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Coherence Neuro, which is developing AI models and brain implants to help combat brain tumors, raised a $45M seed from the OpenAI Startup Fund and Founders Fund (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-startup-brain-implants-detect-cancer/

OpenAI Invests in Startup That Uses Brain Implants to Detect Cancer
It’s the latest in a growing wave of bets that AI companies are making on brain data.

Influencer-Trend: Handel mit leeren Luxus-Verpackungen floriert
Ein Trend auf Gebrauchtwaren-Börsen zeigt: Leere Originalverpackungen von Luxusgütern werden für hohe Summen gehandelt – oft für Social-Media-Inszenierungen.

Influencer-Trend: Handel mit leeren Luxus-Verpackungen floriert
Ein Trend auf Gebrauchtwaren-Börsen zeigt: Leere Originalverpackungen von Luxusgütern werden für hohe Summen gehandelt – oft für Social-Media-Inszenierungen.

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/tapirs-bats-and-nests-how-plastic-infiltrates-amazonian-wildlife/

Tapirs, bats and nests: How plastic infiltrates Amazonian wildlife
At the mouth of the Amazon River, birds are already building blue nests out of discarded plastic.

Neuralink manufacturing: why more implants require more than a bigger factory https://tesorb.com/neuralink-production-scaling-brain-implant-manufacturing/ Contributing to the Neuralink Blindsight clinical trial delays? ISO 13485:2016,

Neuralink Manufacturing: Scaling Beyond the Prototype
Scaling brain implants requires repeatable manufacturing, clinical evidence and care capacity. Examine the milestones that factory announcements cannot prove.

A look at the relationship between the Mormon Church and influencers; the church owns several advertising companies with influencer-marketing arms (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)

Man könnt sich ja morgen Eliane Radigues "Jetsun Mila" im Kraftwerkskamin Zwentendorf anhören, und noch so einiges anderes, aber ich vermute, ich bin zu faul dazu. #sound
https://ima.or.at/de/projekt/ima20plus…

Insofar China's push for implantable BCI development includes brain implants for the blind, this will also imply complementary development of smartglasses that may in turn render these brain implants redundant https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/116792852939522221

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs a law that will penalize influencers who do not properly disclose paid political content, with fines of up to $5K per post (Ken Bensinger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads
Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to make political content.

Neuralink manufacturing: why more implants require more than a bigger factory https://tesorb.com/neuralink-production-scaling-brain-implant-manufacturing/ Contributing to the Neuralink Blindsight clinical trial delays? ISO 13485:2016,

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants https://insidebci.com/news/2026-07-20-stairmed-18-patients-huashan-shanghai-penetrating-bci-trial/

StairMed's penetrating BCI trial at Huashan reaches 18 cumulative implants
On 20 July 2026, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, StairMed disclosed that its cortex-penetrating invasive BCI clinical trial at Huashan Hospital has now reached 18 cumulative implants since March 2025. The Shanghai firm co-founded by Zhao Zhengtuo and Xue Li at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Excellence in Brain Science demonstrated a patient three months post-op controlling a wheelchair by thought and hitting 6.19 bits per second on a cursor task, alongs…