DOE, DENR, big 3 in PH business ink deal to protect Verde Island Passage;
IDF announces reopening of Kerem Shalom crossing for aid into Gaza;
Use of AI tech ramping up in U.S. presidential race
IDF announces reopening of Kerem Shalom crossing for aid into Gaza;
Use of AI tech ramping up in U.S. presidential race
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00:00Nightly greetings one and all. William Theo here homegrown and happy to share
00:04with you all the major events here at home and abroad that have unfolded in
00:09the latest 24-hour news cycle. And we kick off tonight's show with the latest
00:14deal inked by a triumvirate of the country's biggest business moguls and
00:18the DENR to protect a strip of waterway critical to marine biodiversity and
00:23livelihood source to fisher folk in the Dimindroros, Romblon, Batangas and
00:28Marinduque. Three of the biggest names in Philippine business who are jointly
00:33building the largest liquefied natural gas facility in the country in Batangas
00:37province came together yesterday to officially indicate their vow to
00:42preserve the richly biodiverse marine ecosystem of the Verde Island Passage
00:47which covers the provinces of Batangas, Romblon, Marinduque and the two
00:52Mindoro provinces. Under the said deal the DENR, DOE and the Aboitiz Equity
00:58Ventures, Metro Pacific Investment Corporation and San Miguel Corporation
01:03are bound to pour financial and technical resources for five years to
01:07set up a marine science biological research station in collaboration with
01:12the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University and California Academy
01:17of Sciences. The Verde Island Strait covers 1.4 million hectares and is home
01:22to roughly 1,700 fish and 300 coral species that a number of marine experts
01:28have dubbed the center of the marine shore fish biodiversity. In addition, this
01:34perhaps gave the big three no recourse but to ink a deal. The Verde Island
01:39Strait serves as a path on the high seas for international ports and various
01:44oil and gas facilities. An important piece of the Memorandum of Agreement
01:49focuses on ramped up engagement with the fish or foe communities that depend on
01:53the strait for their livelihood and help them sustain even more to improve
01:57profits earned from exploiting the resources from the strait. The deal took
02:02effect yesterday and is good for five years initially with the option to
02:06extend after the deadline. Funding meanwhile will come from the big three
02:10the DENR and the Department of Energy. A key crossing for aid into rubble city
02:17Gaza that shut down over the weekend over rocket attacks by Hamas has
02:22reopened. Military authorities from the Israeli Defense Forces announced several
02:27hours ago the reopening of the Kerim Shalom crossing that serves as a route
02:32for badly needed humanitarian aid into Gaza where hundreds of thousands are
02:37starving and in need of medical aid. This after Israel began its prelude of aerial
02:42bombing of a part of Rafah where a major ground offensive is pending after
02:47Israel's refusal to agree to terms of Hamas's ceasefire proposal. Then again
02:52this surprising move was made after Washington DC paused a delivery of bombs
02:57pending a review of Israel's alleged gross violations of human rights and
03:02reported war crimes. Imagine voter information and digital data combined to
03:08create mass text and email messages on one's mobile or smartphone and then sent
03:14to tens of thousands of independent voters in swing states in a smidgen. Cool
03:19isn't it? Just a sample of how artificial technology will be
03:23instrumental in the election of the 47th president of the United States in
03:28November this year. VOA's Scott Stearns has more. For political campaigns looking
03:35to best target the most voters most economically generative artificial
03:40intelligence is the biggest change in politics. The models are getting better
03:45very rapidly. It feels like every week there's some new model which is
03:50significantly better than the then than a previous model. Those models are
03:54powerful tools for campaigns at the national level and at the local level
03:59says political strategist Betsy Hoover. Think about the campaign that does not
04:03have digital staff at all and therefore really doesn't have a digital content
04:09program like generative AI allows them to have one and a pretty robust one if
04:13they want to or think about a candidate who's running against a well-funded
04:17incumbent. AI has a huge role to play in that campaign. Hoover's firm invests in
04:22developing technology for Democratic Party and left-leaning causes. She says
04:27the key to machine learning in politics is quote doing it the right way. I don't
04:32really know exactly whatever Republican campaign would say their standards are
04:35but I do know that Democrats have a high standard for how we're gonna use this
04:39new technology and so I'm not really worried about following falling behind
04:44if it is not ethical and responsible use of AI. In 2016 the Trump campaign used
04:51unprecedented social media advertising with hyper personalized messages working
04:56with the British data mining firm Cambridge Analytica to directly target
05:01individual voters in swing states. Brad Parseille was that campaigns senior
05:06advisor for data and digital operations his firm campaign nucleus powers the
05:112024 Trump website. Parseille told a conservative Freedom Fest conference
05:16earlier this year that artificial intelligence can analyze voter data to
05:21create mass personalized text and email ads and deploy paid workers to pick up
05:27absentee ballots. In a couple years you're gonna be able have this running for
05:31office on your cell phone an AI driven press release machine write your
05:34campaign emails fundraising tech everything right on your cell phone all
05:38built for you. It's not just the campaigns. Polling by the American Press
05:42Institute and the Associated Press show 42% of American voters worry that news
05:48outlets will use generative artificial intelligence to create stories during
05:53this campaign. Scott Stearns VOA News.
05:58At this point our colleague in PTV's Pine City Studios has the latest
06:03developments in the Cordilleras to share. Eddie?
06:33For informal settler families on a military reservation.
06:37The Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development Cordillera.
06:41Philippine Military Academy.
06:43Local government in Baguio City.
06:46Illegal settlers in the military reservations.
06:51Department of National Defense.
06:53Sublete in Alote.
06:55Demolition in the ISFS.
06:59The original settlers in the military reservations.
07:03The relocation of the military reservation.
07:09Profiling of the housing projects of the government.
07:16The illegal occupants, they need to be demolished.
07:21So the demolition is ongoing.
07:25What we are doing is, maybe LGU can prepare.
07:29There is social preparation for informal settler families.
07:33Maybe they can be accommodated in the 4PH program or socialized housing.
07:40We have a lot of people who can access the health care services here in Fugao.
07:49This is the location of Barua Provincial Hospital in Poblacion North, Iliti, Lagau.
07:56This is the location of the inauguration of Fugao Provincial Hospital.
08:01This is the first provincial hospital since the typhoon Emong in 2009.
08:10It was inaugurated in 2013.
08:12This is the most hazardous area.
08:16This is the level 1 hospital with a capacity of 45 beds.
08:21This is the level 1 hospital with operating room, recovery room, maternity facilities,
08:27isolation facilities, clinical laboratory, imaging facility and pharmacy.
08:33This is the most hazardous area.
08:37This is the level 2 hospital.
08:41We will start the inauguration on October 9.
08:51We will start the inauguration on October 9.
08:59We will start the inauguration on October 9.
09:04We will start the inauguration on October 9.
09:29We will start the inauguration on October 9.
09:34We will start the inauguration on October 9.