Afternoon Briefing Wednesday 29th April

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters? PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. This is your Times Radio news briefing for the afternoon of Wednesday 29th April. Buckingham Palace has responded to Donald Trump's claim that the king agrees that Iran shouldn't have a nuclear weapon by suggesting that the king is also on the same page as the Prime Minister.

0:51A spokesperson said the king is naturally mindful of his government's long-standing and well-known position on the prevention of nuclear proliferation. Speaking at the state dinner at the White House overnight, the US president said this. We're doing a little Middle East work right now, too, if you might know. And we're doing very well. We have militarily defeated that particular opponent. And we're never going to let that opponent ever, Charles agrees with me even more than I do, we're never going to let that opponent have a nuclear weapon. They know that and they've known it right now very powerfully.

1:28President Trump has posted on social media this morning that Iran doesn't know how to sign a non-nuclear deal but better get their act together, saying no more Mr Nice Guy. Cabinet Minister Steve Reid has told Times Radio that the vast majority of the parliamentary Labour Party is behind the Prime Minister, following him surviving a vote over being investigated about Peter Mandelson's appointment. It means he won't face the Privileges Committee. However, 15 Labour MPs voted against the Prime Minister, which Mr Reid suggested was insignificant. There was a handful of usual suspects who did what they tend to do.

2:04I'm not in charge of discipline. I'm not too bothered about them, to be honest. I'm much more bothered about the 99 % of us who want to work together and focus on the issues that matter most to the people of this country, including building more homes and helping with the cost of living crisis. 53 Labour MPs didn't vote. Police have arrested a number of people from the Armadi Muslim community in Crewe over allegations of serious sexual offences, forced marriage and modern slavery. All of the alleged offences involved one woman who was a member of the group at the time. More than 500 officers have been involved in the operation, which Cheshire Constabulary says has been detailed and robust.

2:41In the first day of a trial about the future of the company OpenAI, Elon Musk has claimed that its CEO, Sam Altman, turned it into a profit-making company, effectively stealing a charity. Elon Musk, who invested in OpenAI, is suing its bosses, saying they betrayed him by abandoning its mission of ensuring AI would benefit humanity. US West Coast correspondent at the Sunday Times, Danny Fortson, explains more. OpenAI, of course, goes on to create ChatGPT. It has now created a for-profit subsidiary that is worth$800 billion. And Elon Musk is suing and saying, hey, you bamboozled me. You took my money for a non-profit.

3:21You waited till I left, turned it into a for-profit, made loads of money, and that's not fair. You should unwind the whole thing and give me a bunch of money back. OpenAI argues that the lawsuit is largely an attempt to damage a competitor. A new pensions bill will become law after the government relented on some of its desires, which were being blocked by the House of Lords. There'd been slow progress because of a clause which would have made it mandatory for pensions funds to divert at least 5 % of retirement savings into UK infrastructure projects and private markets to boost the nation's economic growth.

3:54But now, savers' interests will be prioritised over where the money must be invested. For more stories like this, listen throughout the day to Times Radio.

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