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WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

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🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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A.M. Edition for May 5. The Trump administration is weighing a new government-review process for AI tools that could pose cybersecurity risks, in response to Anthropic’s powerful Mythos model. Plus, oil prices are slipping even as fresh attacks from Iran risk a further escalation in the war. But those higher fuel prices have already made their mark, pushing some U.S. airline ticket prices up 50%. And older Americans are sitting on $110 trillion of wealth. WSJ reporter Rachel Louise Ensign says they’re also living longer, meaning “the great wealth transfer” isn’t happening anytime soon. Daniel Bach hosts. Sign up for the WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.7	Airfares for U.S. flight skyrocket as the Iran War takes its toll. Plus, the White House considers whether
0:39.3	new AI models pose a national security risk. And tough luck if you're a millennial waiting for a big
0:45.6	payout from mom and pop. Americans over 55 control most wealth. And, you know, a lot of those folks
0:52.2	could have decades left to live. So this idea
0:55.1	that there's going to be this massive windfall for younger Americans is something that is just
1:00.9	not really happening in mass yet. It's Tuesday, May 5th. I'm Daniel Bach for the Wall Street
1:07.0	Journal filling in for Luke Vargas. And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top
1:11.6	headlines, and business stories moving your world today. The U.S. and Iran are teetering on the
1:18.5	edge of a new dangerous phase of the war, with both countries returning to military force to
1:23.6	try to break the standoff in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has fired at U.S. warships trying to revive commercial shipping in the strait,
1:31.2	testing President Trump's desire to end the war. U.S. officials say Trump has been weighing two
1:36.4	competing impulses for days, whether to order a new round of airstrikes to punish Iran for
1:41.8	failing to abandon its nuclear ambitions or leaning into a
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