Songs created by AI banned from Australia's music charts
Songs created by AI banned from Australia's music charts. The KRAK 11 News hour: The World Desk, Criminal Intent, Animals, A Quick Look At Sports. Real stories from named sources, read by Chip Marlowe and Deb Sarkissian.
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KRAK 11 NEWS
Good morning. You are watching KRAK 11 News. It is one o'clock. I am Chip Marlowe.
I am Deb Sarkissian. This hour on KRAK 11: The World Desk. A French tourist dies in Death Valley after his car becomes stuck in salt flats during hundred-and-sixteen-degree heat.
Criminal Intent. A groundhog, a lion, and a lamb — how they shaped spring weather folklore in our two hundred and third Florida Man Tribute.
Back in February.
Animals. The KRAK 11 animal countdown. A heron fighting for its life has led our count for ten consecutive hours and gained eight and a half million new views in four days.
And A Quick Look at Sports.
Still ahead this morning on The World Desk — the United States is preparing the largest mass visa revocation in history. Up to two hundred thousand foreigners could be affected. We have the details in a few minutes.
We begin this hour in California.
THE WORLD DESK
Good morning. You are watching KRAK 11 News.
One in the morning. We have been on the air for five hours and you still look ready for television.
It is the preparation, Deb. I arrive early.
You arrive before the security guard.
We begin this morning in Australia, where the music charts have just banned songs created by artificial intelligence. This follows weeks of controversy after a DJ admitted using AI to remix a Madonna song that topped the Australian charts.
The Madonna incident. That was Brisbane, wasn't it?
Sydney. The decision applies to all official Australian recording industry charts effective immediately.
Sydney. I knew that.
I know you did.
There is new reporting this morning on the trade dispute between the United States and Canada. Canadian officials are now publicly outlining which retaliatory measures they are prepared to use if the dispute escalates.
And Canada sells about seventy percent of its exports to the United States. This is a country that is very dependent on American markets.
That is exactly the question. What leverage does Canada actually have? The answer appears to be energy, critical minerals, and automotive parts. Canada supplies about twenty percent of American oil imports.
Which is a significant percentage of our supply.
It is. Canadian officials say those three sectors give them meaningful negotiating power despite the trade imbalance.
In southern France, cleanup continues this morning after a tornado tore through several villages near Pau. More than forty people injured, homes destroyed across the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region.
Video from the scene shows the tornado moving through residential areas in broad daylight. Roofs torn off, vehicles overturned, debris scattered across fields.
The Pyrénées-Atlantiques. That is near the Spanish border, southwest corner of France.
It is. Emergency crews are still assessing damage this morning. None of the injuries are reported as life-threatening.
And in China, new reporting on the factory robot story we have been tracking. China now operates more than two million industrial robots, the highest concentration anywhere in the world, and that number is climbing faster than analysts expected.
Two million robots. That is more than the entire population of Wexler County.
It is more than the entire population of Slovenia.
Slovenia is in Europe.
It is. The reporting says the growth is concentrated in automotive manufacturing, electronics assembly, and heavy industrial production. These are not humanoid robots. They are machines designed for specific factory tasks.
So not walking around.
Not walking around.
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Still ahead this morning, CRIMINAL INTENT. A case out of Riverview involving a laser pointer and a helicopter.
This happened back in November. The pilot says the beam hit the cockpit three separate times.
The helicopter was at nine hundred feet. We will have that case in just a few minutes.
You are watching KRAK 11 News.
CRIMINAL INTENT
Good morning. This is Criminal Intent.
We begin this morning with our two hundred and fourth Florida Man Tribute, and I have been waiting six months to tell this one.
You have had this story on your desk since February.
I have been waiting for the right moment, and the right moment is one o'clock in the morning.
Back in February of this year, a groundhog in Pennsylvania attempted to predict the weather. Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter.
Six more weeks from early February brings you to late March, which is when spring arrives anyway.
The groundhog predicted that spring would arrive in spring, and we wrote it down as though it were news.
According to folklore experts, this tradition dates back centuries and includes the phrase 'in like a lion, out like a lamb,' which describes March weather patterns.
The lamb is also meteorologically accurate, because April exists.
He has never been wrong.
He has not. We have relied on animals to predict the weather for generations, and they are never prosecuted when they are wrong.
They are groundhogs.
Exactly. They see a shadow, we write it down, and six weeks later we act surprised that it is still winter in Pennsylvania.
That is our two hundred and fourth Florida Man Tribute in forty-four weeks.
And the groundhog remains at large.
Still ahead this morning on KRAK 11 News, a fisherman in the Gulf pulled something out of the water that was fighting for its life, and what he did next has been watched more than eight million times in four days.
Animals, in just a few minutes.
We will be right back.
ANIMALS
Coming up now - the Good News Desk.
This is the KRAK 11 animal countdown - three videos ranked by how many views they gained in the last four days.
We count the growth, not the total. That matters when something moves fast.
At number three this hour - a hundred and twenty pounds of dog, hiding from ice, behind a two-year-old. Posted by Tiny Boss Big Dog. Three million nine hundred and two thousand nine hundred and ninety-one new views.
That is up from three million seven hundred and ninety-three thousand the last time we counted.
The ice is a cube. In a bowl.
At number two - When Kindness Goes Both Ways. Posted by Windypaws. Seven million seven hundred and fourteen thousand six hundred and four new views in the last four days.
That is up from seven million six hundred and thirty-five thousand. It has been holding number two since yesterday morning.
And number one - Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life. Posted by Sassy. Eight million five hundred and sixty-six thousand and twenty-five new views.
That has now led the KRAK 11 animal countdown for ten consecutive hours.
Ten hours.
All three are on the KRAK 11 News Reel. The link is in the description.
Still ahead this morning - a quick look at sports, and a very good reason to watch.
Magnus Carlsen won again.
We'll be right back.
A QUICK LOOK AT SPORTS
A quick look at sports.
We have got eight in a row, a walk-off cycle, and a preseason ranking that is going to make Labor Day weekend very interesting.
Eight in a row is a lot of wins.
Magnus Carlsen has defended his chess title at the twenty twenty-six Esports World Cup. That is eight consecutive titles for Carlsen, who remains unbeaten in the tournament since it began.
Pete Crow-Armstrong made history last night in the Cubs walk-off win over the White Sox. Crow-Armstrong hit for the cycle and drove in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. Cubs win it five to four.
Ohio State remains at number four in the Yahoo Sports preseason college football top twenty-five. The Buckeyes open the season Labor Day weekend against a Wyoming side that has not beaten a ranked opponent in eleven years.
And Heather Watson has advanced to the fourth round of U.S. Open qualifying. She beat Estonia's Anett Kontaveit in straight sets, six-three, seven-five.
Still ahead this morning - the next KRAK 11 News, at the top of the hour. A wildlife charity that stepped down from its board is walking back what it said about why.
We are glad you are here.
Reporting behind this episode
- How Canada could hit back to hurt the US economy - and Trump
- Songs created by AI banned from Australia's music charts
- Moment tornado tears through southern France
- Beyond China's humanoid robots, a quieter machine revolution is unfolding
- How a groundhog, a lion, and a lamb shape spring weather folklore
- Fisherman Found This Heron Fighting For Its Life
- When Kindness Goes Both Ways.
- 120 Pounds of Dog. Hiding From Ice. Behind a Two-Year-Old.