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What's up, sunshine? Welcome to the

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show. I'm Ky Wire. Thank you for joining

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us today. The countdown is on for

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Holiday Break. We're at the penultimate

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day of the week. So, let's get you your

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news while we still have time. The folks

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at one of the United States largest auto

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manufacturers, Ford Motor Company, say

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they are going to slow their role on

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their electric vehicle plants to put

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more focus on their gas and hybrid

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vehicles. Part of their new plan,

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putting production of their flagship EV,

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the F-150 Lightning, on hold

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indefinitely. This stems in part from US

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President Donald Trump's policies which

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are impacting the EV industry. The move

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for Ford means a $19.5 billion hit

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against its fourth quarter earnings.

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Automakers around the world have

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invested big time in EVs, but Ford says

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they've seen a drop in demand. The

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federal tax credit from which EV buyers

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once benefited ended in September. The

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US government also took away some of the

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environmental regulations that went into

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effect during former President Joe

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Biden's term. Did your Spotify wrapped

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feel spot-on this year? You know where

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Spotify tells you which songs are your

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favorites? If so, it's because the

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streaming music service aggregates or

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collects all the songs you played

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throughout the year by using machine

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learning algorithms behind the scenes.

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It's just one example of our digital

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experiences becoming more personalized

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by technology. Our Claire Duffy has

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more. Hey Coy, have you ever found

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yourself wondering how your Spotify

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wrapped seems to just get you so

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perfectly or why Netflix knows how to

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recommend the exact show you wanted to

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watch next? It's all thanks to a

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technology called machine learning. So

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what is that? Machine learning is a

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process where a computer takes a bunch

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of data and uses an algorithm,

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essentially a mathematical equation, to

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find patterns in that data to draw

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conclusions or make recommendations. So,

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think sorting through all of the music

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you listen to this year to determine who

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your favorite artists were. You might

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have heard of machine learning in the

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context of artificial intelligence.

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That's because it also powers many of

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the AI tools we use today. AI chatbots,

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for example, were trained on a bunch of

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human writing and they use their

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knowledge of the patterns in our

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language to respond to our questions.

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Here's Georgia Tech's Brian Mcgherko to

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explain. So like for for using Chai GPT

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or or Llama or something like that. Um

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you know these companies scraped the

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internet grabbed as much text as they

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could from from Reddit conversations and

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forums and blog posts and news articles

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and uh the patterns that they found are

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like what words go with what other words

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and so when you give it words it goes

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hey what's the most likely word that

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would goes that would go next? Now,

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online platforms don't just use

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information about us to serve us

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recommendations. They also look at what

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content people like us are consuming

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using a type of machine learning called

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collaborative filtering.

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>> Spotify is really really good at

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collecting data and describing data. So

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one of the things that they use uh and

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and has been used in in lots of uh uh

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like websites and apps that you use is

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this approach called collaborative

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filtering.

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>> So uh Spotify when you say hey give me

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some music that uh that I think I'll

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like you hit the the DJ button or

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something and uh what it's doing is it's

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going okay let me look at this guy. What

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does he listen to lately? Okay what are

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people that are like him? Okay, what do

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they listen to? Let's give them some of

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that. And so collaborative filtering is

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underneath all of these sort of like,

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you know, magic suggestions that happen

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with Spotify, you know, wrapped or or

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the autogenerated playlists. It can

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recognize like, hey, you know, there are

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not that many goth circus uh ragtime uh

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uh people out there, but you're one of

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them. you know, it can help you sort of

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identify if you're on this island of of

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music appreciation uh that you can brag

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to your friends about.

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>> So, what to make of all of this? It's

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important to understand that apps and

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online platforms are taking in data you

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share with them, whether by listening to

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certain songs or liking certain photos,

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and they're learning from it. That can

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be used for fun applications like giving

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you your Spotify wrapped. Spotify says,

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"My listening age is 73, by the way,

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thanks to my love of classic rock." But

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machine learning can also be used to do

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things like target you with ads for

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things a company thinks you're more

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likely to buy. And I don't know about

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you, but this time of year, that is the

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last thing I need. Still, the more we

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know about how tech platforms collect

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and use our data, the better we can

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choose how to consciously engage with

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them. Koi

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>> pop quiz hot shot. Volkswagen's iconic

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van was originally called the microbus,

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the type 2, the wonder wagon, or the

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mystery machine.

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If you said type two, you are too good.

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The type 2, later renamed the

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transporter, started production in 1950.

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It soon became a cultural symbol of

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freedom, road trips, and the 1960s

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counterculture. Type 1 was the one and

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only VW Beetle. Now to a viral moment

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that became a symbol of hope. This

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vintage Volkswagen bus was spared from

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the LA fires even as the rest of the

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neighborhood was decimated last January.

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The bus has since undergone a full

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remodel and is getting some newfound

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love and national attention. Our Nick

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Watt has more. So many people saw hope

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in this picture. The little blue

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miracle, a 1977 VW micro bus among the

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grays and blacks of destruction and

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despair. This went through the fire. You

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see the burnt headlight

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>> out front was on the case. This was back

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in January. Found the bus. And

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>> so we wanted to know who owned it to to

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get the story here. And we found them.

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>> Wow. It is magic.

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>> Current owner Megan Weiner, Malibu

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Surfer.

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>> I'm speechless to see all the houses

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burnt. And I can't believe that Hazul,

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the bus, that's what we named it,

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survived. Like it's I'm just in shock

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>> now. More shock. Good shock. The magic

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bus has had a makeover. now reunited

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>> with her owner.

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>> She's beautiful.

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>> How did this happen? Well, Volkswagen

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folks also saw that viral pic of the

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little singed survivor and they asked if

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they could help. Picked us all up

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and got to work. We found the car with a

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busted rear windows. We had ashes

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inside. We had ambers inside and nothing

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combusted. And we drained 11 gallons of

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fuel of the car. Why didn't it burn? I

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don't know. They worked on a zool for

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2,000 hours to bring a bus back to life.

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Every part was restored. That

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eye-catching blue paint had to be custom

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mixed. But what about the palisades?

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Then now. Nearly 7,000 structures

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destroyed. So far, only one home has

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been completely rebuilt. A certificate

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of occupancy was issued just last week.

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Azul is now back. charm intact and even

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better than before. Can we hope for the

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same for the Palisades?

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>> It's beginning to look a lot like

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Christmas at the London Zoo, where some

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serious monkey business is underway.

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Check out the zoo's saki monkeys going

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bananas over their very own stockings.

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They were hung with care, courtesy of

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the zookeepers, providing the petite

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primates with a holiday feast. Guess

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they made the nice list. Meanwhile, the

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zoo's gorilla troop went ape over their

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Christmas swag. Burlab sacks filled with

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their favorite festive snacks. The

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critically endangered great apes are

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part of the more than 8,000 amazing

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animals that call the zoo home. Many are

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threatened or even extinct in the wild

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and part of the zoo's ongoing

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conservation programs. Here's wishing

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all creatures great and small and

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absolutely wonderful holiday.

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Today's story getting a 10 out of 10.

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The power of music, especially during

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the holidays.

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>> What song would you like us to sing for

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you?

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>> Jingle bell rock, please.

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>> Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell

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rock.

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>> This is Dial the Carol, an annual

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tradition at the University of Illinois

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that goes back 65 years.

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>> Started by a front desk person who just

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really wanted to spread Christmas joy.

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And so we've just kept the tradition

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going since then.

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>> Nice way to spread some joy during some

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stressful times.

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>> Any holiday song, any time of the day,

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these student volunteers are eager and

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ready to sing.

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>> We believe in like the power of music

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and especially in giving back to our

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communities through music.

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>> Jingle bell.

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>> All right, almost time to bring it home.

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Two shoutouts for you this Thursday. The

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first one goes to Mr. Kirk doll at Cani

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High School in Cani, Oregon. Your

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students want you to know how much they

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appreciate your encouragement. Rise up.

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And this shout out goes to Miss Stokes

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at Allegro Charter School of Music in

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North Charleston, South Carolina. They

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sent us this book of Renaissance poems

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and magnificico. You nailed it. It's of

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historic places and people and times and

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uh where are the beautiful artists?

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There they are. Look at them smiling

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back right at us. You all are more

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powerful than you know. I can't wait to

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read some of that. Have an awesome day.

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Go make it an awesome day and make

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someone smile. I'm Ky Wire and we are

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CNN 10.