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Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, has died at the age of 87.
Turner Enterprises says he died peacefully surrounded by his family.
Turner was a titan of the cable television and media industry and, simply put, without him, this podcast would not exist.
He was ridiculed when he started CNN in 1980.
Some called the snafu plague channel the chicken noodle news.
The first Gulf War, though, changed all that.
Now you may hear the bombs now.
If you're still with us, you're going to hear the bombs now.
They are hitting the center of this city.
CNN was the only network reporting live from Baghdad, and audiences relied on it for updates.
Turner later turned to philanthropy, starting the United Nations Foundation and advocating for land conservation and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
President, Donald Trump remembered Turner on True Social this morning, calling him one of the greats of all time, and said he was always willing to fight for a good cause.
We just posted a special episode with a much deeper look at Turner's life and legacy.
Please go check it out.
It's sitting right below this update in your feed.
Coming up, crews ship chaos after a deadly disease outbreak.
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What do you do with a cruise ship full of people dealing with a rare disease outbreak?
That is the question facing Spanish authorities right now.
The World Health Organization confirmed today that three more people with suspected hantavirus were evacuated off the MV Hondias, but what happens next is unclear.
The Hondias is currently sitting off the west coast of Africa with nearly 150 passengers on board, 17 of them Americans.
The Spanish government says the ship will soon sail for three days to the Canary Islands and dock in Tenerife.
But the leader of the Canary Islands, Fernando Clavijo, is pushing back, saying he wants to talk to Spain's President, Pedro Sanchez.
He's saying they don't know the details of the agreement between the WHO and Spain's government and remain in the dark on the condition of the passengers and the extent of the contagion.
The Spanish government says it's been in constant contact.
Health officials say the risk to the general public is low, but three people have died so far and several others have gotten sick.
Another person who was previously on the ship tested positive for hantavirus and is being treated in Switzerland.
That's the eighth possible case.
And contact tracing is underway, including for 88 people on a flight one of the victims took after she left the ship.
A regional source familiar with the negotiations says the US and Iran are moving closer to agreeing on a short memorandum to end the Iran war.
Now, if it feels like we've been here before, you're right, and Trump administration officials cautioned that talks had previously fallen apart at the last minute.
So what might be different about this document?
CNN International diplomatic editor Nick Robertson is in Islamabad, Pakistan.
My understanding of it is you know it can be as short as perhaps three or four points and that there would be a commitment coming from the Pakistan side to talk about the thornier issues, to talk about the nuclear issue.
But the understanding we have here, at least right now, is that that's not going to get into specificity of detail because that pulls in caveats and lines from both sides.
We know Iran's entrenched position.
We know what President Trump wants to get.
But if you want to get the two sides in a room which, of course, the mediators believe, that's the best way to move forward.
Meanwhile, Iran is moving to assert more control over the Strait of Hormuz.
It set up a bare-bones website for its new Persian Gulf Strait Authority, which would manage vessels coming through the strait and possibly charge tolls.
The US and regional allies have rejected this kind of setup, saying it's illegal under international law.
Anti-Semitic physical assaults reached record highs in the US last year.
That's according to the Anti-Defamation League's annual report, which also documented Jewish fatalities on American soil for the first time since 2019.
Two Israeli embassy staff members were shot and killed in Washington, D.C.
A month later, an 82-year-old woman died after a firebombing attack at a Jewish community event in Colorado.
The report shows anti-Semitic physical assaults rose 4, while attacks involving a deadly weapon went up by 39.
Overall anti-Semitic incidents fell 33 percent from 2024, but remain higher than in years prior to the October 7 2023 Hamas attacks on Israelis.
The ADL is urging Congress to boost security funding for synagogues and schools and pass a bill protecting safe access to houses of worship.
One more break, when we come back, why the US government wants early access to some of the world's most powerful AI models.
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Canva, the thing that makes anything a Google, Microsoft and XAI will let the US government test unreleased AI models before they launch, so officials can access cybersecurity and national security risks.
That's according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
One major player isn't a part of this agreement though, and that's Anthropic.
Remember, the company behind Claude is on the government's blacklist for insisting the Pentagon include certain safety guard rails for the federal use of AI in warfare.
Anthropic, has restricted access to its most powerful AI model and briefed government officials about it.
And interestingly, it's that same model called Mythos that sparked this public-private review process in the first place.
That's all we got for now.
Next update comes your way later this evening.
I'll talk to you later.
I'm CNN tech reporter Claire Duffy.
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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.
