Morning briefing Thursday 10th September

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 Times Radio's Morning Briefing on Thursday the 10th of September. Nigel Farage faces the prospect of being interviewed by detectives investigating allegations that two of his key allies solicited illegal foreign donations for Reform UK.

0:49The party's leader may be questioned as a witness after he was secretly filmed by Channel 4 News being told of the plan to funnel illegal US donations via a UK citizen. The Times' Fraser Nelton, however, says the police shouldn't be brought into such matters in the first place. They know that if he says it wrong, the stakes are very high. This will serve to make them careful and slow. The longer this draws out, the process is the punishment. Reform have given their side of a story pretty clearly. And the other side of the story was there for all to see. Were they just joking? Were they ever going to go along with it?

1:23A spokesperson for Reform UK says the party will fully cooperate with the investigation. Pretend I'm on the ballot. That was the message from President Trump to Republicans during the first ever convention by either of the two main parties ahead of a U.S. midterm election. Trump was addressing his supporters in Dallas, where his aim was to galvanize the party ahead of November's ballot. The midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president, and we're going to change that. And we really have 35 races. They all count. But we have 35 races that are, I guess you'd call the swings, right?

2:01We can win every one of those races, but I'm going to go to every one of those states for congressmen and for senators. Flight disruption that caused chaos for hundreds of thousands of passengers is expected to ease further today. Technical issues with air traffic control systems have resulted in more than 2 ,000 UK flights being cancelled. since Tuesday. Flight schedules are expected to return to normal before the weekend, although Martin Rolfe, the chief executive of National Air Traffic Services, is facing calls from many within the airline industry to resign. A former chief secretary to the prime minister is warning that governments and parliaments around the world must take safety warnings about super intelligent AI seriously, following claims by experts of a risk to humanity.

2:49It's after a British researcher who'd spent three years working at Anthropic and other AI companies quit the industry because he claimed they are gambling with people's lives and human existence. Darren Jones, who was Chief Secretary to Sakia Starmer in Downing Street, has written an open letter to Andy Burnham and the United Nations calling for a multinational treaty for AI's safe development. It's not just one person that left Anthropic. I mean, Anthropic themselves have been saying this for a while. OpenAI had a recent example. So we can see this start to happening, this is starting to happen now and that's why our institutions of government and parliaments around the world need to move quickly in order to make sure that we're ahead of it in case the whistleblowing stories we're hearing are true.

3:34And hands-on work experience for every student is part of a new pledge by universities to increase graduate employment. The body that represents Vice-Chancellors said 1.4 million students a year were expected to benefit from the programme as part of their degree by 2035. There's more on all of these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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