Reuters World News - AI's doomsday warning, Trump's $5,000 'dividend' and submarine drones

Episode Date: September 10, 2026

Anthropic researchers warn AI could wipe out humanity within the decade. President Donald Trump promises every American adult a $5,000 payout if Republicans hold onto Congress in the midterms. Iran's capture of a U.S. underwater drone shows how central they've become in modern warfare. And Apple drops its first foldable iPhone with a $1,999 price tag. Podcasts, breaking news, and video analysis from the source. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Download the Reuters app here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen to the Morning Bid podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Visit the ⁠⁠Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for information on our privacy and data protection practices.  You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Carmel Crimmons in London. It's Thursday, September 10th. Today, will AI kill us all? A warning from inside the tech industry. Trump offers Americans a $5,000 payout if Republicans win the midterms. Apple drops its $2,000 foldable iPhone, and Iran gets its hands on U.S. military tech. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week. We start with a bombshell warning from inside the AI industry. Researchers at AI Giant Anthropic are warning that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity within the decade, with one resigning over it, saying the companies building this tech are gambling with our lives.

Mike Dolan from our sister podcast MorningBid has more. Will AI kill us all? I don't think anybody in financial markets can price the end of humanity. But what these apocalyptic warnings do point to, And I think we have seen many this year, including in the spring, about mass depression and mass unemployment. And again, subsequently about the wipe out of entire financial sectors. These warnings recur, but they point overwhelmingly to regulation of this new technology. And this is the real impact that can potentially be priced.

Although in this geopolitical climate, it's hard to imagine any joined up thinking on regulation of something that is a global transformation. I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. U.S. President Donald Trump making an extraordinary pitch at the Republicans' first ever midterm convention in Dallas. A $5,000 Trump dividend if the Republicans keep control of Congress

in November's midterm elections. Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders. It's not clear how any such payout would work, or if it's even legal. With approximately 270 million US adults, the idea would cost over $1 trillion. Republicans are hoping the convention will energize voters ahead of November. Democratic Senator John Fetterman, who has increasingly broken with his party, made a surprise video appearance at the event.

With polls showing Democrats more motivated to vote, Republicans are banking on Trump to energize their base, despite voter anxiety about inflation and the Iran war. But the strategy has its skeptics. Many Republicans in competitive race is skipping the event, worried that Trump's brand may not be enough. Reporter Nandita Bose is in Dallas. It has been really interesting speaking to folks here.

A lot of people are concerned about, you know, high gas prices. They are concerned about the cost of living, but somehow they do not wish to tie that to President Trump. When they speak about their economic anxieties, they are not taking that back to the president. And they want the war to end. They're bringing up Iran in conversations and how that has impacted the cost of goods and groceries and, first, you know, energy prices. But somehow they're not taking that back to, to, to, to, you know, the President of the United States. So we'll see, you know, we're going to do more interviews and talk to people to see, you know, who is it really they think is responsible for the war

and for energy prices. But people here are really not tying a lot of what we're seeing in terms of economic concerns to the president. Now, the president's journey to Dallas didn't go exactly to plan. An emergency slide on Air Force One accidentally deployed before he boarded, briefly delusely. delaying his departure. He flew on the Boeing 747 gifted by guitar, telling reporters he was confident the plane was safe or he wouldn't have used it. Now, the convention was definitely not the biggest event on primetime TV last night. That honour went to the NFL, where the Seahawks beat the New England Patriots in the season's first matchup. Tough competition for the Republicans.

But perhaps the busiest event of the day belonged to Apple, the iPhone maker revealing its latest phone, and it folds. The duo, its first ever foldable phone, is a passport-sized device that will retail for $1,99. The launch marks the biggest overhaul of the iPhone since 2007, and it's a big deal for new CEO John Tennis. Reporter Stephen Nellis was there and got to play around with it. This is going to take out to a brand new category. It's mostly been dominated by Android devices from Samsung, Huawei and others. It's going to cost $2,000. to start and will have the biggest screen and most advanced chip of any iPhone. So Apple's done a lot of work to try to fix some things that have been deviled other folding

phones in the past. Number one is this hinge. It has to feel smoothly secure hundreds of times of days sometimes and thousands, if not millions, of tons over the lifetime of the device. Number two is looking at this screen and seeing whether you can see any kind of a crease. Apple deployed some amazing technology from the shipmaking industry to try to minimize what you see there in terms of increase. Stephen says it's also a new showcase

for Apple's artificial intelligence offerings. This thing is really optimized for the new series that Apple brought out in the summertime that is hoping users in the US world. There's still some key question marks, though. The new Siri will not be available in the EU

and it's not going to be available in China. We've been a lot of people wondering how Apple is going to introduce the most important new features on its most important advice in a time. way by the end of this week. Visit BetMGM Casino and check out the newest exclusive. The Price is Right Fortune Pick.

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highlights the way in which warfare is changing. The US military is increasingly relying on new autonomous technology. The Pentagon says the 19-foot submersible malfunctioned and was an older model carrying non-sensitive data, while Iran is touting the seizure as a capture of advanced US technology. And analysts say Tehran is likely to reverse engineer it. Our Pentagon reporter Adris Ali explains. This US military submarine made by Andril, the private company, is capable of, you know, surveying the seabed, carrying out counter-mine missions. It's about 20 feet long, essentially, and it can, you know, be active and working for 10 days

or so without needing to return to base or charge. I think it speaks to the fact that drones as a whole are a focal point of warfare around the world. in places like Ukraine and Russia. And now we're seeing countries like the United States and other ones really focusing and relying on them because at the end of the day, if you're a country, you do not want your sailors or soldiers being put in harm's way. And the best way to do that is drones. I do think it is important to note that early in the conflict, we did see the US military release footage of another underwater drone actually being used to target Iranian ships in some of their

So they have played more of a role in this conflict than in previous ones. And I think the expectation is that that's only going to proliferate. The Trump administration is proposing changing the census to count only U.S. citizens and permanent residents. It's a move that could dramatically shift political representation and federal funding across the country. The proposal would exclude not just immigrants in the U.S. illegally, but also those in the country legally on a temporary basis.

and would eliminate some of the questions about race and ethnicity that have been part of the census since 1790. Civil rights advocates warned the changes could leave cities and states with large immigrant populations with insufficient federal aid and representation, calling the potential effects earth-shattering. New financial disclosures released by the White House revealed that President Trump gave cash gifts

of up to $45,000 to close AIDS last year, including Executive Assistant Natalie Harp and three others working in the West Wing. The payments, equivalent to roughly one-third of the aides government salaries, are raising ethics concerns, since federal employees are generally barred from receiving compensation beyond their official pay. The White House says the gifts comply with ethics rules and are part of Trump's long-standing practice of giving Christmas gifts. History fans are flocking to London's British Museum today to catch a rare glimpse of 11th century life in the Bayou tapestry. That's a 70-meter-long embroidery depicting the Norman Connoissellors.

conquest of England. Producer Mary Louise Gumuchian got a sneak peek at the thousand-year-old artwork before the exhibit's opening. It is normally housed in a museum in France, but it arrived on loan in July in an air-conditioned anti-vibration crate escorted by French police until the Euro Tunnel and then handed over to British authorities once it arrived in Britain. Such is the excitement for this exhibition that tickets for a first phase sold out within hours. For more in any of the stories from today, as well as more in analysis and news shaping our world,

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