Faster Computing, Better AI? | March 20,2025

[Music] hello sunshine it's Thursday March 20th happy Friday Eve I'm KY wire welcome to cnn10 and speaking of sunshine today is the March Equinox also known as the vernal equinox in the northern hemisphere the sun crosses the celestial equator marking the start of spring and roughly equal amounts of daytime and nighttime hours worldwide so spring has sprung and now it's time for your news in the Middle East the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has effectively come to an end this week Israel launched a series of attacks in Gaza carrying out what it says were

extensive strikes on Hamas targets gaza's Health Ministry says the attacks killed hundreds of people and wounded hundreds more making Tuesday the deadliest day in Gaza in more than 15 months the fragile ceasefire deal which paused fighting in Gaza lasted nearly 2 months International mediators like the US katar and Egypt spent months brokering the ceasefire which was announced on January 15th and came into effect four days later the agreement was structured in phases that paused fighting to allow the release of hostages in Gaza and Palestinian prisoners in Israel both Israelis and Palestinians celebrated the Bittersweet truce

after more than a year of War since the October 7th Hamas attacks on Israel the ceasefire deal was already on Shaky Ground the first phase of the deal ended more than two weeks ago talks to reach a path forward to release remaining Israeli hostages and reach a permanent peace deal had stalled a spokesperson for Hamas says the militant group wanted to see the continuation of the ceasefire agreement with Israel and is still in touch with mediators in the wake of renewed fighting but Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of refusing to release hostages

or accept a US proposal to extend the Gaza ceasefire Israeli officials said the attacks would continue as long as necessary to complete War objectives like releasing hostages and removing future threats by Hamas from Gaza Pop Quiz Hot Shot the first ever computer bug was not software related so what kind of insect was it ant roach moth or fly answer is Moth the term computer bug came about when computer scientist Grace Hopper found an actual moth stuck in the mark 2 computer in 1947 thus the term for fixing computer glitches or debugging was born in the

tech World artificial intelligence computer chipmaker Nvidia revealed new details about its next AI chip platform the company says the technology levels up AI Computing compatibility Beyond chatbot interactions helping apps to reason and act on a user's behalf our Anna Stewart shows us why the announcement at the annual conference for the company comes at a very important time earlier this year Nvidia was the most valuable company in the world amidst an AI boom its chips have been pivotal to Data Centers fueling the likes of Microsoft Amazon and Google Nvidia share price though lost steam in recent

weeks sparked in part by the release of deep seeks latest reasoning model R1 created in China at a fraction of the cost of comparable models and really it raised questions as to whether expensive Hardware like nvidia's is really necessary well in nvidia's annual conference the CEO was Keen to emphasize that the next waves of AI like agentic or reasoning Ai and the AI to power robots will open New Market opportunities for the company the computation requirement the scaling law of AI is more resilient and in fact hyper accelerated the amount of computation we need at

this point as a result of agentic AI as a result of reasoning is easily a hundred times more than we thought we needed this time last year Jensen Wong also announced the Blackwell Ultra for the second half of this year it's an upgraded version of nvidia's existing AI chip which has been in really high demand and plenty more to come he teased ahead to even more advanced chips in the pipeline next year a chip called Vera Ruben named after the astronomer followed by the ultra Ruben for 2027 plenty for investors to mull over a conservation

comeback worth commemorating we are seeing a rebound in humpback whale populations and it is an international ban on Commercial whaling that's being credited for it humpback whales were nearly hunted to Extinction during the 19th and 20th centuries but today the whales can be seen Gathering off the coast of South Africa in super groups of hundreds of whales watch as one photographer takes us out to sea for a firsthand look a light fog hangs over South African has seen at Cape Peninsula on an early morning in December for renowned photographer Chris Fallows and his wife and

co- Captain Monique it's a picture perfect start to the day so we trying to create exceptional images and this morning we're very lucky we've got a beautiful scene developing with tablecloth rolling over Table Mountain first rays of light are just starting to kiss that iconic landmark and um it's looking pretty good just need to find the whales now they're searching specifically for the playful and acrobatic humpback that's a young humpback well that's the species we're looking for but it's more than one or two they're hoping to find so early in the morning we usually find

ones and twos that then lead us to either a feeding area or are part of a structure that actually comes together and forms a super group a so-called superg group is when at least 20 individuals of the many more are feeding close to each other so these super groups of Wales have really only been around for probably the last 10 years or so before that they were extremely difficult to find and in recent times as their population has started to recover so we've ever increasingly started seeing big big groups of these whales which has been

truly incredible it's one of the great positive news stories on the ocean slowly on the star next slow down a whisker go neutral I would say maybe 70% of my attention is making sure that I'm not going to impact an an one anyway in terms of where the boat is so I'm extremely aware that is the number one focus when we are out there oh magic man oh what a Magic one obviously one of my key objectives is to create works of art that are amongst the best in the world but equally I think my

primary objective is to inspire people and I think that is a way to connect people with the ocean and hopefully create more ambassadors to make sure that they like me love these animals and realize the importance of conserving them oh there that's a wa that was a good one that was a really good one their days on the water are also dedicated to collecting data to share with environmental authorities like the department of forest fish in the environment zo South 33° and capturing photo IDs of individual whales for a conservation project called happy whale that

helps track their movements non-invasively I'll go on the left side you go on the right side okay Chris has spent the better part of three decades photographing some of the planet's most legendary and imperal Wildlife but the comeback of the humpbacks paints a different picture they incredibly important animals and for me the humpback is really the Phoenix that gives all species that have turned to ashes hope that they too could Rise [Applause] Again today's story getting a 10 out of 10 people have totally redeemed themselves after giving a poor little fish a glow up turns

out when the gelatinous blob fish was declared the world's ugliest animal back in 20133 ouch it wasn't given a fair shake the deep sea creature you see lives thousands of feet underwater and it looks a lot less globular down there where water pressure is more than 100 times stronger than the air pressure we experience on land now the Blobfish has a new title fish of the year after voters in New Zealand weighed in as part of a competition bringing awareness to the country's marine life so next time you're feeling like people are hating on you

hang in there any is possible fantastic congrats blob all right it is shout out time now we're sending some love to McNeil Middle School in witch Falls Texas and all our Mustangs giddy up and mount Pisa and all the Patriots in John's Creek Georgia rise up we see you miss jardina go on out make it a great day I'll be right back here to finish this week strong with you on Friday I'm Coy wire and we are CNN 10 [Music]