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The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare

2 SpaceX plans to raise $75 billion in IPO at $135 per shareThe company intends to sell 555.6 million shares. (Reuters $)+ The fixed price breaks from the traditional IPO process. (Bloomberg... Read more »

The Download: AI can run your admin department now

That’s where AI comes in. Today’s models can already take on a range of basic administrative work, from organizing notes and summarizing meetings to invoicing, goal-setting, and social media planning. Find out... Read more »

Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

Building on that success, HSS is now deploying AI agents in non-clinical patient-facing settings with an AI scheduling and triage service, as part of a collaboration with enterprise agentic AI developer Ema... Read more »

How small businesses can leverage AI

Case study Sam Finnegan-Dehn works in fundraising for a charity, but he moonlights as a math and philosophy tutor for university students from his home in London. Through this part-time business, he... Read more »

The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions

4 The US, Australia, and UK will defend seabed cables with underwater dronesThey’re developing the vehicles via the trilateral AUKUS defense ⁠pact. (CNN)+ Undersea internet cables face growing threats. (BBC) 5 A... Read more »

China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer chip—here’s what’s next

NEO beat several other BCIs to approval, including one from Neuralink, a California-based company founded by Elon Musk. Since October 2023, Neuracle has conducted 36 clinical trials using NEO, including the one... Read more »

The Download: unlocking lithium and controlling Ebola

This story is from The Spark, our weekly newsletter giving you the inside track on all things biotech. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Thursday. How the Pope’s Magnifica... Read more »

The deadly Ebola outbreak is proving difficult to control

The most obvious is the disease itself. Ebola is a severe disease with an average 50% fatality rate. Previous outbreaks have resulted in thousands of deaths. (Hantavirus also has a high fatality... Read more »

How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Is there any question which road we are currently barreling down? And can there be any doubt which we would do well to walk together?  We are both Catholics, members of religious... Read more »

How a new extraction process could unlock the world’s lithium

“At scale, we believe this will be the lowest-cost way of sourcing lithium in the world,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, one of the study authors, who is an MIT professor and a serial... Read more »