'Project Freedom' paused | Google AI workers worried about military uses | End of morning airport pint?
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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Summary
It looks like Donald Trump has blinked first in the standoff between the US and Iran as he has announced he will be pausing "Project Freedom".
He added in a post on Truth Social, his social media site, that the decision came at the request of Pakistan and other nations.
Hate crimes will be fast-tracked when it comes to prosecutions in England and Wales in an effort to deal with the spike in antisemitism.
The cruise ship at the centre of an outbreak of hantavirus will set sail to the Canary Islands.
There are reported to be "scores" of workers at Google DeepMind who insist their technology shouldn't be used to make "genocide cheaper, faster and more efficient".
And finally, Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has called for a ban on alcohol being served before morning flights, in an effort to deal with bad passenger behaviour.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:05.0 | President Trump will pause Project Freedom in an attempt to kickstart negotiations with Iran. |
| 0:18.0 | Will they lead to anything? |
| 0:20.0 | Hate crime prosecutions will be fast-tracked in an attempt to deal with anti-Semitism. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news on Wednesday, the 6th of May. |
| 0:32.7 | I'm Wilfred Frost. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Sophie Ridge. Also today, could Wilf's beloved airport pints be in danger after the Ryan Air Boss calls for a ban? |
| 0:41.1 | So it looks like President Trump has blink first in the standoff between the US and Iran. As he's announced, he's going to be pausing Project Freedom. |
| 0:51.5 | Now, Project Freedom, of course, is the name he gave to those attempts by the US |
| 0:55.7 | to shepherd ships through the Strait of Pormuz. He said it's going to be paused to see if they can |
| 1:00.4 | manage to get an agreement with Iran over the line instead. What I'd say in the last 48 hours, |
| 1:06.9 | if we expanded that way, is you've seen some very worrying actions in the region and the |
| 1:13.6 | straight specifically you know including some ships being hit and the UAE being targeted again by |
| 1:19.7 | Iran and now some I'd say unbelievably encouraging rhetoric albeit we all know how hard it is to put the genie back in the bottle |
| 1:28.9 | with this particular conflict. But I actually point to a press conference that Marco Rubio, |
| 1:34.1 | the Secretary of State gave yesterday. We talk about all this project freedom being paused. |
| 1:40.4 | I think the most striking thing from that was he said unequivocally, Project Epic Fury is over. |
| 1:46.9 | He said the offensive part of this war is over. |
| 1:50.5 | They're pausing Project Freedom, which he frames is the defensive part. |
| 1:55.6 | But either way, to draw a line under the offensive part, at least stating their intention to do that, |
| 2:04.5 | I think is very, very significant. |
| 2:06.7 | By the way, as part of this, they're also now seeking UN approval for the defensive part in their eyes, |
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