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Elon Musk, CEO of the American electric car company Tesla, predicted on the 8th that AI (artificial intelligence) that surpasses humans “may come out within the next year.” Musk revealed this in an interview with Nikolai Tangen, CEO of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, conducted on his social networking service (SNS) X (formerly Twitter).

Musk said, “If we define AGI (artificial general intelligence) as AI that is smarter than the smartest human, it will probably be possible within the next year, say within two years.” Musk’s prediction is far ahead of the prediction of Jensen Huang, CEO of AI chip leader Nvidia, who said, “AGI at the same level as humans will emerge within five years.” He also said, “The limitations of AI development are voltage transformer supply and securing power,” and pointed out that the current power grid is unable to meet the increased demand resulting from the development of AI technology. Musk went on to say that his AI startup, xAI, “hopes to complete training for the next version of Grok in May.”

Grok is an AI chatbot like ChatGPT, developed by xAI, an AI startup founded by Musk in July of last year, based on the large-scale language model (LLM) Grok-1 and introduced in December of the same year. He also predicted that, as competition surrounding the development of AI technology intensifies, “China will not lag behind the United States.” Musk also announced plans for SpaceX, a private space company he leads, to explore the Moon and Mars. Musk envisions completing human migration by building a self-sufficient city on Mars by 2050.

First, he said, “We will take people to the moon within five years.” He also expressed confidence that “the unmanned spacecraft Starship will reach Mars within five years, and humanity will be able to land on Mars for the first time within seven years.” This is about 4 to 5 years later than Musk originally announced that humans would be able to land on Mars in 2026. Starship, a spacecraft developed by Space Regarding difficulties in vehicle sales due to conflicts with unions in Sweden at the end of last year, Musk said, “The storm has passed,” and said the worst was over and things were now “in pretty good shape.” Musk previously announced on the 5th that he would unveil Tesla’s self-driving robotaxi (unmanned taxi) in August. He did not reveal specific details about the robotaxi, but only wrote on his for the past several years, Musk has emphasized the robotaxi project, in which Tesla vehicles drive unmanned using their own autonomous driving technology and pick up passengers for a fee like taxis.

Tesla’s stock price, which rose about 5% in after-hours trading on the New York Stock Exchange after this news was announced, closed at $172.98 in regular trading today, up 4.9% from the previous trading day.

Applications for the “California Dream for All Program,” which provides down payment support of up to $150,000 interest-free to first-time homebuyers, have begun. Online applications can be submitted at calhfa.ca.gov, and the deadline is 5 p.m. on April 29.

Last year, the first implementation ended early due to a large influx of applicants and $300 million in funds was exhausted in 11 days, but this time, new guidelines were revised, and application reception resumed. Last year, when it was implemented for 11 days, there were many speculations and rumors about the program as benefits were extended to residents who were able to purchase a home.

This time, the application qualifications were strengthened, and the first-come-first-served basis of benefits was changed to a lottery system. According to the new guidelines, eligible applicants must be residents who have not owned a home in the past three years and whose parents must not own a home. The income standard to receive benefits is up to 120 percent of the area median income, which includes annual income of $155,000 or less if you buy a home in Los Angeles County, and $202,000 or less in Orange County.

The subsidy is 20 percent of the purchase price of the home, and the maximum subsidy amount you can receive is $150,000. This time, approximately 1,700 to 2,000 people will be selected and receive vouchers to receive housing assistance.

The vouchers can be attached to a house contract to proceed with the purchase of a house.

UC Berkeley parents have mobilized private security guards to protect students on campus in response to the recent surge in crime around campus. UC Berkeley is dissatisfied, saying that campus security should be left to the university. The Los Angeles Times reported that in recent years, as crimes such as theft and sexual assault have increased around the UC Berkeley campus, parents have raised funds to ensure the safety of their children and hired private security to patrol the campus.

The private security guards provided by UC Berkeley parents are called “Safe Bears” Ambassadors. They patrol around campus from 6:30 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. They do not carry weapons but wear uniforms. Parents raised $42,000 and hired six private security guards to temporarily mobilize private security guards to patrol around student apartments on campus for 17 days from the 6th to the 23rd. The security guard program has ended.

Although there have been cases where students have asked private security guards to provide escorts, in most cases, the mere presence of these security guards patrolling the campus area is effective in preventing crime, according to parents who participated in the Safe Bears program. A total of 1,300 parents participated in the Safe Bears program.

Due to the increasing crime rate around campus, we met online to discuss opinions and agreed to provide private security. The Safe Bears Parent Association was formed in 2022 when one person was killed, and three others were injured in a shooting in front of the U.S. Berkeley campus. Parents are complaining that the school is responding too laxly to the recent surge in crime around the U.S. Berkeley campus. It has been reported that incidents of robbery and sexual assault have increased significantly around the UCY Berkeley campus in the past few years.

Vehicle theft cases have increased dramatically. The number of vehicle thefts, which was 81 in 2021, soared to 307 in 2022 the following year. Here, vehicle theft includes scooters and bikes used by students. A total of 7,960 property and violent crimes were reported around campus in 2023, an increase of 700 from the previous year.

The university’s position is that it is dissatisfied with parents’ use of private security guards. They say that if they donate to the university, the university will strengthen security on their own, but they are dissatisfied that the existence of private security guards can create a preconceived notion that campus security is bad, and that it is not possible to check whether the private security guards have been properly trained.

The issue of security on college campuses should be handled in coordination with the university and is not a matter for parents to act arbitrarily. It was revealed that the university currently employs 45 campus police officers.

As it was confirmed that all of those missing from the large bridge collapse that occurred in Baltimore, Maryland were immigrants, the government of their home country expressed its sorrow and solidarity with the families of the missing people.

Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador said at a regular press conference on the 27th (local time), “Two out of three of our citizens are missing in the Baltimore accident,” and “one person was rescued and is being treated at a hospital.”

Mexico’s president added that he would not disclose specific identities at the request of the families of the missing and emphasized the tragedy as “evidence of how much immigrants contribute to the U.S. economy.” “Immigrants from Central and South America are going out in the middle of the night and doing dangerous work in the United States for their families in their home countries,” he said. “In other words, there is no reason for immigrants to be treated the way they are now by some insensitive and irresponsible politicians in the United States.” “I do it,” he emphasized.

The Guatemalan government also announced that two of its citizens, a 26-year-old man and a 35-year-old man, were missing. Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo said on his social networking service “I will do it,” he wrote. El Salvador’s Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill Tinoco and the Honduran government also confirmed that one of their citizens each went missing while working on the Baltimore Bridge.

In the case of Mainor Yasir Suazó Sandoval, 39, a missing person from Honduras, he came to the United States alone 18 years ago as an undocumented (illegal) person and was working to bring his family from his native village to the United States. AP The news agency reported.

“Sandoval, the youngest of eight children, was taking steps to obtain legal residency and had planned to return to Honduras sometime this year to complete the process,” his brother said in an AP interview. “However, if we hear the worst outcome, the family will work hard to bring his body to his hometown in Honduras.”

As this disparaging name for the opponent clearly shows, this year’s U.S. presidential election, which was held as a return match between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, is unfolding into the worst muddy fight.

According to a report from The Hill, an American political media outlet, on the 21st, the Biden camp said in a recent email to supporters, “Trump is in the basement,” and added “broke,” which means “broke,” before Trump’s name. “Trump can’t raise money. He’s not campaigning,” he wrote in an email. “Criminals and conspiracy theorists are campaigning.”

As former President Trump must bear astronomical litigation costs due to four criminal indictments on charges of attempting to overturn the presidential election, as well as civil lawsuits related to asset-inflating fraud and defamation, the Trump campaign’s fundraising performance is falling significantly behind the Biden camp. It was mocked. It also highlighted the situation in which President Biden has been actively campaigning through battleground states since the presidential election was set up with a rematch between former and incumbent presidents earlier this month, while former President Trump is showing relatively quiet movements.

The expression ‘Scam Donald’ appears to be a derogatory term equivalent to ‘Corrupt Joe’, which former President Trump used for President Biden. Former President Trump linked President Biden to allegations of misconduct by President Biden’s second son, Hunter Biden, and has been calling President Biden ‘crooked’ since April of last year, which can be interpreted to mean ‘dishonest’ and ‘corrupt’.

I started using modifiers.

President Biden raised suspicions from Republican lawmakers that Hunter Biden used his father’s influence to gain unfair profits in transactions with foreign companies while working as an executive at the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings during his father’s vice-presidential term (2009-2017). was defined as the mastermind behind power-related corruption.

While the impeachment investigation into this suspicion has been conducted, President Biden’s involvement has not yet been revealed, but former President Trump continues to use the expression ‘corrupt Joe’. With various surveys showing that most American voters do not want to see a rematch between current and former presidents who are old (Biden 81 and Trump 77), this election seems to be centered on negative battles rather than presenting a new vision from the beginning.

After ‘Super Tuesday’ (simultaneous primary elections in 16 states) on the 5th, where the situation was decided as a bilateral confrontation, President Biden’s side began to launch an offensive against former President Trump in earnest, and the slugfest is heating up in earnest.

The results are attracting attention as the New York State Equal Rights Amendment is scheduled to be submitted as a residents’ initiative in the general election in November this year.

As a proposal to amend the state constitution, in June 2022, when the Supreme Court overturned the so-called Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized the right to abortion, for the first time in 50 years, New York State introduced an equal rights clause that included the right to abortion. Expansion and codification are underway.

The current New York State Constitution, adopted in 1938, stipulates equality with respect to race, color, creed, or religion. Ethnicity, national origin, and age are included in the equal rights. Reproductive rights such as disability, gender-sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, contraception and abortion, and gender reassignment were added. The content is to be modified. Meanwhile, as of March, with about 7 months left until the vote, it was found that there were many opinions in favor of the ‘New York State Equal Rights Amendment’.

According to the results of a recent survey conducted by Global Strategy Group (GSG), 71% of responding voters expressed their support for the ‘New York State Equal Rights Amendment.’ 82% of Democrats and 70% of independents approved, and more than half of conservative Republicans (51%) also approved.

The New York Governor deploys the National Guard for just one week. Subway security insecurity deepens another shooting incident occurred on a subway in Brooklyn. Shooting occurred in a crowded subway during rush hour, putting many passengers in fear.

According to the New York Police Department (NYPD) and the New York Times, at around 4:45 p.m. on the 14th, an argument broke out between Dahuin Robinson, a 36-year-old man, and Younes Obouad, a 32-year-old man, on the A line train heading to Hoyt-Schmerhorn Station in downtown Brooklyn.

An incident occurred while losing. Two men who did not know each other got into an argument over seats, which eventually led to a physical collision. A video filmed by a passenger shows a 36-year-old man repeatedly threatening to “hit” a 32-year-old man.

As the two men fought, the woman who was with the 32-year-old man stabbed the 36-year-old man in the waist area with something, and the 36-year-old man became enraged and pulled out a gun from his jacket. A 32-year-old man saw this and immediately snatched the 36-year-old man’s gun and started shooting several times.

A 36-year-old man, who was seriously injured after being shot four times in the face, neck, and chest, is in critical condition, but his life is reportedly not in danger.

According to the NYPD, the shooting occurred as the train was entering the platform of the Hoyt-Schmerhorn station.

It instantly became chaos as commuters on the subway platform during rush hour ducked in fear at the sound of gunshots. The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced that it would not prosecute the 32-year-old man who shot him, acknowledging that it was self-defense.

This incident occurred a week after New York Governor Cathy Hokull announced the deployment of the National Guard and implementation of bag checks to prevent frequent subway crimes.

On the 15th, the day after the incident, Jano River, chairman of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), condemned the violence and called for stronger gun regulations.

President Joe Biden used a mix of light jokes and sharp criticism to repeatedly warn why former President Donald Trump should not win the U.S. presidential election in November.

At a dinner party held at Gridiron, a leading journalists’ club in Washington, D.C., on the 16th, President Biden said that two presidential candidates were confirmed as candidates for each party this week, saying, “One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. “It does,” he said. He then humorously said, “The other one is me.” Recently, rather than trying to avoid the controversy over his advanced age, which is considered his greatest weakness, President Biden is responding head-on through ‘self-torture gags’. President Biden entered the banquet hall after 7 p.m. and began his speech three hours later.

He then joked, “It’s already 6 hours past my bedtime.” He also said, “I hate seeing a friend give up in his prime,” regarding the decision of Republican Mitch McConnell, the 82-year-old leader of the U.S. Senate, to resign from his position in November. He claimed that his 80s were his prime, which sparked controversy about his advanced age.

President Biden then continued to make jokes about former President Trump. “I’m running against the same guy I beat in 2020, but don’t let him know,” President Biden said. “He thinks he’s running against Barack Obama.” This remark was aimed at former President Trump confusing President Biden with former President Obama on several occasions. President Biden also seemed to be mindful of the controversy over former President Trump’s failure to remember his wife Melania’s name, saying, “The other biggest difference between us is that I know what is most precious to me. I’m not going to lose it.”

While explaining his main policy, student loan forgiveness, he said, “Just yesterday a guy who looked defeated came up to me and said, ‘I’m drowning in debt. I’m completely broke.’ And I said, ‘I’m sorry.’ “I said, ‘Donald, I can’t help you,’” he explained. It is interpreted that he was criticizing the situation in which former President Trump had to pay hundreds of billions of won in damages and fines due to a series of civil lawsuit losses. President Biden also used the Republican hardliners who were hindering his administration as the subject of his jokes. “I heard that the House Republicans also wanted to speak tonight, but they couldn’t find a speaker,” he said.

It was a mockery of the situation in which the House Republican Party ousted former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy due to infighting, and even the leadership of his successor, Speaker Mike Johnson, was shaken. President Biden also said that the Prime Minister of Ireland, who visited the United States to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, also attended this dinner, and said, “The Prime Minister took one look at Congress and asked for another Guinness.” He pointed out that foreign governments find it frustrating that the Republican Party is trying to impeach him and the Secretary of Homeland Security while blocking the passage of legislation to resolve border issues.

In the second half of the speech, he explained in a serious tone why former President Trump should not be elected. This is a reference to former President Trump’s statement last month that he was targeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and claiming, ‘security free riding’, saying, “I will encourage them (Russia) to do whatever they want.”

President Biden then introduced Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markalova and Estonian Prime Minister Kaya Kalas, who were also present at the dinner, and emphasized, “We will not give in. They (Ukraine) will not give in, and I will not give in.”

Regarding the media, which President Trump has repeatedly targeted, President Biden said, “You are not the enemy of the people. You are the pillar of every free society.” He also said that the role of a free press has become more important in ensuring that American democracy continues. “We need you. Democracy is at stake and the American people need to know this.”

More than 650 people attended the dinner, including media figures such as Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos, Biden administration officials such as Vice President Kamala Harris, and politicians from both parties. President Biden joked, “Jeff is a strong supporter of the media. He is the richest person in the world and that’s despite owning the Washington Post.”

The Washington Post has been unable to avoid losses even after Bezos’ takeover, and has been pursuing a ‘buyout’, which is effectively the equivalent of dismissal, for some employees since last year.

President Joe Biden showed off his spirit by collecting $10 million in donations in just one day after his ‘fiery’ State of the Union address. According to President Biden’s campaign headquarters on the 10th, more than $10 million in donations poured in in 24 hours after the State of the Union address on the 7th, hitting its own highest.

The Biden campaign said, “We are grateful to the grassroots supporters who contributed more than ever to President Biden’s re-election,” and added, “This State of the Union address will help many of our supporters see who is fighting for them and this election for freedom and democracy.” “I was able to realize the importance of,” he said.

President Biden, who has been unable to overcome his slump in approval ratings due to internal divisions in his support base and concerns about his aging following the Israel-Hamas war, is evaluated as having laid the foundation for a reversal with his outspoken State of the Union speech. In this speech, President Biden sharpened his teeth at former President Donald Trump, who was confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate, and impressed Americans as a strong national leader.

New York Times (NYT) columnist Ezra Klein, who has been advocating for President Biden to step down, even withdrew his demand for his resignation on this day. “If the Biden who gave the State of the Union address last week is the same Biden who will spend the rest of the presidential campaign, the argument that he is not qualified to run for re-election will have no place,” he wrote.

“I hope he does.” It was calculated that President Biden’s State of the Union address was watched by a total of 32.2 million people.

This is an 18% increase from last year, and if the number of viewers watched through online streaming and social media is included, the total number of viewers is expected to increase further. President Biden also collected $42 million in donations last January, far ahead of former President Trump ($8.8 million).

However, in the case of former President Trump, donations to related organizations were not included, and since it was a time when Republican Party donations were dispersed, simple comparisons are difficult. Former President Trump, who was embroiled in numerous lawsuits, is currently using most of his political donations, which are military funds for the presidential election, for judicial expenses.

A shooting occurred at a party in Arkansas, killing three people, including the suspect, and wounding at least four others. According to the Jonesboro Police Department in Arkansas on the 10th, just before 5 a.m., police were dispatched to the scene after receiving a report that multiple shots had been fired inside a building in the area.

Police confirmed that three people, including a man suspected of shooting, were shot dead at the scene, and that four injured people were taken to the hospital and are being treated. The shooting occurred during a private party at an abandoned building in northeast Little Rock, and police are speaking to witnesses at the scene to determine details of the incident.

As a result of the initial investigation, it was confirmed that three of the casualties, including one dead woman and one man, and one injured woman, were acquaintances of the suspect, while the remaining three had no relationship with the suspect.

Police did not disclose how the shooting suspect died. CNN reported that police believe the incident resulted from a domestic conflict.

According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), an American non-profit organization, this incident was the 73rd mass shooting that occurred in the United States this year.