Apple Unveils Iphone 15 ; Google VS. U.S in Antitrust Trial | California Today – Sept. 12

Good evening. Welcome to California today. I'm David Zhang. Here is a preview of some of today's top stories Apple unveils the new iPhone 15 the latest the model features improved the camera zoom and makes the switch to a USB C charging port Google is going to court US federal regulators are sued the company to determine if it's a search engine has an illegal monopoly More crimes strikes Southern California in broad daylight. We'll take a look at some of the cases that have circulated on social media Apple was the talk of the town today The tech giant held its annual product event to kick off the sprint to the holiday season and the iPhone 15 was a front and center Apple's new iPhone 15 unveiled Tuesday comes with new features a new look and Updates to the display the camera and more the new phone ditches the lightning connection in favor of a charging cable That's compatible with non Apple products in accordance with a European law in Europe They forced the standard of USB C. So Apple was going to have to do that for at least the European But the decision of course was well If you're going to do it for Europe you do it for the rest of the world In which most of the world has already shifted over to USB C. So this was just a natural progression the 6.1 inch iPhone 15 starts at $7.99 the 6.7 inch iPhone 15 plus starts at $8.99 The new phone comes in pink yellow green blue and black But Apple added enough new bells and whistles to the top of the line model the iPhone 15 Pro Max To boost its price from last year's version to a thousand two hundred The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max will be equipped with what Apple claims to be the equivalent of seven camera lenses They will include a periscope style telephoto lens that will improve the quality of photos taken from far distances Apple also showed off a new series 9 watch with a feature called Double tap where users tap their thumb and finger together twice without touching the watch in order to perform tasks Like answering a phone call the Apple watch ultra 2 has new features for cycling and diving the series 9 will start at $3.99 and the ultra 2 watch will start at $7.99 all the new models will be available in stores September 22nd with pre-orders beginning this Friday Silicon Valley, California is the global hub for generative artificial intelligence or gen AI for short But what does gen AI mean and why did governor Newsom issue an executive order to direct resources to study the use risks of gen AI I Spoke with award-winning author and San Jose State University professor are met benefa to hear more Good to have you on the show professor benefa. So people are already familiar with artificial intelligence or AI But what is generative AI and what is it capable of? That's a very good question AI in general artificial intelligence is actually three stages The first one which is the narrow AI really passed that stage, which is the Siri you know Alexa where the human is smarter than the machine the General AI where the human and the machine they have a similar level of intelligence Which is what we are in today and that is where the generative AI comes into play The the term generative AI is taking data taking information Processing information and then creating something completely new not just summarizing or or you know Just copying what in the data now that for the general AI, which is the second stage the third stage Which is the super AI which is still in the future. This is when the machine will be smarter than the human That's where the danger is when they start making their own decisions and they sometimes they look at the human as an obstacle Now when it comes to AI people are either frozen by fear or hypnotized by the upside should people be fearful about AI I understand the fears because The reason for this what it could take jobs and a lot of jobs gonna be lost because of that But at the same time it's gonna open the door for new jobs And this is the story of any technology when the internet came to the picture a lot of people lost their job But the internet opened a new opportunities for people The the fear is when we rely too much on the AI to make decisions that has to impact our life Do you think the government should step in to regulate this whole AI industry? If so is right now a good time before things get out of control We need to regulate the AI we need to make sure that there is a responsibility from different Perspective for example, the content itself is there isn't a copyright for people to take in that content? Who's responsible for sharing bad information if somebody if you ask the chat GBT about giving you, you know some kind of information that it is illegal all of these kind of things that you need some regulation and I did write a Letter to the White House and I got a reply from the president about that letter Specifically about this point telling, you know, you know the White House we need to have a regulation We need to do it in congestion with the with the with the companies at the same time Don't leave it for the private sector to regulate themselves because they don't have good track, you know and doing that We've seen it with the social media. So yes, we need regulation, but we have to work in partnership with the private sector There seems to be a tacit race on AI technology among the US China and other countries How's the US doing right now? So far so good for us because it started here and we are really You know, you know Expanding, you know, I see this one in my in my school It's at San Jose State where the interest on on AI is really high California has you know, 35 companies with the top 50 AI companies in the world California has about 25% of the AI Patents in the world and the conference and the papers and research is here in, California The companies like Netflix they are offering jobs that will with a salary of nine hundred thousand dollars for an AI You know, you know expert so the as we speak This wave of AI is different from other ways before because AI if you never if anybody studied the history They would know that I want something called winter AI which is goes up and down What we are seeing here is a little bit different because it's not just a standalone technology It's actually attaching itself to everything we're doing. All right, Professor Bonafide of San Jose State University. Thank you so much Thank you US federal regulators going after Google to decide whether its search engine has an illegal monopoly The company holds a 90% share in the search engine market Entities Eileen Ng has the details Google is going to court US federal regulators are set to launch an attempt to dismantle its internet empire in the biggest US antitrust trial in a quarter-century over the next 10 weeks federal lawyers and state attorneys general will try to prove Google rig the market in its favor by locking its search engine in as the default choice in a plethora of places and devices The Justice Department filed its antitrust lawsuit against Google nearly three years ago Claiming the company has used its internet search dominance to gain an unfair advantage against competitors government lawyers allege that Google protects its franchise by shelling out billions of dollars annually to be the default search engine on the iPhone and on web browsers such as Apple Safari and Mozilla's Firefox Google counters that it faces a wide range of competition despite commanding about 90% of the internet search market Top executives at Google in its parent alphabet as well as those from other powerful technology companies are expected to testify regulators also charged that Google has illegally rigged the market in its favor by Requiring its search engine to be bundled with this Android software for smartphones if the device Manufacturers want full access to the Android App Store. The judge won't issue a ruling until early next year Southern California is experiencing a troubling trend of brazen retail thefts Many of which are boldly taking place during the daytime Entities Christina Corona has more on the crimes surveillance footage shows thieves breaking into the back door of Irwindale Cycles a family-owned bicycle shop in Irwindale the incident unfolded in the early hours on August 28th The masked suspects are seen taking bicycles off of the rack and rolling them through the back door Norma Killeen dress the owner of the shop tells us the thieves got away with $40,000 worth of bikes and inventory taking the most expensive bikes in the store She tells us she may now have to close her business due to the loss The Irwindale Police Department released a photo of two suspects on the Gold Line Metro rail with four bikes just hours After the incident in Northridge footage posted on the citizens app shows a group of thieves and hooded sweatshirts Grabbing boxes of cologne and perfume and throwing them into large trash bags at a Macy's at Northridge Fashion Center Sunday the LAPD Estimates $20,000 worth of fragrances was stolen and at least 10 suspects were involved in the robbery in Orange County recently released footage shows a couple grabbing baby formula from the shelves at a Target store in Costa Mesa on March 3rd a Child is seen in the cart while they are shoving the food into a large tote bag They are seen being stopped by an employee But continue exiting the store on April 2nd The couple can again be seen stealing baby formula at a Target store in Irvine shoving the canned food into bags a Nalu Gonzalez 25 and Alexis de Jesus Garcia 22 were arrested on Thursday for grand theft and organized retail theft stealing a total of $17,000 worth of goods a video posted by Tonsu Jagen shows a woman putting items into her bag at a drugstore smiling at the camera knowing in California $950 is legally permitted to steal without a chase Christina Corona NTD News, California We'll take a short break now, but here's a look at what we have for you when we come right back a Bay Area County has a 48 million dollars in fund to help fight fentanyl one county leader pushing for more Narcan and a mobile response unit a Former Hollywood singer sounds the alarm on child exploitation She says her time in Los Angeles opened her eyes to the child trafficking and abuse taking place in the music industry Fast food workers are getting a minimum wage increase This new agreement ends a nearly year-long dispute between labor unions and the industry Those stories and more coming up on California Today Welcome back to California Today. I'm your host David Zhang Fire crews are battling a massive structure fire in downtown Los Angeles the fire already caused the part of the building's roof to collapse The blaze broke out just after 1 p.m. At a building on the 300 block of the East 4th Street Footage from the citizen app shows smoke billowing out of the windows while crews fought the fire from outside and above According to the LA Fire Department. The building is approximately three stories with the basement Portions of the roof near the back of the building had apparently collapsed According to reports the fire apparently began in the basement of the building and there were no people in the building No injuries have been reported No other information was immediately available Santa Clara County is expecting funds of 48 million from a nationwide opioid settlement Supervisor Cindy Chavez pushes for initiatives such as Narcan supply and a mobile unit entities David Lam reports County supervisors in Silicon Valley will decide on how to spend a portion of 48 million dollars that came from a settlement regarding fentanyl Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez wants to focus on Narcan distribution and informational campaigning to spread awareness We're gonna spend over the next year close to three million dollars Just getting us moving into these into a series of investments according to Chavez's office Fentanyl related deaths of youths and young adults in 2023 is expected to pass 2022s number and with San Jose categorized by law enforcement as a fentanyl hub the ability to have a mobile unit that will be able to go out into the community and make a Naloxone and test strips and an education available to the community in 2022 alone there were 161 fentanyl deaths in the county 15 times more than 2018 according to the county Chavez established the county's fentanyl working group with the district attorney two years ago after a twelve-year-old died of fentanyl poisoning So one action that we took on Thursday was we asked VTA to take a look at making Narcan available on buses light rail and in transit centers in 2021 nearly 70% of drug overdoses in the United States were from fentanyl The addictive opioid can be used by drug dealers mixed in with other drugs making it look real But actually fake so far this year there have been 98 fentanyl deaths in the county in San Jose, California David Lam entity news a Puppy receives a dose of Narcan in Southern, California Police responded to the puppy in distress after they found it likely overdosed from fentanyl Irvine police gave a pitbull puppy Narcan after it showed signs. It was overdosed with fentanyl Officials believed it got into its owners fentanyl stash in the car an officer quickly transported the dog to an emergency Veterinarian for treatment the dog's owners a man and a woman were arrested outside a Walmart and could face charges Including drug possession and animal cruelty. The dog is recovering and the animal services unit will take possession of it The ex-hollywood singer put a morals over fame She said she saw child grooming in the music industry She now runs a nonprofit exposing child trafficking and abuse and to these David Lam speaks with Landon Starbuck Landon Starbuck lives in Tennessee currently running freedom forever a nonprofit exposing the world of child exploitation and saving children Rescuing children alone doesn't solve the problem of child exploitation child sexual abuse So I wanted to get to the root of that which is education and prevention based activism and that is the mission of freedom forever Starbuck also creates music such as her single hope to shed light on child trafficking But before that she pursued a music career in Hollywood at age 18 I was also a singer singer songwriter who charted on billboard and that experience Made me realize there was a very deep problem that was not being talked about She shared that her time in the music industry opened her eyes to the sexual quid pro quo Culture that is Hollywood of what was expected the favors the denigration needed to become a star The singer recalls one experience When I arrived at this video shoot, there was a clothing rack, but there was lingerie underwear hanging and I said, I'm not I'm sorry. I'm not comfortable. I didn't I didn't know that was what the deal was I I'm not wearing that and they said well, that's alright. We'll find somebody who will she said the next day she was dropped So wait a minute. It's not that I'm not good enough. It's you know that I'm not willing to take off my clothes It's not it's I'm not willing to sexualize myself I'm not willing to hop on a private plane to Vegas over the weekend to party with label execs You know and I would have some of these females who are big stars today Tell me Landon, you don't have to sleep with them. Just just come and party come and hang It's just part of our job. This is what we have to do Starbucks said she didn't understand and in some cases underage girls would be hanging out with adults. I Realized that you know all of these areas. I was just not going to be able to compromise My values to To make it that's really what it came down to so you left this industry because you saw things that were against your morals Is it is it worth it now today? I'm so grateful for the experiences. I've had as bad as they were and even the depression that I went through Reconciling the fact that I wasn't going to make it on those terms But I was going to make it on God's terms and so now I'm using my voice in a much more powerful way in a much more meaningful way Child grooming and trafficking is not just a concern of the entertainment industry on the state level Senate bill 14 passed the Assembly 79 to 0 on Monday and is one step closer to the governor's desk It would make child sex trafficking in California a serious felony and increased penalties in Santa Clara, California David Lam entity news California's fast-food workers will get a $20 minimum wage next year This new agreement ends are nearly year-long standoff between labor unions and the fast-food industry Starting April 1st next year. Most fast-food workers in California would get a $20 minimum wage This is a nearly $5 raise per hour The current minimum wage for all industries in California is fifteen dollars fifty cents per hour and the newly established fast-food council under assembly bill 257 signed last year would have the power to raise the minimum wage each year through 2029 the deal between labor unions and the industry was announced on Monday The mandatory raise would apply to all fast-food restaurants in California that are part of a chain with at least 60 locations nationwide lawmakers have also restored funding for the Industrial Welfare Commission a state agency that has the power to set wages and workplace standards in Exchange for the $20 minimum wage labor unions have withdrawn their Sponsorship of a bill to make fast-food companies liable for their franchise operators labor violations Now, let's check in with NTD's Tyler Castile for our sports roundup Thanks David, I'm Tom still taking you through California today's sports roundup The San Francisco 49ers played their first regular season game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Before the matchup the 49ers were focused on negotiating a new contract for Nick Bosa the league sack leader last season Now Bosa did get signed. He got signed to a five-year 170 million dollar contract where each year he gets around 34 million annually Nick Bosa is now the highest paid defensive player in the league now during the actual 49ers vs. Steelers game Brandon I you scored not one But two touchdowns in the first half with Christian McCaffrey scoring one in the second half 49ers 30 Steelers 7 Now to a SoCal team that LA Rams played against the Seattle Seahawks for the first win of the new season Every touchdown that was scored for the Rams was scored by a running back with two of those Touchdowns being scored by Kareem Williams and one of those scored by cam Akers Brett Mayer scored 12 points from 3 out of 5 kicks Rams 30 Seahawks 13 I'm talking to you. And that was today's sports roundup back to you David Thanks Tyler. That's all we've got for you tonight We would like you to join us again on California today every weekday at 8 p.m Make sure to check out our broadcasts at ntd.com California dash today You will also find all of our top latest the clips there ready to share with the friends and family Send us a message on Facebook Twitter Instagram Gungeon world or through our email California dot today at ntd.com. I'm David Zhang. Have a wonderful evening