Zambia has started connecting 751 health facilities across all 10 provinces with Starlink, and the first 90 kits went to Western Province.
There's something poetic about where they started. Every year at the end of the rainy season the upper Zambezi floods the Barotse plain, and for centuries the Lozi king has left his compound at Lealui by royal barge and moved to higher ground at Limulunga. The ceremony is called Kuomboka. In Lozi it means "to get out of water."
Now picture running fiber or building towers across land that turns into a lake for part of every year. A Starlink dish only needs a clear view of the sky, so the water below stops being the problem.
In March 2020, months before Starlink had its first beta users, Elon Musk said it would serve the 3 or 4 percent hardest-to-reach customers, people with no connectivity or really bad connectivity. Six years later, with funding from the Global Fund through Zambia's Ministry of Health, clinics on one of Africa's great floodplains are being brought into the country's electronic health systems from orbit.
“Jensen has been incredibly good at retaining talent. There are very few high-profile departures from the NVIDIA executive team.”
“This is probably when the sharks are in the water. The VCs are going to come in and offer people billions of dollars to start their own chip companies, their own neolabs.”
“If a year from now we’ve seen a bunch of departures from NVIDIA, I’m going to be really concerned about their future.”
“Steve Jobs is a pure visionary, and Jensen is negotiating every supply chain contract.”
“If there’s any manufacturing issues with Rubin, people are distracted and Jensen’s not there. Things get solved slower, things get solved by committees.”
129 people on board and the ship taking on water rapidly is honestly terrifying. A fuel tanker called Atlantic Asphalt hit the American Heritage cruise ship while it was moored on the Mississippi River. Was a power loss on the tanker the real cause? 🚢 👇
🏝️ @ai_for_success put Hydrogen’s four thinking levels and /swarm to work in @Antigravity to build this interactive 3D island lagoon.
Complete with custom water shaders, dynamic weather, and a sailboat you can pilot from dawn to night ⛵
China’s AG600 “Kunlong”,a homegrown amphibious aircraft, drops 12 tonnes of water in 2 seconds onto a burning forest, putting out the fire in an instant.
In 2014, Elon Musk stood in front of an audience at MIT and told the whole world exactly where AI was going.
Everyone missed it. Because he used one word, and that's the only thing the internet remembered: "demon."
The headlines called him scared of killer robots. Tech blogs called it hyperbole. People moved on.
I went back and watched that moment. It's barely 2 minutes long. You'll never hear the word "AI" the same way again.
Here's what I took away.
1. He called it before almost anyone.
Someone in the audience asks about AI. His face goes serious.
"If I were to guess like what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that. So we need to be very careful with the artificial intelligence."
This was 2014. No ChatGPT. Most people had never heard the word "chatbot."
2. He asked for rules 12 years ago.
"I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish."
National AND international. In 2014.
Governments are still arguing about it today.
3. The demon line wasn't a joke.
"With artificial intelligence we are summoning the demon."
And then the part almost nobody quotes:
"In all those stories where there's the guy with the pentagram and the holy water, it's like, yeah, he's sure he can control the demon. Doesn't work out."
Read that again.
His warning wasn't about the demon. It was about the guy who thinks he can control it.
4. Now here's what got me.
In 2014 he said: summoning the demon.
In 2018 he told Joe Rogan: "Nobody listened."
In 2023 he signed a letter asking AI labs to pause.
In 2026 he told The Economist he can't see any way to stop it anymore. His new philosophy? "Let's enjoy the ride." And: "If you can't beat them, join them."
Today he's building one of the most powerful AIs on Earth.
12 years later, the man who warned us about the guy with the pentagram is holding one.
My takeaway:
He wasn't wrong in 2014. He just realized nobody was going to stop it. So he decided to build it himself.
Whether that's genius or the exact ending of his own story, I honestly don't know.
So now I'm asking you:
Was Musk right in 2014?
Or did he become the guy in his own warning?
Tell me below. I genuinely want to know where people land on this.