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Author: Mallen Baker

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Trump Pakistan Talks, AI Danger, Orbán's JD Vance Problem | News Round-Up
Episode 554
Friday, 10 April, 2026

The Trump team of crack negotiators head to Pakistan for talks, but will the Iranians even show up? Anthropic announces its new AI could basically hack all the systems on the planet without breaking a sweat - so they're only releasing it to all the companies who need to learn how to fix those systems fast. Hungary votes this weekend and we'll find out whether Orban's sixteen-year autocracy can still be defeated at polls that have been heavily weighted in his favour. And reports emerge that the Pentagon threatened the Pope if he didn't fall in behind its planned military adventurism. With one official saying they could even set up an anti-pope if he didn't cave in. Because yes - that's the world we live in now.