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P.M. Edition for Feb. 24. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a meeting today that the company has until Friday to comply with the Pentagon’s demands on using its artificial-intelligence models, or Anthropic’s contract may be canceled. Plus, Meta and AMD announce a chip deal worth $100 billion. Journal reporter Robbie Whelan discusses what the deal entails, and why it’s got investors excited. And, in an exclusive, we’re reporting that the Trump administration is considering requiring banks to collect citizenship information from customers. Alex Ossola hosts.
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Plus: Stripe sees more successful and high-growth businesses join its platform as AI coding tools continue to advance. And China’s BYD sees blockbuster sales growth in Europe. Julie Chang hosts.
President Trump has spent much of the past year trying to pump up international investment in U.S. factories. He's promised to bring back jobs that have moved overseas. WSJ’s Gavin Bade investigates a Chinese automotive glass plant in the Ohio heartland and explores the risks when America’s biggest rival sets up shop. Jessica Mendoza hosts.
Despite a supposed personnel drawdown, the Department of Homeland Security is calling its ICE rollout in Minnesota the largest immigration operation ever.
It has been four years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting a war the Kremlin believed would end in a matter of days with Ukraine capitulating. Now after years of death and destruction, the war grinds on with no end in sight as U.S.-sponsored peace talks appear to be at an impasse. NPR has correspondents in both Kyiv and Moscow and we hear from them about how both countries view the conflict now.
The world's most powerful has numerous policies regarding equality -- but how do the policies on paper translate to action? In today's episode, the gang dives into the all-too-often unexplored, ongoing conspiracy taking place within the US Armed Forces: supremacists and separatists are infiltrating the military, often with the active goal of later using their training and expertise to wage war against the very nation they were sworn to protect.
Apart from all the lies MAGA is forced to say in defense of Donald Trump, the movement is actually better at political organizing than Democrats. So while the Dems can pull off the massive No Kings rallies, the protests are just one day and the energy can fizzle away. But MAGA is really focused on turning out the vote so they can win. And they got the idea from the big tent campaign tactics that Obama deployed in 2008 and 2012. Plus, some advice on how Dem candidates can turn their communications into a superpower—like stop proposing solutions when voters are mad and just want to vent.