{"id":224652,"date":"2026-09-18T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-josh-shapiro-calls-for-ai-regulation-instead-of-pause-in-development-nbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:33:56","slug":"live-updates-josh-shapiro-calls-for-ai-regulation-instead-of-pause-in-development-nbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/live-updates-josh-shapiro-calls-for-ai-regulation-instead-of-pause-in-development-nbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Josh Shapiro calls for AI regulation instead of pause in development – NBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Postal Service head said the agency has stopped work on a system to carry out President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to limit mail voting.
<\/span>The U.S. Postal Service has stopped work on a computer system aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump order to limit mail voting.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Mandel Ngan \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/span>
Last month, politicos at the Iowa State Fair<\/a> saw an unusual sight: Attorney General Todd Blanche.
A few days earlier, he spoke at a rally at the Nassau County Police Academy<\/a>, praising the Republican nominee for New York governor. He then addressed the GOP\u2019s midterm election convention<\/a> to tout the administration\u2019s law-and-order record and Trump for \u201cmaking America safe again.\u201d And Wednesday, Blanche was at a campaign rally with Trump <\/a>in Gastonia, North Carolina.
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung<\/a> said today that he would not deploy military assets to the Middle East<\/a> in a way that could draw the country into conflict, but that Seoul was reviewing whether to play a greater role in safeguarding navigation in the region.
South Korea<\/a> has maintained a naval presence off the coast of Somalia<\/a> in an anti-piracy mission, while resisting calls from Trump<\/a> to play a more active military role in supporting Washington over the war in Iran<\/a>.
<\/span>SeongJoon Cho \/ Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span>
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A federal judge is ordering the Trump administration to give at least 30 days\u2019 notice before making any changes to existing renovation plans for the Kennedy Center, including any demolition of the center\u2019s main building. It comes as the president was spotted Wednesday looking at a poster on Air Force One that appeared to say \u201cKennedy Center Demolished.\u201d NBC\u2019s Yamiche Alcindor reports for “Today.”
The Trump administration will allow an Iranian delegation<\/a> to attend the United Nations General Assembly next week, albeit with some restrictions, a State Department spokesperson said.
The decision to grant Iranian top officials visas to travel to New York City<\/a> for the annual meeting of global leaders comes seven months into the U.S. war with Iran.
Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians<\/a> rallied today in a government-organized show of defiance after months of war, pledging their readiness to take up arms in the biggest such demonstration since the United States and Israel attacked in February.
Iran\u2019s government has sought to rally the people and stress national unity, even as the economy worsens under a U.S. naval blockade of Iranian ports and new U.S. sanctions meant to increase Tehran\u2019s economic pain.
<\/span>Vahid Salemi \/ AP<\/span>
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The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected<\/a> his executive order this week.
\u201cThere\u2019s an injunction, so we\u2019re not doing anything,\u201d Postmaster General David Steiner told The Associated Press in an interview.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro sought to plant his flag in the intensifying debate over AI safety, pushing for the federal government to quickly pass regulations to rein in the industry but opposing calls to pause development on advanced models until such regulations are enacted.
\u201cI think you have to listen to the people who are building these systems and in some cases have lost control of the systems that they\u2019re building, and they are sounding the alarm,\u201d Shapiro said in an interview with NBC News. \u201cThey\u2019re calling for regulation, and that\u2019s exactly what we need.\u201d
Read the full story here.<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
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The U.S. Postal Service head said the agency has stopped work on a system to carry out President Donald Trump\u2019s plan to limit mail voting. The U.S. Postal Service has stopped work on a computer system aimed at carrying out President Donald Trump order to limit mail voting.\u00a0Mandel Ngan \/ AFP via Getty ImagesLast month, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}