MIT Technology Review

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

The country wants to become a global leader in brain implants. Strong government support is expected to help accelerate that ...
MIT Technology Review

The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions

Sitting in the courtyard of his house in China’s Henan province last October, Dong Hui decided to try holding a pen. Six ...

Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In the Early Days of Machine Learning, Massive Computers Said George Harrison Was a Woman. A.I. Has Come a Long Way

A Cornell professor designed a room-size network of sensors that represented a single neuron. He claimed it would grow wiser ...

In the U.S., scientists are keeping human brains “alive” outside the body to test drugs for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and it’s reigniting the debate nobody wants ...

Scientists are using postmortem human brains to test new drugs. Discover how this breakthrough is changing medicine and ...