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Good morning, I'm Kate Baldwin.

It is Wednesday, April 29th.

Here are the five things you need to know to start your day.

Number one, the king's message.

It was a party fit for a king, which is appropriate since the event was to do exactly that.

That, President Trump hosting a state dinner for King Charles and Queen Camilla.

The dress code was white tie.

The mood, celebratory.

The end result a master class of sorts by the royal in the delicate diplomacy in an uncertain world and in the world of Trump.

As the New York Times headlined it at state dinner.

King Charles charms the court of Trump, especially when it came to his gift for his host.

The king gifted the president a bell from a former British submarine, one that evidently had been called HMS Trump and played a role in the Pacific during World War II.

The king calling it a symbol of military cooperation with perfectly timed British humor.

Tonight, Mr President, I am delighted to present to you as a personal gift the original bell which hung on the conning tower of your valiant namesake may made stand as a testimony to our nation's shared history and shining future.

And should you ever need to get hold of us or just give us a ring Hours before that, the King made an historic address to Congress, leaning heavily on the US and UK's shared history and friendship, but he also delicately pushed back on issues that the nations have sparred over recently, like the importance of NATO.

The king sidestepped any direct talk of the Iran war pretty much all day.

When it was President Trump's turn to speak at the dinner, though he may have put the king in an awkward spot, seeming to reveal something discussed in private.

We have militarily defeated that particular opponent and we're never gonna let that opponent ever.

Charles agrees with me even more than I do.

We're never gonna let that opponent have a nuclear weapon.

Number two, the Comey indictment.

In the strangest case of deja vu, at least today, the former FBI director James Comey has now been indicted a second time.

This time, it's all about seashells.

The picture here in question is now a deleted social media post from Comey from last May.

The seashells arranged on a beach riding out the numbers 86-47.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch calling a threat to kill President Trump the 47th president.

Threatening the life of anybody is dangerous and potentially a crime.

Threatening the life of the President of the United States will never be tolerated by the Department of Justice.

To be clear, this photo was posted and then deleted almost a year ago guys, and only now DOJ is making this move, after the last indictment against Comey fell apart, when a judge ruled the US attorney in charge had been improperly appointed.

That time, it was allegations of lying to Congress.

This time, Many legal minds say the case is even thinner.

It's not yet clear whether Comey will be arrested or turn himself in.

He did post this, though.

I'm still innocent.

I'm still not afraid.

And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.

So let's go.

Number three, the raids.

Federal agents executed 22 search warrants in the Minneapolis area yesterday.

Child daycare centers, adult daycares, other businesses and homes.

This appears to be the start of a new phase in a long running fraud investigation.

Among the places targeted, the previous location, a quality learning center.

That was the Minneapolis daycare targeted by a MAGA-friendly YouTuber who claimed that he himself was investigating fraud among daycares in Minnesota.

At the time, state regulators had checked it out and said it was operating as expected, but the daycare did close in January.

No arrests have been announced yet in this new round of raids, but it all stems from longstanding investigations of some Minnesota businesses, including some run by people of Somali descent, and accusations that they were fraudulently using federal dollars.

The state had its own investigation under Governor Tim Walz, but when Trump took it on as a cause, celeb Walz eventually dropped his reelection bid over pressure surrounding it all.

And here was Walz just last night.

I've said the buck stops with me.

And, as I know, some of you will take that as an open invitation to play politics with every incident of fraud that takes place here in Minnesota.

Even though I have to tell you, statistics show it's happening in red states more than here.

But so be it.

Number four, the Musk testimony.

Elon Musk will be back on the stand today in a 130 billion lawsuit that he brought against someone who's become a rival OpenAI and its current owners, Microsoft.

Musk helped initially fund OpenAI.

He's since had a very public falling out, with the CEO, Sam Altman, now claiming that Altman is betraying the original nonprofit mission of OpenAI when he created a for-profit subsidiary.

But make no mistake, this case is as much about ego as it is about any law.

On the stand, Musk testified that he has extreme concerns over AI warning.

The technology can make everyone prosperous, but quote could also kill us all.

OpenAI argues Musk's lawsuit is less about the well-being of humanity and more about the fact that he now owns a company in competition.

OpenAI's lead attorney putting it this way in court quote, The judge even scolded Musk for calling Sam Altman names on social media during the trial.

Altman is also expected to testify, as well as Microsoft CEO and the mother of four of Elon Musk's children.

More right after this.

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One last thing, a new twist in the bizarre tale of the cocaine hippos out of Colombia.

It involves the son of an Indian billionaire, of course.

If you haven't heard of these creatures in this hilarious tale, or wild tale, they're the descendants of four hippos originally brought to the country by infamous drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

He apparently wanted to build his own zoo in the 80s.

Problem here.

Hippos are definitely not native to Colombia and the very non-native species exploded in population over the years to reach 160.

And they're now threatening other native animal species.

The Colombian government announced plans to kill 80 of them, but now enter the billionaire's son.

Anant Ambani is offering to move the hippos to his own wildlife sanctuary, saying in a social media post this

These 80 hippos did not choose where to be born, nor did they create the circumstances they now face.

That sanctuary's website says that they already have more than 150000 animals of all types in their care and, if the Colombian government approves, they say they'd be happy to follow all necessary regulations to save the hippos.

I feel like this is all going to end quite well, maybe for the hippos, and definitely always for the billionaire.

I'm Kate Baldwin.

Those are the five things you need to know to get your day going.

Now get going.

I'm CNN tech reporter Claire Duffy.

This week on the podcast, Terms of Service.

What do we know about how much AI is contributing to energy consumption, energy demand right now?

And how does that compare with other industries?

The best resource for that is the International Energy Agency, which is sort of the global energy think tank that collects data on all of this.

And what they predict is that about 8 of the additional electricity that we're going to need by 2030 that will be for data centers.

The other 92% is for other things, industry electrification, electric vehicles.

And AI is really only driving part of that increase in demand.

[Daily Briefing: Diplomatic Maneuvers, Legal Controversies, and Global Tech Disputes]-[King Charles' Message, Comey Indicted, Musk Testifies and more ]

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Daily Briefing: A Comprehensive Overview of Current Events

1. Royal Diplomacy in the Trump Era

2. The Second Indictment of James Comey

3. Fraud Investigations and Political Fallout in Minnesota

4. The Ego and Ethics of the Musk vs. OpenAI Lawsuit

5. The Bizarre Saga of Colombia’s "Cocaine Hippos"

6. Insights on AI and Energy Demand

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