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Speaker 1: Update being given right now on the fatal crash last
Speaker 1: night where a US Blackhawk military helicopter collided with an
Speaker 1: American Airlines regional jet. Everyone feared dead the crash on
Speaker 1: approach to Reagan National Airport in DC. Everybody ended up
Speaker 1: in the Potomac. Thirty bodies thus far have been recovered.
Speaker 1: There were sixty four people on the plane and three
Speaker 1: on the chopper.
Speaker 3: It's I told you.
Speaker 2: Once it starts and light out the footage and that's
Speaker 2: just sad.
Speaker 1: Potomac is thirty five degrees right now. So even if
Speaker 1: somebody managed to survive the fireball, which was bad going
Speaker 1: into thirty five degree water. You're not gonna last very
Speaker 1: long in that in the darkness of night. It's just
Speaker 1: a horrible situation. We do have a live feed of
Speaker 1: the continuing coverage on our Facebook page if you wanted
Speaker 1: a quick, easy way to get more on that, all right,
Speaker 1: check it out. Stuff. The big news this week has
Speaker 1: been the announcement in the AI push from this outfit
Speaker 1: called deep Seek Chinese Ai, which made this announcement earlier
Speaker 1: in the week that they have accomplished what a new
Speaker 1: initiative in the US was announced and set to do
Speaker 1: this week, and that was, you know, be the best, fastest,
Speaker 1: most efficient AI available. That they have done it first
Speaker 1: and for a fraction of the cost.
Speaker 3: The numbers that were thrown out for the US were
Speaker 3: gonna be huge.
Speaker 1: Billions and billions of dollars to do it here. And
Speaker 1: then uh this deep Seek says, oh well, we've kind
Speaker 1: of already got that going here. It's only available in
Speaker 1: mainland China. But wait, now there's a new development.
Speaker 3: All right, give it to me.
Speaker 1: Another Chinese ar AI outfit called Ali Baba has just
Speaker 1: rolled out their Quinn two point five max, which they say.
Speaker 3: Smokes Deep Seek.
Speaker 2: Oh well, you said there's another update. I thought you
Speaker 2: were going to say they were just joking. Well, you know,
Speaker 2: like meet Chinese, me play joke, Nico Bping, you know
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: I thought maybe it was like.
Speaker 1: Psych So another Chinese AI developer, Ali Baba, says, there
Speaker 1: Quinn two point five Max Uh leaves Deep Seek in
Speaker 1: the dust.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: The takeaway here is this is either Chinese propaganda or
Speaker 1: it's true. And we got some series catching up to
Speaker 1: do in this country when we thought we had a
Speaker 1: huge head start.
Speaker 2: And three why would they name something from China from China?
Speaker 2: Ali Baba.
Speaker 1: There is one other development as it relates to this
Speaker 1: open AI, which is, you know, the big deal here
Speaker 1: in the US is now alleging that Deep Seek used
Speaker 1: its models for its AI training. Oh, you don't say
Speaker 1: that the Chinese are stealing it information from us.
Speaker 2: Here it's all those weather or those big tinfoil balloons
Speaker 2: up there. And then it's do you know and the
Speaker 2: drones that nobody's talking about in Jersey, And yeah, they
Speaker 2: got all the they were tiktoks or the ais.
Speaker 1: The We did get an update on the drone stuff
Speaker 1: in the first press briefing of the new administration it
Speaker 1: was just kind of a random update that just about
Speaker 1: every one of those drone sightings, and the investigation says
Speaker 1: they were all cleared and approved by the FAA to
Speaker 1: be operating, and that it was not the me Somehow,
Speaker 1: I think there's probably a little bit more to us still.
Speaker 1: The new iOS eighteen point three update will include Starlink
Speaker 1: satellite connectivity for select iPhone users, which is good news
Speaker 1: because initially it sounded like it was just going to
Speaker 1: be available to Android users with Samsung phones through T Mobile.
Speaker 1: Now it looks like some iOS Apple products are going
Speaker 1: to be able to take advantage of the Starlink satellite connectivity.
Speaker 1: You know, you find yourself in a remote area of
Speaker 1: the world where there's not good connectivity.
Speaker 2: Yeah, boom, you're out hiking and you know, maybe something
Speaker 2: came across an injury or laying there with a snapped leg.
Speaker 1: So still early early on in this, but it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's coming fast too. So Comcast announcing this week they
Speaker 1: are rolling out in ultra low lag tech that could
Speaker 1: fix the Internet. Lag of course is a big complaint
Speaker 1: mainly of gamers. Yeah, they are testing this new ultra
Speaker 1: low lag connectivity in Atlanta Chicago, Colorado Springs, Philadelphia, Rockville, Maryland,
Speaker 1: and San Francisco. The technology powering this upgrade is based
Speaker 1: on a standard called L four S, which stands for
Speaker 1: low latency, low loss scalable throughput bottom line for this.
Speaker 1: If you're a gamer, this is great news to have
Speaker 1: this technology eventually reaching probably everybody at some point, and
Speaker 1: also those of you who may not necessarily be gamers,
Speaker 1: would like to do things like FaceTime, you know how
Speaker 1: that can be kind of choppy, sometimes an awkward and
Speaker 1: maybe the voice doesn't exactly match. It's going to be
Speaker 1: more like just watching a show. Now when you're on FaceTime.
Speaker 1: We've got this low lag capability. Cool, So it's cool.
Speaker 3: Like you said, gamers, they're the ones really profiting.
Speaker 1: Let's see, there is a new proposal to try to
Speaker 1: to end the piracy that's going on here in the
Speaker 1: United States and around the globe with you know these
Speaker 1: offshore pirate websites where you can go and get just
Speaker 1: about any kind of movie or show or whatever with
Speaker 1: really no problems here into us. Even though currently ISPs,
Speaker 1: your service providers are supposed to give you a warning
Speaker 1: should they notice you are using a you know that
Speaker 1: type of material. There's no teeth to that, and nothing's happening.
Speaker 1: Now they're proposing a law in a partnership with the
Speaker 1: actual movie industry that would force providers to block access
Speaker 1: to foreign piracy websites. The bill would also force DNS
Speaker 1: providers to block sites, which you would make it much
Speaker 1: more difficult to get everything for free in this country. Again,
Speaker 1: it's just being proposed at this pace.
Speaker 2: So basically it's being proposed that now they'll possibly do
Speaker 2: something because they're being greased with a little from the
Speaker 2: movie industry.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, their motivation and monetary wise.
Speaker 1: Everything you know, how that goes scratch my back, I
Speaker 1: scratch shorts. You know. A big complaint from the music
Speaker 1: industry is that they get ripped off when it comes
Speaker 1: to getting paid for streaming. For that, and most of
Speaker 1: these artists will put a bullseye on Spotify saying Spotify
Speaker 1: is the worst, they're the worst with paying us. Well,
Speaker 1: Spotify now is doing a little shall we say public
Speaker 1: relations info here, saying that it paid ten billion dollars
Speaker 1: to music industry artists last year alone. The company added
Speaker 1: that it has given nearly sixty billion in industry payouts
Speaker 1: since its inception. So this is you know, one of
Speaker 1: those he said, she said, debates that's going to go on.
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking to myself, if you're paying out ten billion,
Speaker 2: how much are you making right?
Speaker 3: God right, exactly a lot, is the answer. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And this is interesting. You know, the tech giants have
Speaker 1: seemed to all buddied up to the new administration, including
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, who has done a total one to eighty
Speaker 1: on his feelings towards Donald Trump. It's become even more
Speaker 1: evident now that Meta, his company, has agreed to pay
Speaker 1: and settle a lawsuit over the Facebook and Instagram suspensions
Speaker 1: that were slapped on President Trump back years ago, took
Speaker 1: him off those platforms. Well, they sued and they have
Speaker 1: now settled for twenty five million dollars. So Meta is
Speaker 1: going to pay him twenty five million dollars. Twenty two
Speaker 1: million of that will go towards building a future presidential
Speaker 1: library after his term is complete. The rest will go
Speaker 1: to handle legal expenses.
Speaker 3: That's cool.
Speaker 2: And I don't care which side you you're for or
Speaker 2: whichever banning anybody like that, even if you ban the
Speaker 2: other president, that's just wrong.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: There's uh, the thing called free speech. And you know
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: That's why I think that anybody from any side looked
Speaker 2: at that and was kind of like this, this is fishy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know it's it's nobody wants to to
Speaker 1: be muzzled. Is everything you read seeing here accurate? No?
Speaker 3: No, never will be exactly.
Speaker 1: And if you kind of have that attitude, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little easier to digest this type stuff. But
Speaker 1: interesting to see these tech giants who once you know,
Speaker 1: were mortal enemies have now kind of changed their tune.
Speaker 2: Of bits kind of what's good for you, right, kind
Speaker 2: of like the music thing.
Speaker 3: Scratch my back, I scratch yours. You know how it goes.
Speaker 2: Get my old construction days when I was building high
Speaker 2: rises in.
Speaker 3: Chicago, pushed that permit through, right, Ali did it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you had high rise days.
Speaker 2: You know I did something. I had a different invention.
Speaker 2: It was called low Rise. It was an underground movement
Speaker 2: built underground.
Speaker 3: No rise. You're sleeping in on the weekends.
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