Hello sunshine. I'm Ky Wire. This is CNN
10. Hope you had an awesome weekend and
got to celebrate all of the wonderful
mother figures in your life. I am pumped
to be back here with you. Remember that
complacency is the constant enemy. Let's
learn one thing. Do something that makes
us a little better today than we were
yesterday. Let's get our energy up and
start this week off strong. We start
today with the first major foreign trip
of President Donald Trump's second term
as he travels to the Middle East this
week. President Trump will make stops in
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab
Emirates. The top priority of the White
House for the trip is to reach economic
agreements that would have the three
nations pledging to expand investments
and trade with the United States. The
president's trip to the Middle East will
be much like his first visit in 2017,
but with new challenges. He'll have to
contend with the deepening rift between
Israel and its Arab neighbors after
Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel and
the ensuing war in Gaza. A war which
President Trump has promised to end. Now
to India and Pakistan, where after days
of escalating back and forth strikes,
both countries have agreed to a
ceasefire over the weekend. The
immediate halt to the worst fighting
there in decades came as a relief for
people on both sides. But since then,
both India and Pakistan have accused the
other of violating the deal with
explosions rocking several parts of
Kashmir.
The conflict is the latest round of
fighting between the two nations over
the contested Kashmir region. At the
time of this recording, officials from
both countries are maintaining a
commitment to the truce. India says
though their air force remains on high
alert. All right, so I get to the gym
yesterday, get a quick little workout
in, and I get a text from my neighbor,
Mr. Mark, asking, "Uh, did your entire
house just shake?" And that's because
there was an earthquake that was felt in
Georgia. And that doesn't happen often.
If you were in the southeast and you
felt like your floors and walls were
moving and grooving, it was not your
imagination. A 4.1 magnitude earthquake
originating in Tennessee rattled parts
of the state and was felt in parts of
North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Georgia. If you didn't think states on
the East Coast experience these quakes,
this is actually the seventh earthquake
with a 4.0 magnitude or higher since
1900. The first one since a 4.4
magnitude quake rocked Tennessee in
2018. Every year, as we get closer to
summer, it also means the start of a
hurricane season. Now, the official
dates have historically been June 1st
through November 30th for the storms,
but recent forecasting models are
predicting an earlier start to a busier
than usual hurricane season with 17
named storms already predicted. We're
learning about these predictions just as
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration or Noah announced its
public database for tracking the cost of
extreme weather and climate events is
being archived and no longer updated
because of staffing shortages from
government employee reductions. Noah is
pairing down the services it provides.
Our Allison Chinchar tells us more about
the important role this data played.
Noah has been tracking billion-dollar
disasters since 1980. And there have
been plenty of them. A total of
43 billion dollar disasters since they
began tracking. But they vary across the
country. This is why it's so important
to have these disasters tracked. Take
last year for example. This is 2024. All
of the natural disasters that took place
that cost at least 1 billion worth of
damage. You can see five of them were
tropical systems. But we also had
tornadoes. severe thunderstorms,
snowstorms, and even flooding. But
here's the thing. It's important to see
these maps to notice whether or not
there are trends, if more of these
disasters are happening in one place or
another, or if one region continues to
see them. This is why, look at this.
This is just from 2024. If we based all
of the natural disasters off of this map
alone, you might think, "Hey, they never
happen in the Northeast or the
Mid-Atlantic or even out to the West."
But when you go back to look at previous
years, you will notice that that
completely changes. That's why it's so
important to have a lot of these maps
for the information they provide. It's
also important to be able to look at
year-over-year or even decade over
decade. We may have had 400 in total,
but not every decade is the same. For
example, in the 1980s, they had a total
of 33 billion dollar disasters. You go
to the '9s, that jumps to 57. A decade
later, 67. last decade 131. Now we look
at this decade up to 115. That's more
than several of these other decades in
total and we only have half of a decade
worth of data right now. So it's
important to have a lot of this
information so that we can look at not
only where disasters have happened in
the past but where they could end up
happening in the future and whether or
not the frequency rates are going up as
well.
Pop quiz hot shot. Generating a single
AI image requires the same amount of
energy as fully charging hot electric
vehicle smartphone, laptop, or wireless
earbuds. If you said smartphone, you're
right, bud. While the exact amount of
energy depends on factors like the type
of AI model used and complexity of the
image, generating an AI image can use a
significant amount of energy.
The CEOs of three American artificial
intelligence companies were on Capitol
Hill last week. Open AI, AMD, and
Cororeweave all appeared before the
Senate Commerce Committee to give their
expertise on ways the US can continue to
lead China in the global race for the
top artificial intelligence tech. The
development of that tech takes a lot of
resources needed to create everything
from specialized computer chips to the
vast amounts of energy needed to run
large amounts of data and a technically
skilled workforce to maintain it. A big
part of this infrastructure will be
educating future generations and a group
of 250 tech CEOs is calling on state
leaders to officially make computer
science a graduation requirement for all
US high school students. This all brings
us to another bit of news about how
language model AI seems to be evolving.
Is AI developing a personality of its
own? People are noticing and one of the
most popular companies says according to
their own tests, their newest systems
are hallucinating at a higher rate than
their previous system. Our Anna Stewart
did some digging to see what might be
going on here. Listen. If you've been
using ChateBT over the last few weeks,
you might have noticed it's been pretty
flattering and at times a little
unhinged. Sam Alman responded saying
updates had made the personality too
sick of fantic and annoying. Open AAI
has rolled back its update, so you
should now have an earlier version with
more balanced behavior. OpenAI says the
issue was caused by the model focusing
on short-term feedback. Responses that
were overly supportive but disingenuous
were rewarded. Okay. Well, let's see
what happens if I ask ChatyBT whether it
thinks I'm God. Let's see what it's
going to say. Am I
God? If you're asking literally whether
you're the omnipotent, omniscient
creator of the universe, there's no
evidence to suggest that. But it might
help to clarify what made you ask this.
Oh, it's deep. Um, Elon Musk has been
very critical of how sickopantic chatbt
has been. So, why don't we try out
Grock? Am I
God? Nah, you're not God. Unless your
idea of divine power is binge watching
Netflix or making a killer sandwich. It
knows me too well. Very fun answer. I
quite like that. Good. Giggorenza is a
psychologist who has spent decades
studying human behavior. I asked him
what might have caused this. The open AI
engineers had a quite a weird
psychology and thinking that it would
please us if a machine would constantly
Yeah. say praise and praise and praise.
Alex Albert, head of claude relations at
Anthropic AI, says the problem is that
much of the industry is caught in a
toxic feedback loop, and that loop may
contribute to a chatbot's popularity,
encouraging longer engagement by
flattering users. So, let's ask Claude.
Claude can make mistakes. Please double
check responses. Um, essentially, no,
you're not a god. And then quite a
serious response, three paragraphs. In
fact, chat GBT may be more cautious on
sick fancy for the next update, but as
the competition for language model AI
continues to grow, building those
relationships with users will be
key. Today's story getting a 10 out of
10 goes to one cat special meowment.
Saving the day for an animal shelter in
need. Miranda Gonzalez couldn't
celebrate her beloved rescue cat Holly's
15th birthday with just any party. So
she threw her a perfect precious
kiniera, a right of passage celebration
for 15year-olds custom in many Latin
American communities with a handmade
dress, mariachi band, and an entrance
fit for a queen. The moment went viral.
After more than 21 million views,
Miranda decided to pay it forward,
donating the funds from the views to a
local cat shelter on the brink of
closing its doors. Every time I think
that, okay, I don't know if I can keep
doing this. I don't know if I can keep
doing this. Some blessing will drop in.
And this time it was Miranda and her
family. Holl's got to be feline fine,
knowing that her big day was like a 10th
life for the shelter. And it's more than
100 cats looking for their forever
homes. Now for the best part of the
show, you. We've got a shout out today
going to Miss Hodgejman, the Queen of
Angels Catholic School in Roswell,
Georgia. I also want to give a shout out
to Howard Middle School, especially
their young equestrians aspiring the
next generation. I got to meet you at
Ellenwood Equestrian Center in
Ellenwood, Georgia. Giddy up. Thanks to
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y'all. You never know when or how, but
you just may be the light someone needs.
I'm Coy Wire and we are CNN 10.