US Fighter Jet Shot Down, Strong Jobs Report, AI Security Fears and more

Hey there, from CNN, I'm David Rind with the five things you need to know for Friday,

April 3.

Let's start with a major update in the war with Iran.

Three U.S. sources say a U.S. fighter jet has been shot down over Iran, and that search

and rescue efforts are underway.

It's not exactly clear where this plane went down, but that video verified by CNN shows

an apparent U.S. military refuel operation over central Iran, possibly as part of a search

mission.

Your photos had been circulating online of wreckage that one expert told CNN, appeared

to show remnants of an F-15 fighter jet that had partial logo for U.S. air forces in

Europe, which appear on such jets.

CNN's Jim Shudo is in Tel Aviv.

Those pilots, they are trained to do a number of things in the event that they go down.

The first is to evade, and if they're captured to escape, but also they have means of signaling

U.S. forces so that they could zero in on their location and take them to safety.

We know that Iranian authorities appear to be looking for the pilots as well, because

on Iranian state TV, we heard the state TV anchor exhorting residents in the area to

if they find pilots to turn them in.

Meanwhile, as part of its 2027 budget request, a largely symbolic wish list out just this

morning, the White House is seeking roughly $1.5 trillion in defense spending.

That would boost military spending to its highest point since World War II.

Alright, we have a lot more coming up, including some good-looking jobs numbers.

Stick around.

More jobs were added to the U.S. economy in March the next person predicted.

That's the headline from the latest report out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

These are the strongest job growth numbers we've seen since December 2024, and it's

a big shift from February when hiring slowed and job losses ticked up.

CNN's Alicia Wallace from our business team is here, Alicia, what's behind the bounce

back?

Where's this growth happening?

Thanks, David.

So the latest jobs report showed that the economy likely added 178,000 jobs last month.

That was nearly triple expectations.

Healthcare once again was the workhorse adding about half the gains, however, job growth

was some of the most widespread across industries that we've seen in a while.

Having said, there are some caveats that go alongside these numbers.

They were likely boosted in part by the end of big labor strikes as well as factors such

as favorable weather and tweaks in how the data is measured.

But still, 178,000 is certainly a reassuring number to see at a time when an ongoing war

has stoked uncertainty and cost prices to rise.

Political parties rarely win popularity contests, but a new poll from CNN is revealing how

voters who are mad at both parties are approaching the midterms.

CNN political director and Washington Bureau chief David Chalian has more on these so-called

double haters.

There are about a quarter of Americans in our poll who say they do not like either party.

Now here's the thing though, among that group, they overwhelmingly plan to vote for the

Democrat anyway in the fall, right now anyway, by like 31 points.

So the way I sort of describe this is, the Democratic Party has a brand problem, there's

no doubt about that, but it may not be an electoral problem when it comes to the midterms.

Federal officials have arrested eight people of running health care fraud schemes in Southern

California.

Thoroughly say those alleged schemes brought in $50 million, five of the cases involved

hospice care centers in and around the Los Angeles area.

The U.S. Attorney's Office alleges the suspects built Medicare patients who were not terminally

ill and did not qualify for hospice services.

The Trump administration has focused its latest anti-fraud efforts on California, particularly

the LA area, says the Democratic-led state is failing to crack down on improper spending.

Governor Gavin Newsom's office said the state has already aggressively cracked down on

hospice fraud, noting the state stopped issuing new hospice licenses in 2022 over fraud

concerns.

It has also revoked more than 280 licenses in two years with 300 other providers under investigation.

One more break when we come back, how AI could supercharge cyber attacks stick around.

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, host of the Chasing Life Podcast.

In his new documentary called 50 Years of Apple, my colleague and friend Bill Weir, he's

going to look at how these devices we carry every day didn't just transform technology,

but they helped reshape our entire culture.

I actually met some researchers and met a woman Emma Durden who has been studying the

screen time effects on young brains for the last few years now and it comes down just

to the power of these things.

I see to my own kids the addictive qualities in it at very young age especially and when

that young brain is you know better than most is not equipped to process these things there's

a cost to this.

Listen to Chasing Life, streaming now, wherever you get your podcasts.

If you find yourself worried about artificial intelligence, let me add another concern

to the pile.

AI assisted cyber attacks.

Those fears were amplified this week after Fortune magazine reported on an internal blog post

from the AI company Anthropic.

In it, Anthropic warned that its upcoming AI model called Mythos and others like it

will be able to exploit vulnerabilities quote in ways that far outpaste the efforts of defenders.

Open AI warned in December that its upcoming models posed a high cybersecurity risk.

Experts say agents that can carry out tasks autonomously will empower bad actors to take

their hacks to the next level.

Just think about it, the single AI agent could scan for vulnerabilities and potentially

take advantage of them way faster than hundreds of human hackers could.

The company told Fortune the blog post leak was the result of human error within its

content management system, it did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

All right, that's all we've got for right now.

You can find the very latest on that fighter jet shot down over Iran over at CNN.com and

we'll be back with another update later today.

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