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According to Elon Musk, Neuralink is making great progress on its "Blindsight" implant, which is "already working in monkeys."
Prosthetics and Devices

Elon Musk Claims Neuralink Already Allowing Blind Monkeys to See Again

"Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision."

A young woman's eyes became permanently damaged after she looked at a solar eclipse without proper eye protection.
Studies

Woman Has Permanent Crescent in Vision After Staring at Eclipse

A warning.

During a recent interview with Jimmy Fallon "The Tonight Show," comedian Tracy Morgan said he was able to "out-eat Ozempic."
Health & Medicine

Tracy Morgan Says He Actually Managed to Gain Weight on Ozempic With Superhuman Eating Abilities

"I out-ate Ozempic. I’ve gained 40 pounds. I’m like Magic Johnson."

Astronomers believe an egg-shaped exoplanet is hurtling towards its parent star faster than previously thought.
Off-World

Astronomers Intrigued by Planet Shaped Like Egg

Egg hunt came early.

Medicare could soon start to pay for weight-loss treatment drug Wegovy, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Health & Medicine

Medicare Says It Will Start Paying for Wegovy

Here's who could be covered.

Angela Chao, who drowned after backing into a pond while driving a Tesla, had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit.
Tesla

Billionaire Who Died in Tesla Had Three Times Legal Blood Alcohol to Drive

She accidentally drove into a pond.

After a rare captivity birth, a family of endangered siamang gibbons were "heard singing together" to celebrate the new arrival.
Future Society

Endangered Primates Heard “Singing Together” After Rare Birth in Captivity

"The birth of any endangered species is always a cause for celebration."

Reddit founder and CEO Steve Huffman gifted himself a stunning $193 million compensation package — while mods get nothing.
Future Society

Reddit CEO Defends His Absurdly High Pay While Not Paying Mods

He gifted himself a ludicrous $193 million compensation package.

OpenAI has apparently been demonstrating GPT-5, the next generation of its notorious large language model, to prospective buyers.
Future Society

OpenAI Reportedly Looking to Release GPT-5 This Summer

"It's really good, like materially better."

Chipmaker Nvidia has shown off a clone of our entire planet that could help meteorologists simulate and visualize global weather patterns.
Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia Is Simulating a Copy of the Earth

Welcome to Earth-2.

As next-generation weight-loss treatments like Wegovy fly off the shelves, scientists are working on an exercise pill.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Working on Pill You Can Take Instead of Exercising

"It can complement exercise programs to give more benefits to patients as well."

Surgeons at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a gene-hacked pig into a living man.
Developments

Patient Walking Around Hospital After Transplant of Gene-Hacked Pig Kidney

Pig kidneys "could solve an intractable problem."

A livestream by Neuralink on Wednesday introduces the public for the first time to the first human recipient of its brain implant.
Neuroscience and Brain

Paralyzed Neuralink Patient Playing “Civilization VI” With His Mind

"It's all being done with my brain."

People Are Selling Chunks of SpaceX’s Exploded Starship on eBay
Future Society

People Are Selling Chunks of SpaceX’s Exploded Starship on eBay

They're being sold for thousands of dollars each.

The team behind a promising new menopause treatment says they want to empower women to choose when — or even if — they go through menopause. 
Studies

Scientists Working on Drug to Indefinitely Delay Menopause

"This drug couldn’t just delay the menopause, it could actually prevent it."

Researchers taught an AI to think before it speaks like a human's inner monologue — and found that it made the model smarter.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Gave AI an “Inner Monologue” and Something Fascinating Happened

This model may "close the gap between language model and human-like reasoning capabilities," researchers hope.

Scientists have uncovered results that suggest a strong association between the risk of developing erectile dysfunction and computer usage.
Computers

Using Computers Strongly Linked to Erectile Dysfunction

Bad news, gamers.

Google faces a $270 million fine from France for using articles from media companies to train its AI chatbot, Gemini, without permission.
Google

Google Hit With Huge Fine for Training AI With News Articles Without Getting Permission

Is a $270 million fine a big enough sting?

AI chip manufacturer Nvidia and the startup Hippocratic AI are teaming up to replace nurses with freaky AI healthcare "agents."
Prosthetics and Devices

Nvidia Announces AI-Powered “Agents” to Replace Nurses in Hospitals

This sucks so bad.

Several key AI developers, who worked on Stable Diffusion, Stability AI's popular text-to-image generator, have resigned, Forbes reports.
Artificial Intelligence

Stability AI Is Falling Apart

Looks like Stable Diffusion is anything but stable.