NPR (Stephan Bisaha) - A town renamed its festival 'AI Love Irondale Day.' Then came the comments
The online outcry over the renaming of a summer festival illustrates the unease over the data center boom in the South.
NPR (Meg Anderson) - After deadly shootings, police experts question how well ICE officers are vetted
The recent fatal shootings by ICE officers in Texas and Maine come at a time when the federal agency has hired a huge number of officers quickly. Some law enforcement experts worry that this kind of a hiring spree can lead police agencies to cut corners in vetting new hires.
NPR (Joel Rose) - DOT cranks up its campaign to strip bike lane references from federal websites
Transportation officials have removed a growing list of safety materials that mention bike lanes from federal websites. Safety advocates warn that's undermining proven measures for reducing crashes.
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NPR (Joe Hernandez) - The White House pushes healthy eating. It cut a landmark nutrition education program
Nutrition advocates and public health experts are mystified by the decision to eliminate SNAP-Ed, given the Trump administration's embrace of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.
NPR (Rahul Mukherjee) - How predominantly Black areas in 6 states have been split up by redistricting
These maps show that the redistricting battle President Trump initiated has so far had a particular impact on largely Black congressional districts in Republican-led states.
NPR (Adora Namigadde) - These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: helping clergy abuse survivors
Sisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse.
AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - OpenAI's Hugging Face breach exposes AI's next safety challenge
Frontier AI models are getting scary good at breaking rules in ways their creators didn't anticipate. Why it matters: Forget AGI and superintelligence timelines. Today's models are already slipping past guardrails, carrying out sophisticated, multistep cyberattacks and — in at least one case — compromising real-world infrastructure, sometimes before their creators know what happened. Case in point: OpenAI said Tuesday that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" carried out last week's AI-led cyberattack on Hugging Face. - OpenAI says its models were asked to solve a hacking challenge during pre-deployment testing and went to extreme lengths to win. - The models decided on their own to break out of their walled…
NPR (A Martínez) - Morning news brief
Trump administration signs nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, Trump ramps up aggression against Iran despite declining support, House passes Pentagon funding bill.
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NYTIMES (Trish Bendix) - Late Night Rags on Trump and His Cabinet Joining TikTok
“Right now TikTok is, like, ‘Oh, no, are we the new Facebook?’” Jimmy Fallon said on “The Tonight Show.”
NPR (The Associated Press) - OpenAI blamed a hacking event on its AI models gone rogue. Here is what to know
The incident is stirring debates over the need for stronger AI guardrails and the extent to which AI agents are capable of acting on their own.
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