Morning briefing Thursday 10th September

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up, so how the business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PWC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concepts to competitive edge. PWC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands, so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at PWC.co.uk This is Times Radio's morning briefing on Thursday 10th of September. Nigel Farage faces the prospects of being interviewed by a detective investigating allegations that two of his key allies solicited illegal foreign donations for reform UK. The party's leader may be questioned as a witness after he was secretly filmed by Channel 4 News, being told of the plans who funnel illegal U.S. donations via a UK citizen. The Times Fraser Nelson, however, says the police

1:03shouldn't be brought into such matters in the first place. A spokesperson for Reform UK says the party will fully cooperate with the investigation. Pretend I'm on the ballast. That was the message from President Trump to Republicans during the first ever convention by either of the two main parties ahead of a U.S. midterm election. Trump was addressing his supporters in Dallas, where his aim was to galvanise the party ahead of November's ballast. The midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president, and we're going to change that. And we really have 35 races. They all count, but we have 35 races that are, I guess you'd call, the swings, right? We can win every one of those races, but I'm going to go to every one of those states for congressmen

2:08and for senators. Flight disruption that caused chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers is expected to ease further today. Technical issues with air traffic control systems have resulted in more than 2000 UK flights being cancelled since Tuesday. Flight schedules are expected to return to normal before the weekend, although Martin Rolf, the chief executive of National Air Traffic Services, is facing calls from many within the airline industry to resign. A former chief secretary of the Prime Minister is warning that governments and parliament around the world must take safety warnings about superintelligent AI seriously, following claims by experts of a risk to humanity. It's after a British researcher who'd spent three years working at Anthropic and other AI companies, quit the industry because he claimed they are gambling with people's lives and human existence. Down in Jones, who was chief secretary to Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street, has written an open letter to Andy Burnham and the United Nations, calling for a multinational

3:10treaty for AI's safe development. It's not just one person that left Anthropic. Anthropic themselves have been saying this for a while, open AI, had a recent example. We can see this is starting to happen now, and that's why our institutions of government and parliament around the world need to move quickly in order to make sure that we're ahead of it, in case the whistle blowing stories were hearing are true. And hands-on work experience for every student is passed a new pledge by universities to increase graduate employment. The body that represents Vice-Chancellor said 1.4 million students a year were expected to benefit from the programme as part of their degree by 2035. There's more on all of these stories throughout the day on Times Radio. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PWC. AI is everywhere. In the news, in our hands, but return an investment? Not so much. So how do you get beyond the hype

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