Simon Spichak

Microsoft's BioGPT AI, designed to answer questions about medicine and biology, claims ghosts are real and vaccines cause autism.

Dr. Roboto

Developments

Microsoft’s medical AI is pretty impressive — except when it claims vaccines might cause autism, and that hospitals are haunted by ghosts.

Microsoft Released an AI That Answers Medical Questions, But It’s Wildly Inaccurate

Max Hodak started Neuralink with Elon Musk. But he later left the company and started Science Corp -- and now he's rapidly catching up.

Eyes Have It

"Engineering the brain is really this very transcendent goal if you take it seriously."

Meet the Neuralink Cofounder Who Left and Started a Competitor That's Now Rapidly Catching Up

NFTs were supposed to help independent artists. Instead, many say that they're forcing to deal with a bunch of new headaches.

Art Flop

"Every artist I know is getting their work jacked."

Independent Artists Say NFTs Are the Bane of Their Existence

Despite its very recent approval, startups are already lining up to prescribe a new weight loss drug called Wegovy, a tradename for semaglutide.

Complicated Topic

Treatments

Is this drug a game changer? The answer is complicated.

Startups Are Rushing to Prescribe a New Weight Loss Drug, But Questions Remain

A biotech startup helmed by provocative Harvard geneticist George Church has secured $15 million in funding to bring back woolly mammoths.

Big Fellas

Remember that movie “Jurassic Park”?

George Church Has Raised $15M to Bring an Elephant-Mammoth Hybrid to Life. Could It Actually Work?

Departed Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak is working on what appears to be a well-funded new brain interface venture called Science Corp.

New Coke

"We're hiring!"

Departed Neuralink Co-Founder Locks Down $47 Million for Secretive Neuroscience Startup

Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface startup, has been without a president for almost an entire quarter -- and it's unclear what's going on.

Simon Spichak

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