NPR News: 03-25-2026 3PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. A jury in Los Angeles has found that meta and Google are to blame for the depression and anxiety of a woman who compulsively use social media as a small child. As NPR's Bobby Allen explains, it is the second major verdict this week in landmark social media trials. A jury has awarded a woman $3 million for mental health struggles that developed after compulsive use of YouTube and Instagram. In a drama-long trial, a jury found that meta and Google deliberately designed social media platforms to addict young people. The verdict comes a day after a separate jury in New Mexico ordered meta to pay $375 million for failing to protect kids and teens from child predators on its platforms. The Los Angeles jury found that meta and Google acted with malice, which means the case now moves to the punitive stage, where the amount of damages could be far more. Google and meta are vowing to fight the verdicts, which are the first-ever judgments against the social media industry over the harms of its platforms.

1:00Bobby Allen and PR News, Los Angeles. The White House says President Trump's postponing his trip to China by more than a month to mid-May and plans to host President Xi Jinping later this year. Press Secretary Caroline Levin announced a change of short time ago at a news briefing where she fielded questions about the Iran War. She was asked about Iranian state media reporting that the U.S. put forward a 15-point plan to end the conflict and that Iran rejected it. Levitz's talks are ongoing, but the White House never confirmed that full plan. There are elements of truth to it, but some of the stories I read were not entirely factual. However, President Trump had referenced a 15-point plan earlier this week. Iran's continued refusal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz is intensifying concerns about global energy supplies and what that could mean for food prices in the U.S. specifically. As NPR's Windsor John St. tells us, economists say, consumers may not feel it right away, but some grocery items could be hit sooner than others. Higher fuel and fertilizer costs are expected to ripple through the food supply chain, but

2:02not all at once. David Ortega is an economist at Michigan State University. He says energy prices are one of the biggest drivers, especially when it comes to transportation. So what we're going to first start to see this show up are on the perishable food items. So think specialty produce, dairy products, meat products that have to be refrigerated. So refrigerated trucking uses up a lot more energy. Ortega says there's often a lag of several months between rising input costs and higher prices at the grocery store, meaning shoppers may not feel the full impact until later this year. Windsor Johnston and PR News. U.S. stocks continue to trade higher this afternoon. The Dow Jones industrial average now up 266 points more than half a percent at 46,390. The S&P's risen 27 points the NAS back is up more than 100 points. You're listening to NPR News. The U.S. Supreme Court is unanimously siding with Cox Communications.

3:06In the Internet Service, providers defense against the allegation that it is liable for copyright violations by Cox customers. In a lawsuit led by Sony Music Entertainment, record labels alleged Cox facilitated the theft and failed to do more to prevent customers from downloading copyright abusing for free. However, according to an opinion written by Justice Claris Thomas, the Supreme Court says Cox neither induced its users infringement nor provided a service tailored to infringement. Artificial intelligence company OpenAI and the Disney company are ending a partnership. It would have let fans create their own AI video content based on movies such as Star Wars and PR's Chloe Veltman reports this comes after OpenAI announced its closing down its video AI tool Sora. In a statement to NPR, OpenAI said its Sora research team will focus on advancing robotics to help solve real world physical tasks. Disney's statement, meanwhile, said it respects OpenAI's decision and that it will continue

4:07to engage with AI platforms in ways that respect intellectual property. Disney's former CEO, Bob Iger, first hinted at plans to enable AI-based fan content last November on an earnings call. AI is going to give us the ability to provide users of Disney Plus with a much more engaged experience, including the ability for them to create user-generated content. Disney had plans to invest $1 billion in OpenAI in a landmark three-year licensing deal last December. That's Chloe Veltman reporting, it's NPR. Listen to this podcast sponsor-free on Amazon Music with a Prime Membership or any podcast app by subscribing to NPR News Now Plus at plus.npr.org, that's plus.npr.org.