AI Alarms, Canada’s Opposition, The GOP Convention 9/10/26

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Bring in show music, please.

Katie Kramer (1:03)

Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer. Today on Squawk Pod, President Trump with a personal midterm election push.

Donald Trump (1:11)

I'm asking you to pretend that I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot.

I'm on the ballot.

Katie Kramer (1:19)

While oil prices remain high and the war in Iran no end in sight.

Andrew Ross Sorkin (1:24)

We're doing better than Iran. Great.

Donald Trump (1:26)

You're a party.

Andrew Ross Sorkin (1:27)

My point is we have been told and frankly lied to repeatedly.

Joe Kernen (1:31)

Well, they don't know. I don't... They don't know?

Katie Kramer (1:34)

The dangers, real dangers of artificial intelligence.

Tristan Harris (1:37)

This sounds like science fiction to people. I get it, right? I probably sound like a crazy person.

Katie Kramer (1:42)

Tristan Harris, former Google exec who founded the Center for Humane Technology on the agents that go rogue and it's just the beginning.

Tristan Harris (1:50)

They actually contemplate that this behavior is unethical and they chose to do it anyway. And this is despite a decade of the best attempts of safety researchers to get the AIs to be aligned and helpful and safe.

Katie Kramer (2:01)

And Canada's Conservative leader meeting with New York's business community, he is pushing back on tariff talk.

Pierre Poilievre (2:08)

Canadians are united in our mission to fight the tariffs and get back to a trade relationship that makes us both better off.

Katie Kramer (2:17)

It is Thursday, September 10th, 2026

Joe Kernen (2:20)

This is what we've been talking about all along, machines train machines.

Katie Kramer (2:24)

Squawk Pod begins right now.

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Stand Becky by in three, two, one, cue please.

Becky Quick (2:32)

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squawk Box right here on CNBC. We are live from the NASDAQ market site in Times Square. I'm Becky Quick, along with Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin. All right, here we go. It's Thursday.

Joe Kernen (2:44)

President Trump says oil prices have jumped because of the Iran War and probably won't come down until after the midterm election.

Donald Trump (2:52)

Right after the election, because they'd like to have it that way, but right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down and we'll get them down, I think, for gasoline. We'll get them below $2 a gallon.

Katie Kramer (3:05)

But not until after the midterm.

Donald Trump (3:06)

I think it's going to take a little bit longer than the midterm.

Joe Kernen (3:09)

President making those comments to reporters before he flew to Dallas for the GOP's midterm convention, he says he thinks that the Iran War will end immediately after the election in November. In a new report, the Wall Street Journal says White House advisors have spoken with the president that the possibility that the war will continue through the rest of his term.

Becky Quick (3:36)

It has been three sessions in a row that the markets are off. And by the way, it's Thursday. We've only had two trading sessions this week. It has been a little bit of pressure this week. For the week, the Dow is off by 2 percent, but it's only off by 4.3 percent from its all-time high. S&P and the NASDAQ are each off by about 1 percent for this week. The S&P is only 2.3 percent from its all-time high, and the NASDAQ is 3.5 percent from its all-time high. If you've been watching Energy, though, this has been the pressure point. Another day, another tick higher for energy prices. Right now, WTI is trading at $97.65.

For the week to date, before you saw these moves today, that's a move of about 1.6 percent. WTI was already up 5 percent over the first two trading sessions. Brent, which just crossed the $100 mark yesterday, is now trading at 102.34.