As AI permeates every aspect of our lives, who are the people behind this huge inflection point?

What keeps them up at night?

I fear that what it means to be human may suddenly not be our own.

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President Trump is suing the Wall Street Journal and its owner Rupert Murdoch for more than $10 billion.

He says the paper defamed him by publishing a story that he sent a

sensually suggestive birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein, the disgrace for nine-seer, more than 20

years ago. The paper is standing by the story. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is now seeking

the release of some grand jury transcripts in the Epstein's sexual trafficking case.

NPR's Ryan Lucas reports this story is not going away. Trump himself, of course, did say during the

campaign that he was in favor of releasing Epstein's purported client list. And once he was back in

office, his attorney general, Pam Bondi, promised transparency on this. She hyped the release of a

first batch of Epstein files

in February. Everything in that batch, by and large, turned out to already have been known.

She took some heat over that. But Bondi's own public statements have certainly contributed to the

blowback that we've seen. NPR's Ryan Lucas, Los Angeles police are trying to determine

what led a man to slam his car into a

crowd outside an East Hollywood nightclub early this morning. Steve Butterman reports.

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