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Top AI leaders to meet with Trump at White House amid dire warnings about technology

September 29, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Leaders of top artificial intelligence companies are set to attend a lunch meeting with President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson at the White House on Tuesday amid growing fears about the threat of the rapidly innovating technology.

The meeting comes as AI leaders are issuing dire warnings about the threat of AI and calling for steps to slow it down before it outsmarts humans. Following those warnings, lawmakers are weighing what — if any — action should be taken.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg will attend the meeting, a source familiar confirmed to ABC News. Another source familiar said that Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic will also attend. And Google CEO Sundar Pichai will also attend, a Google spokesperson confirmed to ABC News. Jensen Huang from Nvidia and Alex Karl from Palantir are also expected to attend, ABC News has confirmed.

Zuckerberg has pushed back on calls from other tech leaders to collectively slow down AI, saying “every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely.”

The meeting will also include other tech leaders.

This won’t be the first time that top tech leaders have met with Trump on the issue. The Meta CEO also attended the state dinner at the White House for Chinese President Xi Jinping last week, along with the CEOs of OpenAI, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, AMD, SpaceX and executives from Amazon and Apple. Amodei also had dinner with Trump late on Sunday night.’

The president has said that the warnings about the technology and calls to slow down AI development are a “hoax.”

“AI taking over the World, destroying Humanity, and all other things bad, is a HOAX[…],” Trump said in a social media post in mid-September, before comparing the warnings to his impeachments.

The president has made clear that he does not believe in regulating the technology. Just last week while addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Trump said the U.S. “rejects” a global attempt to regulate AI.

Johnson told reporters two weeks ago about the meeting, saying there would be “a deliberate discussion about the responsibility of the companies to maintain safety, and what role, if any, the government has to play in that.”

While Johnson called on the companies to “self-regulate,” he also also stressed that the U.S. should not lose its competitive edge in the space.

“We cannot have a moratorium on the development of AI, because then we will lose our edge to China, and that has serious national security implications for,” Johnson said.

On Monday, Johnson said the the fears of the threat of AI is a Chinese psychological operation and are politically motivated.

“This is what Democrats do. They glom on to something and say, ‘This is doom and gloom and everyone will die if we don’t win,'” he told Fox Business. “Don’t buy it. It is a Chinese psyop.”

The White House has not responded to ABC News when asked about the meeting.

Sylvester Stallone defends his empire in ‘Tulsa King’ season 4 trailer

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Sylvester Stallone is back as Tulsa King.

A new trailer for the show’s fourth season has been released, showing Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi as he fights to save his empire from new threats.

“Each move drags Dwight deeper into the street instincts he left behind in New York – turning Tulsa into a battleground and Dwight into the one threat no one can afford to underestimate,” reads the season’s official description.

Season 4 also stars Martin Starr, Jay Will, Vincent Piazza, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Caldovino, McKenna Quigley Harrington, Frank Grillo, Neal McDonough, Garrett Hedlund and Dana Delany. Gretchen Mol joins the cast as a series regular.

Tulsa King returns to Paramount+ on Oct. 16.

Stallone releases his new memoir, The Steps, on Sept. 29. Ahead of the book release, he sat down for an interview with The New York Times’ The Interview podcast where he reflects on his tumultuous childhood and rise to fame, as well as his struggles with an eating disorder while he was filming Rocky III.

Lindsay Lohan to star with Henry Golding in Netflix romance ‘Return to You’

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Here’s some totally fetch news.

Lindsay Lohan is set to reunite with her Mean Girls and Freaky Friday director Mark Waters for a new romance film at Netflix. Lohan will star opposite Henry Golding in the upcoming movie titled Return to You.

The upcoming movie is set in the year 2008. It follows “a powerful but lonely attorney” who “receives a very emotional DVD from a dying woman addressed to her husband. Guided only by the clues on the disc, she sets out to find him,” according to its official logline.

Return to You is currently in production, Netflix revealed on Monday in an Instagram post it collaborated on with Lohan.

“Lindsay Lohan and Henry Golding star in RETURN TO YOU, now in production!” the picture’s caption reads.

The photo features Lohan taking a selfie while holding up the script for Return to You.

Eric Champnella wrote the film that Lohan is producing alongside Brad Krevoy. Krevoy previously produced two other Netflix films that Lohan starred in: Falling for Christmas and Irish Wish.

US officials deny there are plans to sell weapons to China

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(WASHINGTON) — Trump administration officials said on Monday that the United States has no plans to sell weapons to China after U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue indicated during a televised interview that President Donald Trump offered a weapons deal to China’s Xi Jinping during a high-profile summit last week.

“President Trump continues to say, ‘Hey, we sell arms to other people around the world,'” Perdue said Sunday during an appearance on Fox News. “He actually asked President Xi would he like to buy some at one point.”

Perdue did not provide further details about the offer, and he did not reveal Xi’s response.

A U.S. official denied there were plans to sell weapons to China.

“The U.S. government has no plans to sell weapons to China,” the official said to ABC News on Monday.

The State Department also denied a potential sale, saying in a statement to ABC News that “U.S. law prohibits arms sales to China and there is no offer or plan to sell arms to China.”

Asked about Perdue’s comments in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump said he “didn’t discuss it” with Xi, suggesting he meant Taiwan instead of China.

“I never heard of that one. I’m going to have to ask him. You mean we’re going to sell? Now they’d probably like to buy it because we do make better equipment than them. So maybe it’s a good idea. Yeah, but, we didn’t discuss it,” Trump said, later adding “I think he probably was talking about Taiwan.”

A U.S. weapons sale offer to China would be extraordinary, as China is viewed as the primary strategic and economic competitor of the U.S. and is designated as a foreign adversary. The U.S. has placed extensive economic sanctions on China, including economic restrictions, investment bans and contract limits on companies, groups and schools tied to the Chinese military.

The two geopolitical rivals are also competing in the race to develop advanced artificial intelligence and have opposing views over Taiwanese sovereignty.

And in recent weeks, Beijing has come under scrutiny for allegedly providing another U.S. adversary — Iran — with satellite imagery in their ongoing conflict with the U.S. and other regional allies.

Perdue told Fox News that Xi had “assured” Trump during their bilateral meeting last week that they were “looking into” the allegations about supporting Iran with satellite imagery.

The Trump administration notably downplayed taking action against China for allegedly helping Iran despite the United States’ stated goal of targeting all countries with financial ties to Iran as part of the U.S. Treasury’s offensive “Operation Economic Outcast.”

“When they say that China spies on us, I say, ‘You’re right, and we spy on them too,’ you know? We spy on them too,” Trump said earlier this month.

When asked by reporters on Friday if the two leaders had discussed the war in Iran, Trump replied, “We did,” adding without providing details: “I think we’re going to do great.”

The potential offer to China comes as the Trump administration continues to press pause on a proposed $14 billion arms sale to the island of Taiwan, a de facto independent nation.

China has long claimed the sovereign territory as its own and regularly conducts large-scale military drills, live-fire exercises and daily air and naval patrols to apply pressure on the island. Taiwan relies heavily on U.S. military support to push back on China’s encroachments.

Perdue said that the administration was not denying Taiwan access to weapons needed for its defense, asserting: “President Trump is as strong on Taiwan as I’ve ever seen anybody. He’s made it very clear that we have not changed the One China policy.”

“President Xi has heard that repeatedly from President Donald Trump. President Trump has already sold 50% more arms to Taiwan than any other president since 1979,” Perdue added.

ABC News’ Nicholas Kerr contributed to this report.

Andrew Scott stars in ‘Elsinore’ official trailer

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The official trailer for Elsinore has arrived.

Focus Features released a new trailer for the Andrew Scott-starring film on Monday.

The movie follows “the deeply emotional and inspirational true story of Ian Charleson, a gifted actor whose greatest challenge becomes his greatest triumph. Facing his own mortality with unflinching honesty, wit, and grace, Charleson delivers a courageous performance that becomes a source of healing and inspiration for those around him,” according to its official synopsis.

Charleson replaced Daniel Day-Lewis as Hamlet in London’s National Theatre production of the classic play. Despite rave reviews, Charleson was dealing with complications from AIDS. He died in January 1990, weeks after performing his run in the production.

Simon Stone directed the film from a script by Stephen Beresford from an idea by Ethan Silverman.

In addition to starring, Scott produces the film. The rest of the cast includes Olivia Colman, Billie Piper, Johnny Flynn, Luke Thompson, David Dawson, Matthew Beard, Joe Locke, Monica Dolan, Georgie Glen, Sadie Soverall, Adeel Akhtar, Dickie Beau, Kadiff Kirwan, Juliet Stevenson and Peter Mullan.

Elsinore arrives in select theaters on Nov. 20.

Pennsylvania surpasses 900 measles cases with 13 new confirmed infections: Officials

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — At least 13 new measles cases have been confirmed in Pennsylvania since Friday, bringing the total so far this year to 903, according to Monday’s update from the state health department.

Cases have been recorded in 39 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. At least 176 people have been hospitalized, and four measles-associated deaths have been reported, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) said.

Two of the deaths were among unvaccinated adults: an 18-year-old and a 40-year-old. The other two deaths were among infants who were too young to have received the measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Fewer than 1% of the state’s cases — four in total — are among those who are fully vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, according to DOH.

The majority of cases are among those between ages 25 and 49, followed by those between ages 18 and 24, according to state health department data.

Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania has recorded the highest number of cases at 363 followed by Mifflin County, in the central part of the state, with 105.

At least 11 counties show evidence of community transmission, which is when infectious illness spreads through a local population without any known travel history and the specific source of infection cannot be determined.

DOH data shows staff have administered more than 8,300 doses of the MMR vaccine so far this year. Uptake was highest in August with about 3,500 vaccine doses administered, followed by September with about 2,500 doses administered.

Meanwhile, measles cases in the U.S. have surpassed 3,600 so far in 2026, with cases confirmed in 45 states and Washington, D.C., according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC has reported one death from measles so far this year but did not say where the death occurred. A note on the agency’s website said the number “is subject to change.”

The CDC currently recommends that people receive two doses of the MMR vaccine, the first at ages 12 to 15 months and the second between 4 and 6 years old. Infants who are between 6 and 11 months old and traveling outside of the country may require an additional vaccination. One dose is 93% effective in preventing measles infection and two doses are 97% effective, the CDC says.

However, CDC data shows vaccination rates have been lagging in recent years. During the 2025 to 2026 school year, 92.4% of kindergartners received the MMR vaccine, according to data. This is lower than the 95.2% seen in the 2019 to 2020 school year, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“If you’ve been exposed, it is important to talk to a healthcare professional, but don’t go into an urgent care or an ER because you may be inevitably spreading it to other vulnerable people,” ABC News medical contributor Dr. Alok Patel told “ABC News Live” on Friday.

“People who have been exposed may be instructed to quarantine or keep really close eye on their symptoms for up to 21 days because that’s how long it can really take for measles to show itself and you could potentially spread and infect others without even knowing it,” Patel added.

Pennsylvania surpasses 900 measles cases with 13 new confirmed infections: Officials

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

Fewer than 1% of the state’s cases — four in total — are among those who are fully vaccinated with the MMR vaccine, according to DOH.

The majority of cases are among those between ages 25 and 49, followed by those between ages 18 and 24, according to state health department data.

Lancaster County in southeastern Pennsylvania has recorded the highest number of cases at 363 followed by Mifflin County, in the central part of the state, with 105.

The CDC has reported one death from measles so far this year but did not say where the death occurred. A note on the agency’s website said the number “is subject to change.”

Nvidia releases software to prevent AI security incidents

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(NEW YORK) — Nvidia, a top chipmaker whose products fuel many artificial intelligence agents, released a software platform on Monday designed to prevent security incidents revealed by AI firms in recent months.

The software aims to provide a “trust layer” for AI agents that insulates them from inadvertent exposure to other AI agents, digital products and the open internet over the duration of their existence, Nvidia said in a blog post.

“Recent security incidents have underscored the need to equip organizations with open, customizable tools that enforce more control over long-running agents,” Nvidia said in a statement.

Dozens of companies partnered with Nvidia on the project, including IBM, Microsoft, Palantir, Anthropic and xAI-parent company SpaceX.

The move comes after a flurry of AI security incidents disclosed by firms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Alphabet-owned Google.

Those security breaches prompted warnings from some of most powerful executives in the artificial intelligence industry, who cautioned of a grave threat posed by the technology and called for a slowdown in AI development.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk belong to a group of industry leaders who have issued acute warnings about the risk of AI slipping out of human control.

Some analysts warn of a pathway called recursive self-improvement, in which AI becomes increasingly effective at training itself, eliciting a cycle of rapid advancement. At that point, they say, AI could take charge of critical systems using its superior capabilities to evade protections devised by humans.

By contrast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has downplayed such doomsday scenarios, instead pushing for safety measures that would keep AI in check as firms continue to develop it.

“Artificial intelligence is extraordinary technology that will advance discovery, productivity, security, health, and prosperity for generations to come,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a post on X on Monday. “But its full promise can only be realized when people have confidence that AI is being built to be safe and deployed with wisdom and responsibility.”

Anthropic and SpaceX joined in partnership with Nvidia on the AI safety software platform, Nvidia said. OpenAI is not listed among the corporate partners unveiled by Nvidia on Monday; nor are Meta or Google.

Public concern grew after an autonomous cyberattack disclosed by OpenAI in late July. The ChatGPT-maker revealed that its AI models had escaped a “sandboxed testing environment” and gained access to the open internet, OpenAI said.

A swarm of about 700 AI agents, in turn, hacked into AI firm Hugging Face and attempted to cover their tracks as they sought to complete the test, according to a report issued by research organizations METR and Redwood Research on Aug. 26.

On the same day, OpenAI released its own report about the cyberattack, voicing concern about the implications of its findings.

“We consider this incident a ‘warning shot for us and for the world: evidence that, without proper safeguards, highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed,” OpenAI said at the time.

“Preventing future incidents will require sustained investment in the alignment and control of sophisticated AI systems, as well as security and other safeguards that operate at the speed of the AI agents themselves,” the company added.

Nvidia said on Monday the newly unveiled software platform would have stopped the hack into Hugging Face, a company Nvidia has since acquired for nearly $13 billion. Hugging Face is a partner on the software platform, Nvidia noted.

‘Icebreaker’ Netflix series casts Daisy Jelley, Connor Simos

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

The upcoming series adaptation of Icebreaker has found its leads.

Netflix has announced that Daisy Jelley and Connor Simos have been cast as Anastasia “Stassie” Allen and Nate Hawkins in the new college romance show based on the bestselling novel by Hannah Grace.

“She’s the transfer gunning for Olympic gold. He’s the campus star chasing the NHL. But when an accident forces their teams to share one rink, Anastasia Allen and Nate Hawkins collide—and discipline gives way to obsession, because the only thing more dangerous than wanting to win is wanting each other,” according to the show’s official logline.

Gossip Girl and The Bold Type‘s Amanda Lasher will serve as showrunner, executive producer and writer on the series. Jade Halley Bartlett created the show and will executive produce alongside Grace. Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper also executive produces for her Unwell Productions.

“I have been a fan of steamy YA since the seventh grade, reading Judy Blume stealthily hidden behind a textbook,” Lasher told Netflix when the adaptation was announced back in June. “I love this genre, and it’s been a joy working with Jade, the team at Unwell, and Netflix to bring Hannah Grace’s beloved Icebreaker novel to the screen.”

Grace’s novel Icebreaker has spent 70 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. It was originally published in 2022 and had a wider release in 2023. The book has sold almost 5 million copies worldwide.

Tipster in RAF Fairford plot had ‘partial picture,’ British minister says amid probe

September 28, 2026 by WDNY Radio

(LONDON) — A police cordon remained in place on Monday near a major air base hosting U.S. forces in the southwest of England, where British police arrested five men early on Sunday on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offenses.

The men were detained in possession of three vans close to RAF Fairford, which has long served as a key European hub for the U.S. Air Force and a vital staging point for long-range operations in the Middle East — including in the ongoing conflict with Iran.

Counter Terrorism Policing said on Monday that all five men arrested were from London, all were British nationals and all were aged between 23 and 25. They were detained “on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and preparation of a terrorist act contrary to Section 5 of the Terrorism Act,” CTP said.

Police said they are still working to “establish the full circumstances of the activity of those arrested, their knowledge and any motivation behind this incident.”

Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Monday morning, British Defense Secretary Wes Streeting said he would not “comment in detail on operational security matters. Because, often, the more we might say the more insight we give to those who would wish us harm, and do us harm given the opportunity.”

Streeting said the investigation was “well under way” and thanked those involved in the arrests, the evacuation of the town and the investigation. Police said that at least 85 homes were evacuated during their response on Sunday.

Streeting thanked an anonymous farmer — who also spoke with the BBC — who said she called in the threat after coming across the “hooded and masked” men and vans in the early hours of Sunday morning in the village of Whelford, close to RAF Fairford.

Streeting thanked the tipster for calling in the threat, though said the caller only “had a partial picture” of the situation. “I won’t go beyond that, in terms of commenting on operational security matters,” Streeting added.

The farmer told the BBC she believed authorities had “dropped the ball” in allowing the suspected attackers to get so close to the base.

Public frustration at the incomplete picture, Streeting continued, is “a small price to pay” to protect operational security. Streeting also refused to comment on the identities, aims or motivations of the five detained men.

Streeting declined to give further details on what police and intelligence authorities may have known about the alleged plot, though welcomed President Donald Trump’s praise of an operation that he said had been ongoing for a “long time.”

Trump told reporters on Sunday that the suspects were “looking to do big damage” to U.S. forces present at RAF Fairford. “The arrest in the U.K. was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job,” Trump said.

The U.S. military has used RAF Fairford intensively amid the ongoing war with Iran — though so far no connection to Iran has been confirmed or established by authorities. The base has been used by American B-52 and B-1 heavy bombers operating in the Middle East.

When asked of potential Iranian involvement in the suspected plot, Streeting said he was not “drawing a connection with Iran,” before adding, “We know that Iran and their proxies wish to do us harm.”

The Iranian embassy in London denied any involvement in the incident, posting to X to condemn what it called “recent unfounded and malicious speculations published by some British individuals and media outlets.”

“The circulation of such fabricated speculations, particularly in the aftermath of the criminal acts of aggression committed by the United States and the Israeli regime against the Iranian people, will serve no purpose other than to fuel Iranophobia propaganda in the UK,” the embassy said.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran reserves the right to take appropriate legal measures, as necessary, to safeguard the rights and interests of the country and its people in response to misleading and damaging media narratives,” it added.

ABC News’ Victoria Beaule contributed to this report.

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