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At CES 2025, Elon Musk joined Mark Penn the Stagwell CEO, and 25 CMOs to discuss AI, robotics, Neuralink, space exploration, and Mars colonization. Musk shared bold predictions on AI’s role in cognitive tasks, humanoid robots, autonomous cars, and X’s future as a platform for collective human consciousness. They also explored government’s role in tech, internet connectivity, and combating global pessimism.

00:00 Introduction and Welcome.
01:52 Elon Musk on AI and Future Technology.
05:12 Advancements in Self-Driving Cars.
07:23 Humanoid Robots and Their Impact.
09:26 Mars Colonization Plans.
11:24 Neuralink and Brain-Computer Interfaces.
14:03 Government Efficiency and Budget Cuts.
17:49 Freedom of Speech and Social Media.
23:50 Optimism for the Future.

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Human brains take in sensory data at more than 1 billion bits per second, but only process that information at a measly 10 bits per second, new research has found.

The AI behavior models controlling how robots interact with the physical world haven’t been advancing at the crazy pace that GPT-style language models have – but new multiverse ‘world simulators’ from Nvidia and Google could change that rapidly.

There’s a chicken-and-egg issue slowing things down for AI robotics; large language model (LLM) AIs have enjoyed the benefit of massive troves of data to train from, since the Internet already holds an extraordinary wealth of text, image, video and audio data.

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Internet service providers (ISPs) and governmental entities in the Middle East have been targeted using an updated variant of the EAGERBEE malware framework.

The new variant of EAGERBEE (aka Thumtais) comes fitted with various components that allow the backdoor to deploy additional payloads, enumerate file systems, and execute commands shells, demonstrating a significant evolution.

“The key plugins can be categorized in terms of their functionality into the following groups: Plugin Orchestrator, File System Manipulation, Remote Access Manager, Process Exploration, Network Connection Listing, and Service Management,” Kaspersky researchers Saurabh Sharma and Vasily Berdnikov said in an analysis.

Breaking the limits of light control: non-hermitian silicon photonic switching.

Imagine a new way of controlling [#light](https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/light?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZXWUWLMvFSlCWqwebCELVs4-fbCMnldCKnIVGZrgtNUTRTTYSpzFXQZE36EXaisrk4LktWLvfOHDWvPYLl3repY1GFTT1cBs7NW6b5tSZsCm6hrhxySUves0ATBtZTjr9RkS4buJBybFVuHrOjdR8CZM25CUC_y1s-Pyhej3ftz6g&__tn__=*NK-R) that defies conventional expectations, enabling faster and more efficient communication networks. This is the promise of non-Hermitian photonics, a cutting-edge field that manipulates light using the full range of complex optical properties, including gain and loss. By carefully balancing these properties, researchers have unlocked surprising behaviors, such as the ability for light to flow in counterintuitive ways.

In this study, scientists have created a revolutionary non-Hermitian switching network on a tiny, two-layer photonic chip. The chip is a hybrid design, combining a bottom silicon layer with a top layer made of indium gallium arsenide phosphide (InGaAsP), a material that amplifies light. This combination allows light to be controlled with remarkable precision.

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United Airlines is speeding up its timeline for connecting its fleet to Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite network that provides high-speed internet around the globe.

The airline expects to begin testing Starlink in February with the first commercial flight anticipated in the spring on a United Embraer E-175 aircraft, used for regional flights. United plans to outfit its entire two-cabin regional fleet, about 200 planes, with the service by the end of 2025.

And United anticipates seeing its first Starlink-connected mainline aircraft take off before the end of the year.

United Airlines passengers could have access to Starlink-enabled Wi-Fi as soon as this spring.

The company first announced a deal inked with Elon Musk’s Starlink in September, promising customers that it would offer “fast, reliable Wi-Fi service” on its mainline and regional aircraft fleet for free.

On Sunday, the company said it had accelerated its planned timeline. Testing is set to begin next month, followed by a rollout that will have United’s two-cabin regional fleet outfitted with Starlink and the first Starlink-enabled plane flying on major routes before the end of the year. United said it will eventually add Starlink to its entire fleet.

Starship aims to deploy simulated Starlink satellites during Flight Test 7.