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DTN 057: Artificial vision next frontier for brain implants
The Big Picture
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants is Artificial Vision
“Bussard is one of a small number of blind individuals around the world who have risked brain surgery to get a visual prosthesis. In Spain, researchers at Miguel Hernández University have implanted four people with a similar system. The trials are the culmination of decades of research.There’s interest from industry, too. California-based Cortigent is developing the Orion, which has been implanted in six volunteers. Elon Musk’s Neuralink is also working on a brain implant for vision. In an X post in March, Musk said Neuralink’s device, called Blindsight, is ‘already working in monkeys.’ He added: ‘Resolution will be low at first, like early Nintendo graphics, but ultimately may exceed normal human vision.’” (Wired)
Deep Tech News
- NASA has greenlit plans to send a giant drone to Saturn’s largest moon
- Colorado bill aims to protect consumer brain data
- Feds appoint “AI doomer” to run AI safety at US institute
- Dark is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit
- Space tourism balloon startup unveils ‘luxury’ capsule design
- This US startup makes a crucial chip material and is taking on a Japanese giant
- How thermal batteries are heating up energy storage
- RocketStart test fusion-enhanced in-space propulsion process
- CATL unveils Tesla Megapack competitor, claims zero degradation and more capacity
- NASA unveils probe bound for Jupiter’s possibly life-sustaining moon
- Space Force tees up new ‘responsive space’ mission from Rocket Lab and True Anomaly
- Google’s new technique gives LLMs infinite context
JPEG of the Week
Peer Review
- A universal path for converting light into current in solids
- 3D-printed “metamaterials” is stronger than anything nature
- New breakthrough promises ‘entirely secure’ quantum cloud computing
- Scientists found a way to supercharge cancer-fighting cells
- Developing a machine learning model to explore DNA methylation
- Evidence of a new subatomic particle observed
- A new type of seismic sensor to detect moonquakes
- The experimental demonstration of a verifiable blind quantum computing protocol
Funding x M&A
- Dutch cultivated meat startup secures €40M for ‘world’s kindest burger’
- Dutch deep tech fund for photonics startups reaches €75M after second close
- Space startup ICEYE raises €94M in growth equity
- SOSV founder says climate investing is a ‘war effort’ as firm closes $306M fund
- Space startups are licking their lips after NASA converts $11B Mars mission into a free-for-all
- Chip startup Rivos raises more than $250M to tap AI boom
- Samsung awarded $6.4B CHIPS Act grant to build 'semiconductor ecosystem' in Texas
- Qureight raises $8.5M to use AI to speed up the $92B clinical trials market
- Chevron leads $45M investment in carbon removal company Ion Clean Energy
- Cobot announces $100M Series B and reveals exclusive details about its non-humanoid robots
- DOE announces $75M to advance desalination and water reuse tech
- Spiber, a Japanese biomanufacturing startup, raised $86.5M in funding from existing shareholders
- Captura, a direct ocean capture company, raised a $5.3M Series A extension
- Sustainable insulation startup CleanFiber raised a $28M Series B
- OpenAI-rival Mistral AI is in talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation
- Magnus Metal, a startup building a metal casting technology that is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing, raised a $74M Series B
- GA Drilling, a startup specializing in deep geothermal drilling, raised $15M in funding
- Allen Control Systems, a defense technology company focused on counter-drone robotic gun systems, raised a $12M seed round
Miscellanea
Hollywood talent agency CAA tests AI clones / Future of Humanity Institute shuts down / The US now has an actual plan to connect clean energy to the grid / $10M to gold disguised as machine parts seized from cargo plane / Roman chariots responsible for the size of space shuttle booster rockets / House votes to extend - and expand - a major US spy program / US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply / James Dean, founding director of NASA art program, dies at 92 / If alien life is found, how should scientists break the news? / Millions of gamers advance biomedical research by helping to reconstruct microbial evolutionary histories / NASA confirms mystery object that crashed through roof of Florida home came from space station / A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades / Japanese police arrest man for tampering with Pokémon Violet save data / Dune ornithopters flap their blades in the wrong plane for vertical takeoff
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