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An interview with Galen Buckwalter, a BCI recipient in a Caltech brain implant study, on his recent ability to use the implant to produce musical tones (Emily Mullin/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-man-making-music-with-his-brain-implant/

Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

The Trump administration’s pattern of granting sympathetic, right-wing influencers with large digital followings
special access to its mass deportation operation
is broad and involves dozens of people.
TPM chose to focus in depth on four influencers, each with different audiences, approaches, and backgrounds.
They are Ben #Bergquam,
his sometimes associate Josh

Inside the Bizarre Feedback Loop Between DHS and MAGA Influencers
As DHS officers flooded into Minneapolis on an early December day, Mahamed...

Javier Milei’s inflation ‘miracle’ in Argentina is a warning to the world, not a blueprint https://theconversation.com/javier-mileis-inflation-miracle-in-argentina-is-a-warning-to-the-world-not-a-blueprint-278840

Javier Milei’s inflation ‘miracle’ in Argentina is a warning to the world, not a blueprint
Inflation has fallen in Argentina, but at enormous cost.

Contrary to Elon Musk's claims about Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant admits about their V1 implant that it will not work for congenitally blind adults, i.e. "blindness contracted from birth as then the visual cortex does not develop normally" https://www.revision-implant.com/faq

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

A◌re y◌ou r◌eady? #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/are-you-ready

A◌re y◌ou r◌edy? | i18n fails
Grapheme cluster, shaping, fallback, …and swash.

Jim Cramer on inflation report: ‘These numbers are just bad’
https://thehill.com/business/5857905-iran-war-inflation-cramer/

Anthropic's Claude Security, formerly Claude Code Security, is in public beta for Enterprise users; the Opus 4.7-powered tool can scan code for vulnerabilities (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-opens-claude-s…

Anthropic Opens Claude Security Beta as Mythos Access Fight Deepens
Anthropic has published Claude Security today as a public beta for Claude Enterprise customers, turning a February research preview into a product for code scanning and patch workflows. It scans repositories, validates findings, and routes fixes through Claude Code. But the launch lands as the White House pushes back on expanded Mythos access, leaving Anthropic to draw a line between commercial defense and restricted frontier cyber capability for buyers.

A profile of Spanish-language US news influencer Carlos Eduardo Espina, who has ~22.5M followers, relies on traditional media, and provides help to his viewers (Graciela Mochkofsky/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-rise-of-a-spanis…

The Rise of a Spanish-Language News Influencer
Graciela Mochkofky writes about how Carlos Eduardo Espina reaches millions of followers, on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

How influencers boosting US-based AI and opposing Chinese AI are paid with money tied to Leading the Future, funded by execs from OpenAI, Palantir, a16z, others (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/super-pac-back

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.