mail-in voting for the midterm elections. As NPR's Hansel O'Wong reports, the U.S. Supreme Court is still reviewing an earlier, lower court ruling that blocks key parts of Trump's plan. This latest ruling is by U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a nominee of President Trump. Nichols found the U.S. Postal Service has no authority to refuse to deliver mail-in ballots to voters in states where election officials do not turn over voter lists to the mailing agency and do not have certain barcodes in their ballot envelopes. We should know U.S.PS is a financial support of NPR. The Supreme Court has been reviewing a similar order by a federal judge in Boston, and the high court may issue its ruling at any time. If a majority of the justices allowed the U.S.PS plan to move ahead, many election officials are worried about major disruptions to mail-in voting that's underway in some states. Many disabled

3:03voters and those living in places without polling sites are also at risk of losing the ability to exercise their right to vote. Hansel O'Wong and Pair News. You're listening to NPR News from Washington. Russian drones hit Western Ukraine yesterday near a rail line on the border with Poland. They fell close to the train where former CIA director David Petraeus was. He safely evacuated, a train with European leaders inside had passed through about an hour earlier. During a trip to Ireland this weekend, President Trump said he would like to see the independent country unify with Northern Ireland, which is governed by the British. That's created rare common ground between Trump and the left-wing Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein. It began as the political arm of the Irish Republican Army or IRA. The militant group fought for Irish unification. And Pair's Lauren Frey reports from London. Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill was asked about President Trump's comment on Irish reunification.

4:06I just think it really underlines where we're at and it remains everybody that this is a bit that needs to be hard. She spoke to reporters alongside the leaders of Wales and Scotland, which are also governed by separatist parties. Together they're calling for constitutional change. Sinn Fein wants a referendum on Northern Ireland leaving the UK and joining the Republic of Ireland. But the British government has said any such vote is off the table. The idea of Irish reunification fueled what was known as the troubles, decades of deadly Catholic Protestant fighting in Northern Ireland. The region's status is laid out in the 1998 Good Friday Peace Agreement, which ended that fighting. Lauren Freyer and Pair News London. Forecasters say it'll be hot today from southern Indiana down to the Texas Gulf coast. Forecasters have issued heat advisories. This is NPR. This message comes from IXL, a learning platform for helping kids build confidence and get up to speed fast. One subscription covers math, science, and reading for all children in a household. Receive 20% off at ixl.com slash NPR.