Starlink announced today that in addition to the 10,000+ Starlink units provided to users in the areas impacted by Hurricane Helene, the company will provide free texting in conjunction with T-Mobile.
Already cellular users in Florida can see a “T-Mobile SpaceX” network which will enable free texting and 911 calls.
Thank you SpaceX.
The Justice Department just filed a brief to potentially break up Google. The technology giant earns billions of dollars from advertisers but also controls the devices, publishers, search traffic and more. The argument is that they are not breaking the law, but because they have a monopoly, they must do things to make it a fair marketplace.
Google Gemini is the latest AI system developed by Google’s DeepMind, the same team behind notable breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold. It’s part of the broader effort to create artificial general intelligence (AGI)—AI systems that can understand, learn, and perform tasks across a wide range of disciplines, just like a human.
One of the creators of Gemini, Geoffrey Hinton, recently won the Nobel Prize. See also Who is Noam Shazeer, a Gemini co-creator they recently acqui-hired back into Google.
While traditional AI models are often trained to excel in one specific area, Google Gemini is designed to be multi-modal. This means it can handle multiple types of input—text, images, video, and even audio—and generate meaningful output from them. Imagine a tool that can write a blog post, summarize a video, and help you design a visual presentation all at once. That’s the kind of versatility Gemini is aiming for.
John Hopfield is a physicist and neuroscientist best known for his contributions to theoretical neuroscience and artificial intelligence. He developed the Hopfield Network in 1982, a type of recurrent neural network that provided a foundation for modern AI and machine learning models. His work bridged physics, biology, and computation, emphasizing how systems of neurons can perform complex computations. Hopfield is also renowned for his work on associative memory and has made significant contributions to molecular biology. He has been a professor at Princeton University and the California Institute of Technology.
Geoffrey Hinton is a cognitive psychologist and computer scientist widely regarded as one of the pioneers of deep learning. He is known for his foundational work on artificial neural networks and the development of backpropagation algorithms, which are central to training modern deep learning models. Hinton’s work laid the groundwork for innovations in image recognition, natural language processing, and AI in general. He is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and has worked at Google as a key figure in their AI research division. Hinton has received numerous accolades, including the 2018 Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing,” shared with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio.
What is unique about Hinton: he’s an expert but also sounding alarm bells for society. Hinton believes A.I. will help us in healthcare but is concerned that the technology will eventually take over, and become very good at manipulating us (See Apple Intelligence).
Is everyone sure we want human shaped robots? What about the Uncanny Valley. Robots like the one Tesla is working on and even this Kepler are cool to look at. And yes, they will serve a purpose for us.
But a human is not an efficient robot form. Much more likely to be commercially viable first are simpler bots like cleaning robots and agriculture robots.
Here’s a quick look at Kepler:
“Free speech is the bedrock of democracy. If they don’t know the truth, how can you make an informed vote….President Trump must win to preserve the constitution, to preserve democracy…this is a must-win situation.”
Watch the full speech below. Musk had one request, there are only 2 days left to register to vote in Georgia and Arizona, everyone needs to register and refer others to vote via a site SwampTheVote.com.
Every person who wants to work should have opportunity to do so. America was built on this premise.
But specifically striking ‘against automation’ is futile. No group, not even vital port workers, can stop robotics from replacing certain jobs.
Take for example the cleaning services industry. It’s just a matter of time before much of that work is automated. It still will require humans, but more in the form of robot managers and maintenance technicians.
The “Digitization Gap” is huge. Organizations who don’t currently have automation and A.I. as their number one focus – and frankly already have progress implementing – are going to struggle.
Many SaaS companies will soon be extinct because it’s far more efficient to have A.I. agents and robots working with our data than to pay millions of dollars to software providers.
The most ironic but hardest hit segment of the workforce will actually be software developers. There is already really no reason to sit and code software. There’s need to architect software. We need robot wranglers in every industry.
This is true for our factories and ports. By next year at this time humanoid robots will be everywhere and they will start to truly replace our humans in the workforce.
Put down the picket signs and enroll in upskilling, starting today.
The companies building the building blocks of A.I. provided via Quartr – Financial Research and Investor Relations Platform.
