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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Sunday urged the president to be "radically honest" when he's speaking about vaccines, as the U.S. this year has recorded the most measles cases in more than three decades.
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Amid backlash over the rapid expansion of data centers across the U.S., Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the tech industry should have engaged communities sooner.
“We’re sorry we didn’t come talk to you sooner,” Huang tells CBS News’ Jo Ling Kent, saying “all of this happened so quickly.” He adds that data centers are “improving tremendously and tremendously quickly.”
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GOP Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida said on Sunday that she urged President Trump to "preserve that fortune that you have brought to the party" with support from Hispanic voters, after warning in a campaign ad that his immigration enforcement policy has "gone too far."
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Thousands of protesters converged on the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. last week for a demonstration sparked by concerns that the Trump administration may soon demolish the performing arts landmark. Others joined by boat, holding up signs from kayaks in the adjacent Potomac River.
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Ahead of attending a state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls for the U.S. and China to work together to potentially set global standards for AI.
“As they advance the technology, we have to make sure that we work with each other as much as we can, as much as we can,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent.
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When asked about President Trump characterizing fears around AI as “a hoax,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says “however it's characterized,” there is a “0% chance” the world will end by 2030 because of AI.
“I think that scaring people is unnecessary. It is irresponsible,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent. Huang also says he agrees with the president that existing regulations should be applied rather than adding new ones.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says U.S. tech companies should advance AI “as fast as we can” while ensuring safety isn’t compromised as it competes with China. “I have every confidence” that AI companies have the incentives and capabilities to develop the technology “in a way that’s safe to society,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang rejects warnings that artificial intelligence could pose an existential threat to humanity in the near future, calling that narrative “completely false” and “not grounded on science.”
“All the messaging around the drama of it is unnecessary,” Huang tells CBS News’ @jolingkent. But he adds that underlying concerns about AI safety are “not wrong.”
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back on warnings that artificial intelligence could soon pose an existential threat to humanity if left unchecked, arguing instead for accelerating the technology’s development.
Huang, whose company makes the chips powering many of the world’s leading AI systems, speaks with CBS News’ @jolingkent about the debate over AI’s risks.
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As the debate over the direction and future of AI intensifies, a new CBS poll shows 55% of Americans say artificial intelligence companies should stop or slow down the development of the technology, while 44% say we should keep the current pace or speed up.
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President Trump said his planned 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery will now serve as a military complex equipped with drones, sniper positions and ammunition storage. He said Sunday the change came “at the strong request of the United States Military.”
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The hundreds of thousands of dollars gifted to President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., by a Russian oligarch as a wedding gift “shouldn’t have been done in the first place,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) says, adding that “anytime someone gives a $250,000 gift and they have strong ties to the Kremlin, that's wrong.”
“And even though…it might be a gift, the appearance of it is really bad,” he tells @margbrennan. “And so, I'm glad it's been repaid. It would be nice to have that kind of verified.”
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President Trump’s plan to give every American adult a $5,000 “dividend” if Republicans win the midterm elections is “absolutely inflationary,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) says.
“If Joe Biden had proposed that, conservatives would have been all against it. And I say that because if the government borrows money, it's going to drive up how much somebody pays for their mortgage, for their car note, perhaps for their credit card," he says.
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Former Trump economic adviser and IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn says he was “not at all” surprised by the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates last week as it confronts persistent inflation, despite signs of strength in the economy and job market.
Fed Chair Kevin Warsh “has made it very clear, very clear, that he is going to fight inflation,” Cohn tells @margbrennan.
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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) says President Trump’s pick for U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Nicole Saphier “did earn my vote,” but says if FDA commissioner nominee Dr. Heidi Overton wants to earn his vote, she needs to understand “that calling the measles vaccines lethal is absurd.”
“We should have a common voice of radical honesty, of trying to help the American people understand what is safe,” he says. “And if the president calls it lethal, then where are you getting your information, Mr. President? And if you really don't have it, why are you willing to risk the lives of fellow Americans?”
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As high energy prices spark protests around the world, IBM Vice Chairman Gary Cohn says rising fuel costs are also weighing heavily on American consumers, with higher diesel prices impacting the economy through farming and transportation.
“The consumer sentiment has turned quite negative,” Cohn tells @margbrennan, pointing to high prices and uncertainty surrounding AI and the job market as factors fueling Americans’ economic concerns.
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says he “raised the issue” of wrongfully detained U.S. citizens to China in his last visit, and called the detention of U.S. citizen Min Zin by China “appalling” and “unacceptable.”
Zin, a University of California-Berkeley scholar, is a constituent of Khanna who was charged by the Chinese with “endangering national security,” and the congressman says “we cannot have American citizens or scholars in America be detained or disappeared because of what they say.”
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“We need to set up an AI agency, like the FDA,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) proposes, saying “this can be regulated like we regulate nuclear energy, electricity [and] aviation.”
“One of the things that really annoys me is when you have these tech CEOs out there saying, ‘Oh, this is too complicated, people in Washington don't understand this.’ Give me a break. We have regulated very complex things,” he says.
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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says a potential AI safety agreement between China and the U.S. should focus on “banning any self-improving AI” and “have safeguards so that AI can't be misused by people for biological nuclear weapons.”
“That needs to be the first agenda item on the Trump-Xi Jinping summit,” he tells @margbrennan.
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Ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington, D.C. this week, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says President Trump needs to make “an international agreement with Xi Jinping to have basic standards” on artificial intelligence as concerns about the technology’s safety rise.
Khanna, the top Democrat on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, proposed Chinese AI firms cooperate with U.S. companies on safety, but says “the Chinese firms have taken no actions on either of them.”
“They're engaging in distillation,” he says. “Basically, they are copying American models. That's one reason, frankly, to regulate American models, because they're copying them.”
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