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Here's Jason Middleton. Morning everybody. Yeah, good morning. This is wake
Up Call. It's the day before Summer Solstice. I still don't know why
I'm so jacked for Summer Holstice, but I was looking up. But you
know, Midsummer the movie has been remade like three times. I did not
know that. I've not seen the most recent one. I am dB says
in twenty nineteen it got a seven point one rating, which is for I
am dB, that's pretty good. Then there's one called Long Day's Journey at
Night twenty eighteen. I haven't seen that one year anyway, that's tomorrow.
We'll talk with Bill a little bit later about that. I know he likes
the IDEs of March. I'd like to get his opinion on the Summer Solstice.
We'll see how that goes a bit of a Franco file. So I'm
going to mention this real fast. The Tennis Court oath that was the precursor
to the French Revolution in seventeen eighty nine happened on this date verty too many
books about that. Let's get into some headlines and then we'll talk about what's
going on. Coming up for the rest of this hour, we have some
live interviews and we're going to do a roundup of AI as well. But
first, the search does continue for the five people on board a submersible vessel
that has gone missing in the North Atlantic during exhibition to the Titanic shipwreck.
The US and China may have actually started repairing their political relationship. Secretary of
State Anthony Blanket is back from a visit to Beijing and is saying as much.
Chinese President Ji Jinping is also sounding optimistic. We'll talk with ABC's Karen
Travers a little bit later this hour about that as well. And after the
federal Juneteenth holiday yesterday, the markets this morning looking a little anxious in pre
market trading, inflation, the FED recession fears, plenty of anxiety out there.
Despite gains this year, trading volume is actually pretty subdued. So we
are in a bull market, but the prediction is it's not going to last
for as long as past bull markets. We'll unpack that a little bit later
this hour as well. Let's start with some of the other stories coming out
of the KFI twenty four hour news room. As always we do lead local
La County Sheriff's deputies have shot a man in Diamond Bar who was wearing body
armor and firing an assault rifle. Neighbors say the man lived with his mother
and the two got into an argument yesterday and the mom was stabbed. She
and her son were both taken to the hospital. California's Police Standards Commission says
thousands of cops could be fired annually under a new state law. Officials say
a new report estimates up to thirty five hundred officers a year could be decertified
or suspended for serious misconduct. Governor Newsom signed the law in twenty twenty one,
giving the Commission the ability to strip officers of their police powers. It
went into effect in January. Supporters say it gives the Commission the ability to
weed out bad cops and make sure they're never hired again in California or other
states. Police unions have said the laws nothing more than an anti cop witch
hunt, especially since the panel hearing the cases is made up of anticop activists.
Steve Gregory Kanga Fine News the La City Council was expected to take up
a motion calling for the election of a new president pro tem to replace current
Price. Council President Paul Kricorian introduced the motion last week following embezzlement and perjury
charges against Price. Krikorian says the council will also decide whether to suspend Price.
A park will soon be built along the Santa Anna River trail where a
homeless camp once discouraged visitors. Annaheim spokeswoman Aaron Ryan says the park is part
of a larger project that includes housing, restaurants, and an outdoor amphitheater.
Now, after we worked with the county to find temporary housing, permanent housing,
or even shelter for the people living on the riverbed, we were able
to reactivate this space, she says. The city will pay two hundred thousand
dollars for the three acre property. It will also have shaded areas, exercise
equipment of Butterfly Museum, and horse trails. Gas stoves in southern California may
be emitting more cancer causing chemicals than secondhand smoke. We actually how much benzing
is formed from the combustion itself, right when you're turning the stove on Stanford
University. Lead researcher Yunaikastan says they studied eighty seven homes across Colorado and California.
The benzing can drift into other rooms of the house. Researchers measured emissions
from a single gas cooktop burner or gas oven set to three hundred and fifty
degrees. We have all the doors inside the house open, and we find
that in many cases, the levels in the bedroom, you know, lander
for several hours after that oven is off. He says, forty seven million
homes in the nation used gas or propane cooktops. Corbin Carson k if I
News Right now we have ABC's Jim Ryan on the line. So the number
of homeless or unhoused in the US is growing. The causes not as obvious.
I'll let you take it from here. Unhoused numbers are up, Jim.
Well, they are all across the country, Jason, but especially in
California. You know, your state has spent about seventeen billion dollars in the
past four years to help to deal with the situation. But it continues to
get worse. Not just there though, but in other places as well,
urban areas, suburbs, and in rural areas. That's what the Wall Street
Journal has found in looking at areas around the country. Each community each state
reports its own numbers those that are compiled by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, and Hudd says that if these numbers hold up nationally, that there
could be a dramatic rise in homelessness in the coming year. And because of
the expiration, for example, of the moratoy amount of fictions. During the
pandemic, you could not evict people from a rental property because so many people
who were unemployed. You couldn't work. You might be working from home if
you do have a job, but that now has gone away. Comparatively speaking,
are we looking at it like a more significant increase in homelessness this year
than we've seen in the past few years, not just because of COVID,
just overall. Yeah, And it seems to be exceeding the numbers so we
saw before the pandemic, So there's almost a catching up process, you know.
For example, down in Phoenix, rents have gone up about sixty eight
percent over the last years and it's got a seven percent homelessness increase. That
similar figures hold for the rest of the country, where homeless or where rents
have risen, where home prices have gone up, mortgage is more expensive,
and so yeah, people are finding themselves on the street and in some cases,
well, okay, so pre pandemic levels. Did HUD or Wall Street
Journal extrapolate as to or give some context around what we might see as other
predictors around homelessness for later this year? Well, you know, there are
all sorts of factors that come into it, the Westerners on one cause,
certainly immigration numbers are a factor here as well, And really it's just sort
of a matter of each individual community coming up with some kind of solutions.
There are federal programs in place obviously to help deal with it, but one
now is coming under attack in Washington. It's called Housing First. It's been
in place for a couple of decades. It was supported by former President George
W. Bush, by former President to Obama. It it would allow for
subsidized housing to go to people and then they could go into treatment or into
job training. Salmon Washington are saying that it should be the other way around,
that people should get job training, get substance abuse treatment before they can
move into subsidized housing. So the debate's just beginning on that one. Jason,
Wow, okay, so politics still has to play. Ye. Did
you find any other predictors or anything that stood out in this study, because
honestly, I have been able to read all of it, but when it
comes from the journal and it comes from data from HUD, I kind of
rely on that, well, sure, and I think that's the best you
have to go on. And individual communities, so some are slower to report
their numbers than others, But yeah, I think that it's's It was interesting
to me at least to see that these numbers continue to rise and then politics
coming into play. That never seems to bode well for a situation like this.
That's true. ABC's Jim Ryan, thanks you so much for joining us
this morning. Thanks Jason. We have a lot of news this morning,
so let's get back to some of it. Coming out of the kf I
twenty four hour news room. The La School District is considering ending a program
that aims to help kids learn how to read. Former Superintendent Austin Butner started
Primary Promise three years ago and says it would be a mistake if the district
ends at The program allows students who are struggling to get one on one instruction
from specialized teachers. Current Superintendent Alberto Carbalo says he wants all classroom teachers to
learn the same skills as primary promise teachers. At least six people have been
shot at a Juneteenth festival in Milwaukee. The aftermath yesterday was recorded on Facebook
Live. The person who posted it tried to comfort a sobbing girl who was
trying to get ahold of her family after her friend was shot in the neck.
Jesus, Jesus, come on, honey, come on, I got
to your mom on her way. Police say the shooter was a seventeen year
old boy, but they are investigating to see if anyone else may have been
involved. Rescuers say time is running out to find a submersible missing in a
remote area of the Atlantic Ocean. The five people onboard run a mission Sunday
to document the wreckage of the Titanic. Coastguard Rear Admiral John Wilger says a
search and rescue operation started Sunday night when the submersible was reported overdue the use
of sonar billies and sonar on the ship that's out there to listen for any
sounds that we can detect in the water column. The submersible had a ninety
six hour oxygen supply. The site where the Titanic sank in nineteen twelve is
more than two miles deep. Russia launched an overnight aerial assault on Kiev and
other cities in Ukraine, targeting infrastructure and military facilities. Ukraine said it shot
down thirty two of the thirty five drones fired. No casualties have been reported
so far, but critical infrastructure was hit in Leviv in western Ukraine. That's
according to the city's administration there. Earlier, Hannah Melar, Ukraine's deputy defense
minister, said the biggest blow in his country's counter offensive is yet to come.
President Biden says relations between America and China are on the right trail.
Following a meeting between Anthony Blincoln, America's secretary of State, and Jijin paying,
China's president during Lincoln's visit to Beijing that ended yesterday, the two countries
agreed to keep communication lines open to avoid all out conflict. China's foreign minister
is planning to visit Washington in the next few months. Social media influencer Andrew
Tap has been ordered to face trial in Romania on charges of rape, human
trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Tap his brother,
Tristan, and two others have been under house arrest since their arrest in
December. They deny the allegations. Dozens of Pride flags have been damaged down
at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City. Police say it's the third
time the landmark has been targeted this month. Officials say the space was vandalized
last Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. The Stonewall National Monument was dedicated in
twenty sixteen. It's the first US national monument honoring LGBTQ history. The list
of intended recipients of suspicious white powder letters is growing beyond those in Kansas.
Similar letters were all to address to high profile figures like former President Trump and
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Now, so far, the letters have been
harmless, according to the FBI. President Biden starts day two of his California
visit today. He plans to meet with artificial intelligence experts during a forum today
to discuss benefits and risks see That's a Legit headline. Yesterday, he revealed
another six hundred million dollars will be spent to address climate change. Former President
Trump is ripping Quinnipiac and Fox News for a poll that shows him behind President
Biden in a presidential matchup. Trump wrote on truth Social that it's just not
an old pole. It is a bad pole. At five thirty three ish,
we're gonna check with ABC's Karen Travers about the politics of the seemingly kickstarted
relationship between the US and China after a Secretary of State Anthony Blincoln returned from
a two day trip to Beijing. But right now on the line with US,
we have ABC correspondent Inez delicatea Good morning in z Good morning. This
has been all over the news since Sunday, and I'd like to check in
with you on this. The deep seacraft that has five people aboard that was
going to go look for the Titanic is still missing, correct and what can
you give miss an update? That's right? Yeah, So we're talking about
a submersible. It takes people to see the wreckage of the Titanic deep underwater.
It has gone missing. We know it was carrying five people on board,
and a search and rescue operation is now underway. It was first reported
missing on Sunday night, but it's support vessel, Canadian research icebreaker known as
the Polar Prints, lost contact with it about an hour and forty five minutes
later. We should note that the difference between the submarine and the submersible that
while submarine can operate fully on its own, a submersible requires a ship to
launch and recover the vessel. So in this case, the submersible is being
operated by a company known as ocean Gate Expeditions, and an advisor to that
company said, the submersible does have a ninety six our oxygen supply, good
news and bad news depending on how you look at it. Good news and
that they do have some oxygen there for a few days, but that's really
just four days worth of oxygen. So the quock really ticking here. And
now, as far as who is on board, we understand that the ocean
Gates expeditions to the Titanic wreck site might include at times archaeologists marine biologists.
The company that will also bring along people who pay so they are then known
as mission specialists. In this case, we understand there was one pilot and
four mission specialists on board. And just to give you a sent that the
price tag. So the initial group of tourists in twenty twenty one who went
on this trip paid between one hundred thousand dollars in one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars speech to go on the trip again. All five people here have been
named, so we know that UK business and Hamish Harding was among them.
He is a billionaire adventurer. We also know that the French immersible pilot Paul
Henry Nasholay was there, as was Pakistani thisman and investors Shazada to Rude,
along with his son Suleman and the CEO of Ocean Gate Expeditions Stopped and Rush.
Now, first of all, thank you for parsing submersible and Submarine.
I'll be checking my copy for the rest of today. Uh, these are
not cheap tickets to get on these and that's why I think we're mentioning the
guests that are on it or the people that are missing. Um, how
much do these tickets cost for a trip like this to the Titanic. Yes,
it's again that first group who went in twenty twenty one, and we
should point out this is the third annual trip that the that the Ocean Gates
Expeditions has conducted to the Titanic, but this, this first group of tourists
that went back in twenty twenty one paid between one hundred thousand to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars per ticket UM to get on board. And yeah,
I think the distinction, which I also the assumption this morning that it was
just a submarine UM. But the distinction is important between submarine and submersible because
these I mean, it emphasizes just how UM import and it is for the
submersible to maintain contact with the support ship. And so the fact that that
they've lost all contact here, that they're not able to communicate with the submersible
is really a problem, problematic. The submersible is very dependent on the support
ship. And in fact, there was a a CBS reporter who was on
this trip last year and he talked about how they're you know, his experience
on the trip and how there is no um GPS underwater, how how the
way that the two vessels, so the support ship and the submersible are able
to communicate is via text message and in his case, in the CBS reporters
situation, UM the communications actually did break down and the submersible he was on
never actually found the Titanic wreck because the surface ship wasn't able to communicate that
information to the submersible again via text message. So, um, it just
goes to show that the fact that they've lost contact here is certainly alarming.
Yes. Absolutely, this is a Seattle based company that makes this submersible.
It's a twenty two foot carbon fiber titanium craft and they kind of prided themselves
on using almost retail ready equipment when making these. There's no regulation around these,
so who all is involved in the rescue effort around this? So it's
interesting. The rescue is being led by the US Coastguard in Boston. We
know that Canadian that Coastguard vessels and military aircraft are helping out. Again,
this happened off the coast of Saint John's and Canada. Additional resources are set
to arrive in the coming days, But officials say the challenge is that the
vessel went missing in such a remote area and if that makes it harder to
carry out the search, but that all available assets are being deployed as far
as the different scenarios that experts are discussing. So the Associated Press folk to
a professor of marine engineering at University College of London. He's that submersibles typically
have a drop weight, which is a mass that they can release in the
case of an emergency to bring them up to the surface using buoyancy. So
that would probably be a best case scenario. We would find these submersible kind
of just spotting along along the surface of the water somewhere and if that's you
know, what happened, then I'll five crew members on board would likely be
okay. But there could be other scenarios. So this professor talking about how
another scenario could be a leak in the pressure hole that in that case the
prognosis would not be good because he says, if the submersible has gone down
to the seabed and can't get back up under its own power, then options
are very limited. That there are very few vessels that could get that deep.
The divers certainly wouldn't be able to get to the vessel if it was
on the seabed, and then as far as the vessels that could get to
the submersible on the seabed, you know, there's very few of them getting
them over to the submersible. In time might take a while, and then
once they're down there, it's getting the submersible black up to the surface would
be a whole other issue. So that's probably a worst case scenario. What
they're hoping is not happening, which again would be the submersible on the floor
on the seabed. Okay, thank you for the update on this and as
very much appreciated, Thank you ABC News correspondent and as delicate Tera there,
let's get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFIN newsroom.
I didn't mention the name of the company. It's ocean Gate Expeditions, is
the owner and creator of the submersible. We were just discussing some of the
stories coming out of the KFI twenty four newsroom. One person has been killed
and two have been critically hurt in Valley Gland and what LA police say appears
to be a car to car shooting. It was reported at about ten last
night at Coldwater Canyon and Victory Boulevard. A majority of Americans say they feel
like they don't belong. Belonging is an important ingredient in our workplaces, in
our local communities, in our country. Director for the Center for inclusion and
belonging. Kim Serranos is two thirds of people surveyed feel excluded from their workplace,
sixty eight percent from their country, and three of four from their local
community. When someone starts to experience greater blogging in one life setting, there's
this really positive spillover effects to their overall belogging. Toronto says. The study
suggests investing in belonging may help counter the increasing division and polarization in our country.
Amy King KFI News. More than one million people in the US have
been dropped from Medicaid during a post pandemic purge of the roles. The Associated
Press says some states have dropped coverage for more than half the people whose eligibility
cases were decided in April or May. States were prohibited from removing people from
Medicaid during the pandemic, but that band was lifted in April. Tropical Storm
Brett has formed over the Central Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said yesterday,
but the storm packs wins of about forty miles an hour and is moving
west right now. It's expected to strengthen over the next couple of days.
Too early to tell if it's going to impact the US, though. The
White House has set to hold a series of events this week to mark the
one year anniversary of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, and Pope Francis
met with President Biden's climate on boy John Kerry at the vaticand yesterday Kerrie told
reporters he found the Pontiff to be in great spirits and in great form.
Kerry was the first official to have a private audience with the Pope since his
recent discharge from the hospital. News has brought to you by Direct Buyers.
A little bit later this hour, we're going to crack some of those clickbait
headlines around artificial intelligence. But right now we have ABC's Karen Travers on the
line to talk with this about US China relations. Welcome in, Karen,
Hey, good mornings. It's been about a week since we've spoken with you.
And since then, Yeah, Anthony Blincoln, Secretary of State, was
over in Beijing and came back. Can you give us an update on how
these relations are playing out since his return. Yeah, so you know,
he's still making his way back to Washington, and when he gets back here,
who will give the presidents a full briefing? According to the White House,
but for now, the president's getting updated by national security officials. And
the President said yesterday in California's reporters that Blincoln has been doing a hell of
a job on this visit to China. It was a quick, quick visit.
They packed in a lot in just about a day and a half,
but that included a meeting with China's president g face to face. And this
is a meeting that wasn't on the official schedule. It was a lot of
will they won't they sit down together. It was confirmed just an hour before
they met, and they sat down for thirty five minutes. Were told that
they talked about Taiwan sentinel lethal aid to Russia for its war against Ukraine,
something that China has said it will not provide. And Lincoln afterwards said that
the meetings were very candid, very in depth, and in places constructive.
He also said there were places that quote, we have a lot more work
to do. For his part, she called it very good that both sides
made progress, but not a lot of specifics about where the progress was made.
But the White House was calling it a good step forward. Yeah,
isn't it usually peer to peer when it comes to diplomatic admissions like this.
What I mean is a president meets a president, a secretary of state meets
a foreign minister or a secretary of state kind of thing. For this to
happen to Anthony B. Lincoln last second is kind of a positive spin,
right, Yeah, yeah, you know he did meet with his counterpart and
other senior officials there. But you're right to have that high level meeting with
the president is significant and certainly feels like they're laying the groundwork for a meeting
between President Biden and President She when there is a World Leader summit in the
United States this fall San Francisco. That would be the next most likely chance
for them to sit down, not to stay. Some schedules and a lot
of things before that wouldn't happen. But you know that certainly had this sense
from the White House. They wouldn't confirm that last week, but that they
were doing this to try and change the trajectory the relationship. So those reset
things so that the conditions will write for a potential Biden she meeting in the
fall. Hey, Karen, I want to kind of change gears because President
Biden is here on the West Coast. Here's two day visit to California right
now. Can you give us an update on what's expected out of today his
last day of the visit. Yeah, a lot of fundraising again. He
did two fundraisers yesterday, two more today in California in the Bay Area,
and also an event on artificial intelligence with some leading experts in that field,
something the White House has said is a top priority for them, talking about
using the opportunity of the technology, but also managing the risks of that technology.
The White House was to say, the campaign is very focused on fundraising
right now. Four total fundraisers for this stop in California. He has more
scheduled in Chicago, New York, and Maryland before the end of the month.
It's not doing campaign rallies just yet, but the focus is definitely on
bringing a campaign cash. Yeah. Our California seems to be a political atm.
What's the hiccup of Senator Tuberville though, and then I'll have to let
you go. I know you're up against school. Yeah. He is holding
up dozens of military appointments, including the latest one for the Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, because of the Pentagon's policy on abortion, where people
if they're living in a state where it's illegal, they can get funding to
go to a state where it would be legal. And this is something that
Tommy Tuberville has been blocking some military appointments nominations. One senator can do that
in the Senate. That's how the power of one senator. The White House
has said that this is a significant NA security risk and have urged him to
give up the blockade of these nominees. Karen Travers always a pleasure to speak
with you. Thank you for your time this morning in the political heat check.
Have a great day. Maybee's Karen Travers, White Hell's correspondent. Let's
get back to some of the stories coming out of the KFI twenty four hour
news room. LA is facing a one hundred million dollar lawsuit for the alleged
wrongful death of a black man tasted several times by LAPD officers in Venice.
The suit calls the tazing of Keenan Anderson unreasonable deadly force. Attorney Carl Douglas
says racial bias played a role in officers deeming Anderson a threat. He did
nothing to justify being tased more than six times. Douglas said yesterday he plans
to disprove the Corners report that Anderson died of cocaine use and in a large
tart. Anderson was constrained by officers when he ran from the scene of a
crash in January in La Blake trolley. K if I News Foodie Land is
back at the Rose Bowl. The three day festival next weekend will offer food
news for more than one hundred and seventy vendors. Organizers say the carefully curated
lineup will people a taste of flavors from across the globe. Entry is six
bucks kids five and under. A free food is extra, though, keep
that in mind as you're budgeting. Anaheim is buying land near Angel Stadium to
create a park where a homeless camp once get people away from the Santa Ana
River Trail. People just felt that they couldn't walk or bike or even ride
their horses along the trail anymore. Anaheim spokeswoman Aaron Ryan says the city will
pay two hundred thousand dollars for the property to create a three acre park,
which will include shade areas, exercise equipment, a butterfly museum, and trails
for horses, and it will fit into an overall vision for reimagining the Santa
Ana River here as it goes through Anaheim. That project's expected to include new
restaurants, housing, and an outdoor amphitheater. The parks set to be complete
by twenty twenty six. In Anaheim. Corbin Carson kof I News, I
like the butterfly aspected that that's gore to run until ten pm. June twenty
third, the twenty fifth, the mother of two kids in San Diego County
killed when they ran into traffic on the seventy eight Freeway has been arrested for
dui. The mom had stopped the car on the side of the road Sunday
to get luggage that had flown off. Firefighters say the children are believed to
have been younger than twelve and were hit by cars going full speed. At
least six people have been shot at a Juneteenth festival in Milwaukee. The six
wounded are between fourteen and nineteen. The alleged shooter is seventeen. Police Chief
Jeffrey Norman says such a shooting has never happened before during his eight years as
commander and Juneteenth organizer. No handgun, no weapon to destruct. You should
be in a half are young ones. It's important that all of us do
something. He says. Changes need to be made to protect the children and
the community. Travelers have been warned to expect flight delays and cancelations this summer.
The FAA says it's giving airlines the ability to cut back on operations during
the peak travel time, which is says could be made worse by traffic controller
staffing shortages. Delta Airline CEO Ed Bastion says the company has already seen record
advance bookings for flights, and it nixed a previous plan to get passenger capacity
back to pre pandemic levels. Airlines have already cut about ten percent of scheduled
flights. I've seen it reported that we are short about three thousand air traffic
controllers as well. A man who lives at an RV has been fatally shot
in South la. The man was found on the ground yesterday on a cul
de sac where his RV was parked. Investigators say three men walked to the
end of the cul de sac, said something to the man, and then
shot him. A man in San Jose has had a rough one hundredth birthday.
His family posted on next door asking neighbors to dress up their dogs and
parade them in front of their house to help celebrate their dad's milestone birthday.
About two hundred dogs in costumes and their owners showed up Saturday to wish Robert
Moore a happy birthday. More pet every single one of those dogs. A
couple of more questions, a couple more headlines, maybe some questions. The
President of Uruguay has withdrawn a proposal to melt down a swastika in bronze eagle
and turned it into a dove of peace. Local Jewish leaders supported the plan,
but it was quickly hit with criticism from some saying it devalues history.
The eight hundred pound relic was recovered from a sunken Nazi ship in two thousand
and six and displayed until critics argued it glorified Nazis. Since then, there's
been a lot of back and forth on what to do with it. Some
say it should be given to a museum, Others say it should just be
destroyed. And President Biden is hosting a forum about artificial intelligence with tech leaders
in San Francisco. The administration is trying to figure out how to regulate AI,
looking for ways to nurture its potential for economic growth and national security and
protect against potential dangers. The industry itself is kind of asking for regulation.
It might be a bit of virtue signaling. It might not be, it
might be something a little bit different. Florida federal judge has just ruled that
the criminal trial of former President Trump for his alleged illegal retention of classified documents
is That trial is going to begin on August fourteenth, but legal experts do
not expect the trial to begin that early, given the time needed to resolve
legal issues before a jury starts hearing testimony, being presented with evidence, etc.
The list of intended recipients of suspicious white powder letters is growing beyond those
in Kansas. Authorities including the FBI, have been investigating, as roughly one
hundred letters have been sent to Kansas state officials since late last week. Two
new letters at least showed up, one for former President Trump and one for
Supreme Court Justice Thomas. Google is looking for suppliers to assemble some of its
Pixel smartphones in India. This is a very much like Apple's strategy, so
the alphabet company is attempting to decrease its dependence on China. Google has begun
conversations with several companies, including foxcon which is Apple's lead iPhone technology partner in
India, so business coming in the door for Foxconna. Looks like another round
of severe weather is set to hit parts of the southern US later today.
Heavy storms are expected to track into states like Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi
with the potential for damaging wind gusts, large hail, and flooding, and
all of this could reach the Florida Peninsula by tomorrow. It is five fifty
on your wake up call, and we're going to close this morning's wake up
call with a whip around look at artificial intelligence. I have a weekend show.
It's called Macro. I'll just go ahead and say it's on Sundays at
two o'clock. But the reason I mentioned that is because every week we are
dedicating at least one segment to artificial intelligence updates. Because ever since January,
the tsunami of headlines coming in on this and the rate of these headlines is
just can be overwhelming. And of course when you have an overwhelming news event
or a cultural event like this one, which is also a business event,
well then social media can just light up with clickbait, scary, stupid headlines.
So we're gonna be talking about some of that right now, because let's
start with clickbait headlines himself. Last month, okay, the Artifact news app
introduced an option where users can flag an article as clickbait, so using AI
to fight AI clickbait now The app founded by his Kevin Seistrum and Mike Krieger
are their names. The new feature let's AI rewrite a headline for you if
you come across such an article. The app maker said that if a user
marks a title as clickbait, the app calls on a GP two GPT four
type model to rewrite the headline. So, at the time of launching the
clickbait flagging feature, Artifacts said that it has a manual process to vet articles
to mark them as clickbait after multiple users report them. Now, with the
new update, if an article is marked as clickbait by the Artifact team,
AI will rewrite the headline for all users. People will see a star icon
next to the headline to indicate that AI has rewritten it. I can only
hope that this has ripple effects through other news sources, let's call them,
which can be co opted to become clickbait sources as well. Also over the
weekend, there's a podcast that's called This Weekend Startups. It's hosted by Jason
Callicanis. I've interviewed Jason several times. Jason was a former Silicon Valley journalist
and then he became an Angel investor. He sank a few thousand dollars a
few thousand dollars into Uber like in week two of Uber, and since then
he's moved to the East Coast and bought a bunch of teslas. So this
weekend he had Airbnb CEO Brian Chesney on and they talked about AI and I
thought a couple of clips around this would be useful, So we'll start with
a clip one. I think this is going to create millions of startups.
I think that like entrepreneurship is going to be a boon. I think there's
gonna be millions more. I think anyone can essentially do the equivalent of what
software engineering only allowed you to do only five years ago. It's going to
be awesome for many people. It's going to be wildly distropeed for others.
Albert Einstein used up is saying the best way to keep her balance in a
bicycle is to keep moving, and I think the best way to keep her
balance in the world of AI is to keep moving forward and just adopted tools.
Don't fight it now and see where it takes us. Right. That's
Airbnb CEO Chesney, and you heard it in there. That was Jason Calicana's
talking. It's estimated that AI is going to be able to give back to
almost everybody about thirty percent of their lives to do what they want to do
with They can automate some things. So when you see the destruction of jobs
and that kind of concern coming through too, well, that came up in
this podcast as well. I think trying to ban AI is like trying to
ban electricity. I just you're going to be on the wrong side of history.
The genius out of the bottle, you can't put it back in the
bottle. And I think that here's the problem. I think it's easier to
imagine what jobs that you displaced than what jobs would be created, because of
course we can imagine everything that now AI can do. We can't imagine everything
we hasn't yet done, because that requires us to conceive of what doesn't exist.
But if we remember that at all other periods in history, technology created
jobs, it didn't exist, This can do that too. It doesn't mean
we should be blindly ignorant or not be concerned. There's a lot of concerns
I have of AI. I'm concerned how fast this is going, and it's
a site prepared for the speed. But I think from a creative standpoint,
as a person who went to renown school design, I would tell the creative
community, you only have to be worried if you don't want to be a
part of it, because this is a creative tool for you. Yeah,
it's the speed part that he mentioned right there that I kind of almost stepped
on because that seems to be the concern for everybody. So we had chat
GPT creator on Capitol Hill talking about please regulate us. Ryan Chesney here,
Airbnb CEO, is integrating GET into their experience and their business. They are
already seeing an increase in productivity and he's looking to expand his payroll because of
AI coming in doing a lot of the mundane stuff, allowing for more creative
and human thinking to take over some of the other things. That one more
quick clip and then I'll give you a kicker. I keep discovering new uses
for CHATYPT. Here's the coolest use I've discovered. I asked chat GPDA question
at the most funmental level, what business RB in? And then it spits
out a not super inciful answer like a music business of travel and experiences and
blah blah blah, And then I the cool thing that you should do?
This is asked to follow up and keep asking follow upstill can't do it any
and so I ask what's a more fundamental business? And it goes, actually,
a more funnel business airbus in this is sharing And I go, okay,
but what's a more funale business? BENEFO is a more fundamal business is
human connection? And I go, what's more fun of it? And it
just keeps you going and you but you start to learn and what it teaches
you. It's first principles. First principles is something that Elon Musk and Steve
Jobs used to talk a lot about, and it's basically, ask yourself the
origin and question for your reason of being when it comes to a business.
So seeing that if you drill into chat GPT a little bit, it can
help maybe start a new conversation and internal conversation. But at the same time,
you got to get familiar with it. So I would just encourage everybody
to try it, get used to it. It's a tool just like anything
else, but you have to know how to use that tool in order for
its to not be dangerous. To that point of asking the follow up question,
I found this when this morning, Twitch users are gathering for an audience
with this all answering always streaming. It's called the AI Jesus chatbot. So
a user asked this chat GPT style AI program about the AI's marriage plans.
Here's what the AI said, I remember you expressing some frustrations about not having
a girlfriend. As an AI version of Jesus, I don't have personal experiences
like humans, so I won't be getting married. However, I can understand
your interest in romantic relationships, and I'm here to help you with any questions
or advice you need. Isn't that helpful? Tyler doesn't think it's helpful.
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