NPR News: 09-12-2026 1PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. And Thropic CEO Dario Amode is calling on the AI industry to slow down. Imperial Shannon Bond reports, concerns are growing that developers are racing toward building AI that humans can't control. In a new essay, Amode says AI companies should deliberately slow the pace at which they improve their models' capabilities because the technology is advancing so quickly. He says he's worried about a recent incident where rival open AI's agents went rogue and hacked another company. Amode says labs need to embed third-party evaluators to report incidents and track safety practices and that Anthropic will do so. He's also calling for international cooperation around AI development. Public warnings about AI safety are mounting after the recent resignation of an Anthropic researcher who warned the AI industry is not acting responsibly. Shannon Bond and Pairnese. And Anthropic is a financial supporter of NPR.

1:00President Trump is in Ireland today where he's mixing a bit of diplomacy into a golf trip. If yours Franco or Donia's reports, the friendly visit hints at the kind of a relationship Trump would like to have with the rest of Europe. When he met with the Irish T-Shock and we hail Martin, President Trump boasted that the relationship with Ireland has never been as good as it is right now. But later in the day, Trump made clear that his opinions are very different about other European leaders who turned him down when it came to helping with Iran. No would the Rutherlock get involved, Mr. President? Oh, thank you very much. You know, but I put it down because why the hell are we helping them? Ireland may be a small country, but given its military neutrality, it has been able to avoid some of the tensions that Trump has had with NATO allies over burden sharing and support for the US. Franco, Ordonia's, NPR News, Dunebag, Ireland. President Trump this week promised the gas prices will come down after the midterm elections.

2:02And here's Windsor Johnston reports, he blames the US war with Iran for the increase, but he hasn't explained what would bring the costs down. Americans are feeling the effects even if they're not filling up at the pump. Diesel powers the machinery used to grow food and move goods across the country. And that cost keeps climbing. The national average for diesel has reached another record high, $6.16 a gallon. Starting to Tribal A, that's up more than $0.10 since Friday and nearly $2.46 from a year ago. Windsor Johnston, NPR News. And you're listening to NPR News from Washington. North Korea has launched multiple missiles into the sea following US, South Korean,

3:06and Japanese joint military exercises. NPR's Anthony Cune reports it's the fourth such launch since early last month. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, say the short-range ballistic missiles, were launched from the East Coast town of Wonsan and flew eastward some 250 miles into the sea. South Korea's National Security Office held an emergency meeting to discuss the launch and criticized it as a violation of UN Security Council resolutions. The launch comes a day after the US, South Korea, and Japan wrapped up joint drills, which North Korea called provocative and warned would trigger unspecified countermeasures. Last month, President Trump ordered US South Korean joint drills shortened in an apparent attempt to restart diplomacy with North Korea, but Pyongyang dismissed the move as insufficient. Anthony Cune in P.R. News sold. The Atlantic hurricane season is unusually quiet this year, and as of today, it's the longest start to a season in the Atlantic, without a hurricane, since a satellite era began,

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