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With Trump's election as president, one of his campaign promises is to initiate the largest immigration deportation action in U.S. history. On September 12, 2024, at an event in Tucson, Arizona, Trump stated that he would launch this action, particularly targeting immigrants with criminal records. He appointed hardliner Thomas Homan as 'Border Czar' and Stephen Miller as Deputy Chief of Policy, indicating that the new administration would take a radical stance on immigration issues. Image source note: Image by A

Recently, the Malaysian Customs Department installed 40 state-of-the-art luggage scanners at major entry points nationwide, with a total investment of up to 40.72 million ringgit. Customs Director General Ahnis Rizana stated at a press conference on September 27 that these scanners equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) technology significantly enhance the detection capabilities for travelers' luggage and belongings, effectively combating smuggling activities, including the trafficking of banned items such as drugs. Image source note: Image generated by AI, image licensed from service provider Midjourney. She mentioned that these 40 scanners began operations in May.

Recently, the globally renowned text-to-music model Suno has unveiled a stunning new feature - 'Covers', which means that users can simply press a button to cover songs in any style! Imagine being able to upload a popular song to Suno, and the AI will identify elements such as the score, instruments, rhythm, and melody, and recreate it in your chosen new style. The magic of this technology lies in the fact that while the overall rhythm and melody may change, the core essence of the original song is still preserved.

A song titled 'Verknallt in einen Talahon', themed around immigration and created using artificial intelligence technology, unexpectedly made it into the top 50 of the German music charts. The creator, Butterbro, generated the melody and vocals by inputting modern lyrics into the AI tool Udio, aiming to humorously mock male behavior. However, the term 'Talahon' in the lyrics sparked controversy, being perceived by some young Germans and Austrians as an insult to immigrants. The song features a narrative of 'good girls falling for bad boys.'

Melodisco is an open-source AI music player that focuses on personalized music experiences. It features a collection of 300,000 AI songs, with capabilities for AI music generation, smart recommendations, and diverse playlist management. Users can explore charts like the trending, popular, and new release charts, and use random roaming to discover new songs. It supports song favorites, recent play history, and import and share functionalities. In terms of player component design, it offers sequential, random, and single-loop play modes, along with progress and volume control. It integrates the Stripe payment system and supports Vercel and Dock.

Lately, Forbes published an article stating that automation driven by AI technology might be the key to solving issues such as immigration, declining birth rates, and retirement. However, strangely enough, automation is not part of the planned policy solution for these problems. Just like the U.S. federal government faced various issues in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, "speed of light" action was not one of them.Image Source Note: The image was generated by AI, provided by image authorizat

Microsoft Copilot has partnered with Suno to launch an AI music creation plugin. Users can create original songs by enabling the Suno plugin and providing a brief text prompt. Suno is an AI music startup based in Cambridge that offers music creation tools via the Discord platform. In addition to Suno, other companies like Meta and Google are also testing generative AI music tools.

Google is in talks with major music companies to license artists' voices and melodies for the generation of AI songs. This tool will allow fans and creators to legally produce music with recognizable vocals and melodies by paying fees to copyright holders. Music companies, artists, and fans are grappling with increasingly convincing 'fake music' and are calling for appropriate regulation in the industry.