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morning wake up call. Here's any King Good Morning at five o'clock on the
dot. This is your wake up call for Tuesday, September twenty sixth.
I'm Amy King, got my coffee ready to go. But I am sad
today because I just found out that it's National Pancake Day. I didn't plan
for it, so I have vote me on not pancakes. That doesn't mean
you couldn't make pancakes for breakfast. You probably still have time. Also,
I'm very excited today because I woke up with a text message saying, hey,
you won, And it wasn't from a scammer. It was from a
person that I'm involved with a with a football pool four. So I won
my football pool for the week. And I can tell you that I've been
playing this football pool for like more than twenty years and one year I finished
dead. Last one year I finished first in the group and we had like
fifty people and I have not won a single week of this football pool for
probably six years. So I was like whoa. I mean it's you know,
one hundred and eighty dollars. But I'm still in the I'm still in
the hole because it's like eighty five dollars a year and I have one for
like five or six years. But hey, that's two tanks of gas.
That's a that's a good score. Well, except with gas prices right now,
it might be just one and a half. Yeah, you're right,
yeah, up again, gas prices up again. I think it's six thirteen
a gallon in La County. Gotta love it. Here's what's a head on?
Wake up call? Right? Writers Guild members could get a look at
the tentative deal reached between the union and Hollywood Studios today. If WGA leaders
accept the terms of the deal, they could call for an end to the
strike today, and that would allow the writers to get back to work before
the contract is actually voted on and ratified. President Biden will join picket lines
today in Michigan as UAW workers continue to strike for fewer work days, more
pay, and pensions against the Big three automakers. A sixteenth bus full of
migrants has arrived in Los Angeles from Texas. The group included both adults and
children, mostly from Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, and Honduras. The Coalition
for Human Immigrant Rights in La says some on the bus hadn't eaten for several
days. At six oh five, we've got handle on the news. Former
President Trump says, maybe a government shutdown is just what we need, but
that's going to play well on Capitol Hill. Let's start with some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Actors in Hollywood say
they will remain on picket lines as the Writers Union works to finalize a tentative
deal with studios. Writers are expected to vote on a deal reached with major
studio heads, and unless it gets the majority of approval, it won't be
official. Actor Mario Ponce says most actors are highly underpaid and hopes the writers
deal puts something in motion for actors. We would definitely get law bought in
this game. So many times, so many for me to say. The
Writers Guild says the new deal will go to the Council for approval and then
to its members for a vote. Writers have been on strike since May,
and we're joined by the actors. In July. Chris Adler KFI News SAG
after members could possibly hit the picket lines against ten major video game companies.
Vote results announced last night show more than ninety eight percent of the nearly thirty
five thousand members who cast ballots voted in favor of authorizing a strike. The
guild's last strike against gaming companies was in late twenty sixteen. It lasted for
about six months. Negotiations resumed today. If no agreement has reached over the
next few days, a strike could follow. A flight instructor and a student
have been critically injured in a small plane crash in San Pedro. So I
ran to the plane. I was able to open it up the windows.
She was responsive. I was in the female. The male wasn't bringing at
all. This man was the first person to go to the plane after it
made a hard landing on a soccer field yesterday. Within minutes, there was
five other people here where they're able to help me take a wind off the
female. We were able to get her on the ground. The mail was
sitting in there. We left him there because the paramics were coming, so
they removed him. Some fuel leaked on the ground, but there was no
fire. No one else was injured. The NTSB and FAA are investigating the
crash. Sales of Travis Kelsey football jerseys have exploded. Guess why because he
was spotted with Taylor Swift at the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Bears.
Swift was seen Sunday watching the game from Kelsey Suite with his mom, and
then less than twenty four hours later, he was listed as one of the
top five selling NFL players with a four hundred percent increase in Jersey sales.
It happened as rumors swirl of a possible romance between the two. It is
five zero six on your wake up call. Time to say good morning to
ABC's national correspondent Stephen portnoy So. Stephen, despite what appears to be from
pictures we've seen from prosecutors a mountain of evidence, Senator Bob Menendez or Melendez
is defiant and says he's not stepping down and expects to be exonerated. Bob
Menendez says he's going to remain New Jersey Senior Senator. He's not answering whether
he's going to run for reelection next year, but already faces a primary challenger
in the form of a Democratic House member from New Jersey Andy Kim and increasing
calls for his resignation. Last night, a former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added
her name to the list of top Democrats who are saying that Menendez should step
down. So far muted calls from Senate Democrats. Just a handful of Menendez's
colleagues and the Upper Chamber have said that he should step down. Menendez said
yesterday that he is going to be exonerated, and the prosecutors make mistakes,
and he knows that because a few years ago he beat a rap. The
Justice Department refused to retry a case, a separate case completely unrelated to the
charges now that he was engaged in a bribery scheme and a jury did not
return an unanimous verdict, and the Justice Department ultimately dismissed those charges. So
Menendez is going to beat this rap too. But he has not offered a
full explanation to the public for what is alleged in the indictment, which he
says is written in the most salacious possible way and essentially mischaracterizes the facts.
But here's what the indictment says. The indictment says that Bob Menendez and his
younger wife, Nadine, worked with friends Egyptian businessmen and other businessmen in New
Jersey to do their bidding in Washington so that they would be enriched by these
benefactors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars,
Mercedes Benz mortgage payments. The only explanation we heard for about any of
this yesterday from Menendez was related to the cash that investigators pulled out of the
house dollars worth right right, Yeah, some of it sewed into embroidered jackets
that the Senator now, he said yesterday, that is a son of Cuban
refugees. He knows the risk of government confiscation, and so to keep cash
on hands for emergencies, he has over the years withdrawn thousands of dollars from
his own personal savings accounts. But the indictment says that some of this cash
happens to have the fingerprints and DNA of his alleged benefactors in the bribery scheme,
and also no explanation for the gold bars. The acusations in the indictment
are that Menendez applied pressure on administration officials in the executive branch and on state
prosecutors in New Jersey on behalf of the people who are giving him all this
money, and those are the official acts that prosecutors will allege Menendez did.
Now, Menendez is going to argue that all the things he did were in
keeping with his constitutional role and responsibility as a US senator. It would be
a very interesting defense in front of a jury. Yeah, and he not
only defended his position with Egypt, but he went on to talk about all
the other good things that he's done in office. As I get back to
it, dude, get back to it, because he was wandering off of
that. So what's next for him, Well, ultimately he'll have to answer
to these charges, but the immediate question is whether his Democratic colleagues in the
Senate will join the calls for his ouster and whether there'll be any kind of
motion to expel Bob Menendez. And that can happen. But look, there
are two separate storms Menendez. There's the legal one that he's going to try
to mount a defense against and may well survive. I mean, you know,
it looked he was able to avoid an unanimous verdict in the last round,
and there have been various appeals court cases, and even a Supreme Court
case that limits prosecutor's ability to bring corruption and bribery counts against sitting officeholders.
And then there's the political aspect of it, which is a much harder challenge
I think from Menendez to convince New Jersey ands to send him back for another
six year term. In the midst of all, this gonna be fun to
watch. Thanks Stephen Portnoy for your time this morning. I appreciate it.
Be Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour newsroom. People on Maui are finally being allowed to return to their
property following deadly wildfires last month. Johnny officials have set up a system to
allow some residents and property owners to survey damage. Yesterday, two dozen parcels
in North Lahina were opened and the first group of people were escorted in for
a specific time period. People were encouraged to wear protective gear and were asked
not to sift through the ashes for fear of stirring up toxic dust. The
movie is part of the county's re entrying rebuilding program. Officials say two thousand
homes and buildings were destroyed and at least ninety seven people were killed. Steve
Gregory camef I News a debate has been set between Governor Newsom and Florida Governor
Ronda Santis. Even though Newsome has repeatedly said he is not running for president,
His face to face showdown with De Santis has been debated for some time.
Newsom spokesperson saying we've agreed to the debate provided there is no cheering section,
no hype videos. We want a real debate, not a circus.
ABC's Lionel Moisey says the two will meet November thirtieth. The debate will be
ninety minutes long and moderated by Sean Hannity on Fox News. De Santis's campaign
says whether Newsome or Biden is the Democrat nominee in twenty twenty four, they
both offer the same failed, dangerous ideology for America. The mountain towns of
Crestline, Angelus and Forest Falls are getting new heavy equipment to help recover from
natural disasters. Stay lawmakers have given San Bernardino County two and a half million
dollars, which county officials say will be used to buy four large front end
loaders amid size loader four industrial snowblowers. The equipment will help with debris removal
after snowstorms, floods, mudslides, and earthquakes. All of the equipment will
be stored close enough to be deployed at a moment's notice. As many as
four million workers could lose pay if the government shuts down. Willie Joe Price
has worked in the cafeteria the Library of Congress for forty two years and says
there are lots of people just like her who are going to suffer living paycheck
to paycheck and can't afford to do anything, you know, and then the
government's shut down, and like I say, the government will go back and
they're gonna get paid. We're not going to get anything. Price says she's
concerned she will fall behind on her bills. The federal government is set to
shut down October first if lawmakers don't reach a deal. This week, the
UCLA Blood and Platelet Center started accepting blood donations from gay and bisexual men,
previously restricted by federal guidelines. Campus blood recruiter Tom King says it's a big
moment for the gay community. People felt it wasn't just, but you can
make a difference and I think people's voices helped to make a difference, and
I've said to other people now there's other issues within the LGBTQ plus community that
still need our attention. King says, every person donating, we'll be individually
screamed, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. The actor who played doctor Donald
Millard or Duckie Oh maybe it's Mallard on the TV show NCIS has died.
David McCallum was also known for his work on The Man from Uncle in the
nineteen sixties. CBS announced yesterday McCallum was surrounded by family when he died of
natural causes at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He was ninety. Okay, so
I don't know about you, but now with the writers strike appearing to be
over, or at least very close to it, I'm very happy because Dancing
with the Stars is going on. So if you'll remember, they announced the
cast and I was pleasantly surprised because they actually had some stars on Dancing with
the Stars, including Oscar winner Mira Sorvino and How I Met Your Mother actor
Alison Hannigan, also VEEP star Matt Walsh. And then they said, wait
a second, we're not sure if this is going to go on because of
the strike, because there was worried that some of the people who were participating,
even though it wasn't scripted, that they were maybe strike busting or something
like that. In fact, Matt Walsh from VEEP, who's one of the
dancers, said I'm going to put a pause on this and said in solidarity
with the unions, I'm not going to perform. But now ABC is confirmed
that it's all a go again. Dancing with the Stars will debut as originally
planned tonight at eight and I haven't watched the show for years, but I
might tonight. It would be fun. I'm so glad the writer's strike is
almost over. Of course, then the sag after video game strike might start
and the other sag stripers still continuing. Never a dull moment. In La
gas prices are up for the twentieth time in twenty two days in La County,
up to six fifteen a gallon. That's seventy four cents higher than the
last or in the last twenty two days. Orange County prices are also up
to six eleven a gallon. It's five ninety eight in the IE at six
oh five is handle on the news about fifty thousand eviction notices had been filed
since COVID renters protections ended in LA. Right now, let's say good morning
to ABC's Karen Travers. Check it in with the President, who's about to
be carrying a picket sign. Yeah. The President, well, we don't
know that. The White House would not say that specifically. Yesterday there were
questions about it, but the Whitehouse says that he wants to be the most
pro union president in history, and today he's going to show a supportant person
to UAW autoworkers who are on strike in Michigan. This is the storic move
by the president because it thought to be the first time that a sitting president
has joined a picket line. Yesterday, he was asked if he specifically supports
the demands that the UAW is asking for the forty percent pay raise, the
thirty two hour work week, and better benefits. And the President wouldn't get
into that specifically, you know, and the White House is also doing the
same thing, not a numbers, not talking about the negotiations exactly, but
he said that the auto workers gave up an incredible amount. In his words,
when the auto industry was sailing, and that now they should reap the
benefits of a turnaround in the industry. He said, you know, look
at the executive compensation, the salaries for executives, the growth in the industry.
They should get some of the benefit of that. You know, a
lot of semantics yesterday with the White House of does he side with the workers
now? Is he taking their side in this dispute with the auto companies?
And Karine Jean Pierre would only say he is standing with the workers, and
everybody said, well, yes, we know that because you're finally going to
be there with them today. But in terms of you know, putting a
thumb on the scale, what does this all mean? She just kept saying,
he wants to show his support for the UAW. Okay, so he's
showing a support for the U A WU. Is he going to meet with
the heads of the big three automakers or anybody with them, or is he
only going for the workers today. I asked that question yesterday because we know
he had head conversations. Yes, there you go, ask them, you
shall receive. He had talked to auto executives earlier this month, before he
had traveled to India a couple of weeks ago, but we have not heard
of any new conversations, at least since the strike had started. That the
president has not engaged with the auto executives. I asked if they had invited
him to a meeting today or is he going to talk to them. Corene
would not say if there was an invitation from the Auto executives any of the
companies, or if the President would have any engagement with them today. Something
we're keeping an eye on to see whether or not there's a phone call with
anybody from one of those companies. Well, he's going to be in town,
I mean it might as well. Yeah, all right, thank you
so much. Does be on camera thing with the workers and does a phone
call with the executive, So we'll see, stay tuned. I want him
to carry a picket signed personally. I don't think it's probably gonna happen,
but that's okay. Thank you so much for your time here, and we'll
talk to you again soon. I have a great day, Thanks you too.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty
four hour news room. Orange County has suspended advanced sales of burial plots until
a new county cemetery opens for the first time in more than one hundred twenty
five years, so that will have enough space to help out neat families up
until the point that our new cemetery is open. OH ce Cemetery District GM
Tim Deutsch says the county six hundred forty remaining spaces would run out by twenty
twenty five, at least a year before the new cemetery is complete, unless
they also expand. There's a road or two within the cemetery grounds that we're
going to be able to convert it to more space that will provide us another,
you know, four to five hundred spaces. He says. The new
eighty eight or cemetery in Gypsum Canyon will be next to the first veteran cemetery
for Orange County in Orange County, Corbin Carson KFI News Governor Newsom assigned a
bill to ban school boards from rejecting textbooks based on teachings about people from different
racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Newsom says the law passed
yesterday takes effect immediately, and simmons California's role as the true freedom state.
California labor organizations have voiced their displeasure over Governor Newsom's veto of a bill that
would require people to be inside autonomous vehicles for at least the next five years.
It's extremely disappointing the governor chose state corporations over working people and the will
of California voters. The Teamsters Peter Finn says the union's going to be doubling
down on its efforts to put guardrails on the use of a v autonomous vehicle
technology. Newsom's offices the bill is not necessary and says sting law provides enough
authority over autonomous vehicles. A former Riverside County Sheriff's correctional deputy has pleaded not
guilty to a pair of felony drug charges. The Riverside County Day's Office says
Jorge Osagara Rocha was caught with more than a hundred pounds of fentanyl and a
gun when he was pulled over September seventeenth. He could get up to ten
years in prison if he's convicted. Another bus carrying migrants from Texas has arrived
in La. The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights confirmed yesterday's arrival on X formerly
known as Twitter, saying the group included twenty three adults and fifteen kids from
Columbia, Ecuador, Honduras, and Venezuela. It's the sixteenth bus load of
migrants to arrive since June. The La City Council approved motion earlier the summer
to formally establish La as a sanctuary city. A Fizer plant in North Carolina
damaged by a tornado has restarted production. The plant's roofs were ripped open and
pallets of medicine were strewn around in July when the tornado touched down. Weiser
says getting a majority of manufacturing lines at the facility back up and running is
a proud achievement. Well, skeeters have achieved something. They are bugging us
right into fall. And if you're wondering if it seems like there are more
skeeters this year, there are. And the little bugs are called eighties.
I believe where did I put the little pronunciation of it? But they're the
ankle biters. There's the skeeters are out and they're biting your ankles. I
personally been pretty lucky, but I haven't been near like wet lands areas or
near the beach or anything like that. But you might want to keep the
calumine lotion handy because bug people are saying, because of all the rains we
had, including Tropical Storm Hillary or what was left of her, it's like
perfect environment for not only the bugs, but also critters to be out and
about. So you might have seen more critters wandering around. And then La
landed first on Orkand's Top fifty mosquito cities this year. Yeah, we're number
one, and the ankle biting mosquito has been I've heard people talking about it
more and more, and apparently it's here to stay. The good news is
in all of this is that all of this really wet weather was unusual.
So some experts are saying that this is sort of a singular year and we
should be back to normal Skeeter levels next year. We'll see. Right now,
let's say good morning to La Kenny Sheriff's Captain Bill Moulder. The reason
we wanted to talk with Captain Moulder is because of a new pilot program that's
been launched in West Hollywood. It's an app. It's called safe Stop.
So please tell us what it is and how it's going to be used.
Safe Stop is a program an app wherein when somebody, a driver who has
the app is pulled over by law enforcement. In this case it will be
in West Hollywood with our West Hollywood Epic deputies, that they could engage the
app and then have a two way video conversation with the deputy before the deputy
makes an approach. So it's a tool for us in law enforcement to why
seeing, for us to promote a safer and more effective stop, and also
for the driver to allay any concerns about being stopped. Everybody always has concerns
when they're being you know, pulled over. Okay, so let's walk this
through it. I'm driving along and I'm speeding, not that I would ever
do that, and you pull me over. So as I'm sitting there in
my car, how do I know that I can talk to you before you
approach the car. So how the system is set up is that it if
you have the app, then we'll have the app too. So if you
press the button on the app, it calls for the officer for the deputy,
then it will ring in the deputy's patrol vehicle and then they could you
know, the call, have a video little quick video conference if you will,
with the driver, and then make the approach only. And again it's
optional. If it's you know, the situation allows for that to occur,
then we can do that, okay. So it's basically like face timing or
even like a video walkie talkie because it's going to connect you directly with the
with the deputy who pulled you over. It will connect, yeah, connect
directly. The technology is such that it will recognize the same the same r
app in the deputy's police vehicle within like twenty or so feet, so it
will do a direct connecting. Yes, it's exactly like a FaceTime or video
call. Okay. And so we know that it's a stressful thing when you
get pulled over, mainly because you already know that you did something wrong and
you just got busted for it. But it's a stressful time for the officers
too. How does this help the officers and make sure that they are safe
as well? So the officer the deputy too. It's very helpful to first
engage the individual via the video call to determine how many people are in the
car and the demeanor of the driver and all that is traffic stops are one
of the most dangerous situations for law enforcement, and so any tool that we
can try out or add to make it safer for us and for the community
to we serve the better, the better the outcomes I think will be with
those stops. Yeah, and I love this idea because, again going back
to just my experience, I know that when I get pulled over, I
just start like, my heart starts pounding, and I'm like again, usually
I know that I've done something wrong, but sometimes you get pulled over and
you don't, and so you're kind of freaking out. So I think that
would be really helpful that you connect to the call and the officers. They're
going, hey, I'm going to come up to the car. Take a
deep breath. I'm going to be right there. So you've already established the
communication exactly. The authors could introduce themselves. You know, I'm Deputy Moulder.
I stopped because you were speeding. I know amy number speed, but
in this case, you did it, so we're gonna come up and just
chat with you about that. So I think it's real good on both ends
to allay any fears about or concerns regarding running the traffic stop. How do
they find the safe Stop app? Is it just in the app store?
So yeah, I think if an the app store, you can go on
and put it in safe Stop vehicle stop and search for it downloaded. It's
pretty simple. There's just a little bit of information have to put in.
I think the type of card you have, you know, the make and
model, and and that's it and you're ready to go. So if you
are stopped, and again it's a pilot program is going now, Yeah,
yes, we've just ramped it up and we've just started it, so okay
stopping app, so we appreciate your coverage. That will kind of get the
message out there and people can download the app. Sounds like a really cool
program. So hopefully it'll help everybody be safer and don't speed in the first
place, and you won't get pulled over right exactly, you know, obey
those traffic laws. You won't. But in the case that something happens,
you do this can be I think certainly help making the initial contract. Thanks
so much, Captain Molder. Again, it's an app called safe Stop and
it's being pilot programmed in West Hollywood right now. So if you're going to
be in the area, driving through the area, maybe download the app.
I wouldn't say go and then speed and try to get pulled over to see
if it works. But I think it's it's kind of a cool thing and
hopefully it'll, you know, calm everyone down a little bit more as those
are very very stressful times. I would say that from my personal experience.
Let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four
hour newsroom. A single engine plane has crashed on a soccer field in Wilmington's
injuring two people. The planes builled fuel onto field of Dreams, but Lle
City Fire Captain Adam Van Gerpin says, fortunately there was no fire, there
was significant damage to the aircraft and one of those patients did have to be
execated by our firefighters. LA City Councilman Tim McCosker says hundreds of kids were
on the field just twenty four hours before the crash yesterday. We have a
butane storage facility that's a short distance away. The accident, though tragic,
could have been much more tragic, he says. The FEDS are now investigating
the crash of the plane, which took off from Torrents in Wilmington. Corbin
Carson k if I News Former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson has fallen short of qualifying
for the second Republican debate. The Republican National Committee says to qualify, candidates
need a unique donor threshold, a minimum polling requirement, and signed pledges that
include supporting the party's eventual nominee. The seven candidates who were at the first
debate last month. We'll be back on stage tomorrow at the Reagan National Library
in Simi Valley. Okay, So if you're wondering what the actors and writers
are striking about, I'm thinking that maybe the broadcasters should be in on this
strike. In the Philippines, there's the GMA network. So it's not our
Good Morning America, it's the GMA network. In the Philippines, they have
introduced the country's first artificial intelligence generated sportscaster, actually sportscasters. They premiered on
Sunday, so two days ago. And what are they Well, their names
are Maya and Marco. They're generated by artificial intelligence using image generation, text
to speech AI, voice synthesis and generation, and deep learning face animated technology.
So they're sportscasters, and they're going to bring the news on NCUBA season
ninety nine, as well as updates on local and international sports station stories that
feature Filipino athletes and GMA integrated News, says the big wigs say. It
aligns with our mission to serve all communities within the nation and promote inclusivity in
our reporting. Yeah, inclusive of everybody except humanity. Maya and Marco the
first AI generated sportscasters. I'm scared right now. Let's say good morning to
ABC's tech reporter Mike Dobusky. Good morning, Mike. We've been talking AI
all morning, and Microsoft has big news on AI as well. Yeah,
that's right, Amy. So they're bringing a big update to Windows eleven,
their flagship computer operating system, today and the big sort of update is Copilot,
which is this AI system AI tool that they've cooked up that is baked
directly into this operating system. Now, if you rewind a couple of months,
you might remember Microsoft added some AI functionality to Being, which is as
search Engine. Was a really big story in the tech world. It kind
of got people to rethink how we search for things online. It provided some
really interesting and help full answers and solutions to some people, and then it
provided some occasionally very wrong and very strange answers to other people. But Microsoft
says in the months since then, it has sort of refined this technology,
put some guardrails on it, and now it's baking it directly into Windows,
which is a very popular brand, very popular product for them. It's on
a lot of computers, a lot of PC's, and a lot of enterprise
systems as well. So that the idea here is that you can press a
small shortcut command control C. It will launch a sidebar in your computer and
you can have a conversation with this. There's a little text box. You
can ask this AI questions, you can give it simple commands, and it
will respond to you in what Microsoft says is very human sounding, naturalistic language.
Of course, the caveat here is that you know, these things still
do get things wrong occasionally. It might be very convenient, but that that
is the risk that you run for that level of convenience. Okay, So
it sounds like what Microsoft is doing is just what I was mentioning about chat
GPT, that it can hear and speak spoken words and you can opt into
voice conversations with it, so that functionality has been baked into being. It's
sort of unclear you know how that's going to show up in the actual operating
system in Windows, but you're right. Yes, yesterday Open Ai had this
very big announcement some big updates coming to Chat GPT, which interestingly enough,
is built on the same large Language model GPT four as BING and Microsoft's sort
of AI efforts. So this is all really one thing that we're talking about
here. Microsoft kind of gives it its own flavor, maybe put some different
sort of rules around it, but essentially the core engine here is the same.
And yeah, the voice capability through chat GPT, you have five different
voices that you can choose from. You can speak to chat EPT and it
will talk back to you. That was a really interesting thing. Interestingly enough,
they also had a sort of image capabilities integrated into that system as well
yesterday as part of Open Aiyes announcement. Be interesting to see that make the
leap over to Microsoft systems. We haven't really seen that yet, but it
could be coming down the line. I think we're just gonna have to wait
and see. Have you had a chance to use it yet or is it
just because it's being unveiled today. You haven't seen it yet. I have
not. I mean we we saw sort of them demonstrate this last week at
their event here in New York City where they also showed off some hardware products.
But yeah, no, it's just this morning it got announced and I
have not updated it on my computer yet, and not to reveal too much
about the systems here at ABC News Radio, but we still do use Windows
ten, at least on the computer that I'm talking to you on now,
so you know, there is some updates that need to be done. It
is a free update, and you don't have to opt in, right if
you don't really want, you know, to interface with this new system.
If you're uncomfortable with AI, you can remain on sort of the existing version
of Windows eleven. Other security updates will come sort of later on. That's
kind of how Microsoft likes to stagger. It's it's you know, system updates.
But eventually you have to update because they'll stop doing the updates to the
older versions like that, which I still think seven was like one of the
best versions. Yes, I agree. Yeah, No, Windows you know
does occasionally sunset or need to sunset. It's sort of existing systems, and
a lot of this just comes back to the fact that they need to keep
their security systems current, right the scammers and hackers out there. Their systems
evolve in much the same way that the sort of consumer facing technology evolves.
That means that, you know, it's always important to sort of update your
systems, make sure that your devices are on the latest technology, the latest
stable version of the operating system that is available, and you know that really
does protect you against sort of the evolving cyber threats out there. But again,
you know, this is sort of meant to be a sort of digital
assistant from Microsoft's perspective. That ostensibly means that it won't be in your life,
you know, in an unavoidable way. It'll kind of just be there
on the side. Though. It is worth mentioning amy this technology is cophigh
as they call it is coming to more than just the Windows eleven operating system.
It's going to show up in Edge, which is their web browser.
It's going to show up an outlook, even Microsoft Paint, which is an
app that we have not heard Microsoft talk about in a very long time.
He's getting some AI functionality as well. I love him draw me a Picasso.
Right, Well, it's kind of like a little image generator sort of
idea photos also getting some AI capabilities, the ability to blur background stow years
younger. Yeah, well, you know, I mean one day, I
think. But the idea is that, you know, this is sort of,
you know, a technology that Microsoft sees as the future. It's these
is unavoidable. I think. Really where Microsoft's head at head is at here
is enterprise technology. They announced that Cope Cope Copilot is coming to Microsoft three
sixty five, which is there sort of like business focused technology, and you
know that's going to give you know, people who you know subscribe to this
technology the ability to summarize documents using AI. They can draft emails. They
had this really interesting demo where the AI was able to go into your calendar
and your emails and then draft a text message for you, which is kind
of interesting. You can see a variety of different applications there. That particular
version, the enterprise version, is going to be available in November starting at
thirty bucks a month. As I mentioned, the sort of more consumer facing
version of Windows eleven with the Copilot installed, that's available for download today.
Yeah, and then AI is going to go in and it's going to check
my calendar and go, oh, you have an appointment, and it's going
to send out a text message and it's not going to tell me I'm gonna
still miss my appointment. Well, you know, in the demo, you
do look at the text before it gets sent. They don't actually, you
know, do any of the sending you. There's still sort of an approval
process, but you know you can see down the line, you know,
in an effort to make things more convenient, that could be a thing that
happens. But as of right now, all text messages or all sort of
digital assistants really do defer to the user. You see this with things like
Sirie, things with Alexa, there is like an approval process. They don't
they won't go out and buy something for you. They won't send you a
text. But you know it could happen. It could happen, but I
would just say they try to bake it in. You're just scar I know
that it's supposed to be this cool thing. I still am very leary of
it, and I know I'm probably time. I don't think you're alone.
I think many people are still trying to kind of get their heads around this
AI technology. A lot of people are making the argument that we don't really
need this, right, search engines work just fine. Yeah, but you
know, again, the tech world is at this state of flux right now,
where you know, we're not buying computers every year, we're not buying
new phones every year. The ones we have kind of work, and we're
revaluating our relationship with social media and you know, cryptocurrencies and all these other
metaverse technologies. The tech world kind of needs a hit. It seems like
this year they really want AI to be that hit. But there's a lot
of other concerns and and and sort of lingering, you know, problems with
the technology before it really takes off. Well, you just nailed it on
the head. You said, we're not buying computer. Now the AI is
going to go, hey, your computer is not working, let's go buy
you a new one. Right, It's like, hey, this is do
a surface device that I All right, Mike Debosky, thank you so much
for your time and all the information about the new program. Of course,
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