NPR News: 09-14-2026 1PM EDT

0:00Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Despite the newest warnings about artificial intelligence, President Trump's demanding full speed ahead with AI and data centers on social media, Trump points to U.S. competition from China in declaring, quote, whoever wins AI wins. But as NPR's John Ruich tells us, some of the major executives who've helped drive public access to AI are saying it is time to pump the brakes. It started when Dario Amade, the CEO of Anthropic, which makes Claude AI, posted a long essay online that said it's time for an intentional global slowdown of AI development. He said basically the pace at which AI is advancing is becoming too fast for people to keep up with it and keep it safe. So it needs to slow down and he said companies like his need to have independent auditors embedded within them to check their safety measures. After that post went up online, there was this rapid and extraordinary display of unity from other industry leaders. So Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, Elon Musk, who among other things runs XAI and Dema

1:03Sasabas, who runs Google's AI efforts, they all agreed online. NPR's John Ruich, a coalition of cities including New York, Chicago, and Seattle filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over a new rule that would deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use government benefits. Here's NPR's Jasmine Gars. The New York charge has been part of US immigration law for over a century. It lets an immigration official deny a green card or visa to someone believed likely to depend on government benefits for survival. In early September, Homeland Security redefined that guidance. Whether or not someone will use Medicaid, food stamps, or even college financial aid will factor into deciding if an applicant might become a public charge. That guidance takes effect September 18th and would especially affect people applying for visas or trying to adjust their immigration status within the US. That's NPR's Jasmine Gars reporting. Ukraine says a Russian drone hit a Ukrainian train near the border with Poland over the weekend,

2:04latest from NPR's John Gakissis. In a statement, Ukrainian railways said former CIA director David Petraeus was at a station near the Polish border when the Russian drone hit the passenger train. A Ukrainian media outlet posted this video showing the station at the moment of the strike, terrified passengers ran as smoke billowed in the distance. No casualties were reported. Ukrainian railways said it was, quote, highly probable that the Russian drones intended target was another train that had purposely left hours earlier ahead of schedule. European politicians, including former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, were aboard the train. Joanna Gakissis, NPR News, KF. US stocks trading lower the sour with the Dow now down 68. You're listening to NPR News. Last night, a federal judge ordered the US Postal Service not to carry out President Trump's

3:06executive order on mail-in voting restrictions. In issuing a preliminary injunction, US District Judge Karl Nichols in Washington, DC, said, quote, plaintiffs have demonstrated that absent and injunction there is an increased risk that significant number of otherwise appropriate absentee or mail-in ballots will ultimately not be counted in the upcoming elections. The US Supreme Court is considering the administration's appeal of a similar ruling out of Boston. The Los Angeles Clippers have reversed course and now say they will not fight the punishment from the NBA for what the league says was a scheme to circumvent the salary cap to pay a star player. The team is set to lose five years worth of first round draft picks. Here's NPR's Becky Sullivan. The NBA accused the Clippers of helping to arrange sham endorsement deals with four companies to pay millions of extra dollars to their star-forward, Kauai Leonard, out of view of the salary cap. The punishment is severe. Owners Steve Balmer and another team executive are suspended for a year.

4:10They were fined $30 million and the biggest setback is the loss of five years worth of first round draft picks starting in 2029. At first, the team and its lawyers called the finding, quote, a witch hunt and vowed to fight the punishment. Now, Balmer says he accepts responsibility. An statement posted on social media, Balmer wrote that the team had told the NBA that, quote, we are complying with the penalties assessed by the league have paid the fine and are moving forward. The legend and P.R. News. I'm Lakshmi Singh, NPR News. The Lindsey Clancy trials shined a light on how little we know about postpartum psychosis. I went sort of from feeling a little off all day to suddenly believing people were watching me. On the Sunday story, how the Clancy trials sparked a new conversation about maternal mental health. This is now to the Sunday story from the Up First Podcast on the NPR app.