The Flynn Effect Has Slowed and in Some Places Reversed
The Flynn Effect is the long-run rise in average scores on standardized cognitive tests over the 20th century, and the…
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383 Grams, 50N, and ROS 2: Revo2 Bionic Hand
BrainCo has launched its revo2 bionic hand for humanoid robotics, positioning it as a developer-ready end effector rather than just…
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10^7-Dimensional LLM Memory, but Only If it Stays Sparse
A BDH seminar summary circulating in recent technical discussion frames LLM memory as a tradeoff between the familiar transformer KV…
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115 Patients, 2 Psychedelics: Psychedelic Therapy Depression
A Swiss university hospital’s new psychedelic therapy depression study reported that routine-care patients treated with LSD- or psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy between…
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Focused Ultrasound Turns Smell-In-VR Into a Brain Problem
A small research team says focused ultrasound can make people perceive smells without releasing any chemicals at all. If that…
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Neuralink ALS Speech: Useful Milestone, Not a Cure Yet
Brad Smith sits in front of a monitor, perfectly still, while the cursor skates across the screen as if pulled…
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Automated Labeling Bias Is Hiding Medical AI Harms
A junior radiologist is on call, scrolling through breast MRI slices at midnight. On the second monitor, a segmentation mask,…
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mRNA Cancer Vaccines: Why 2026 Readouts Matter for Oncology
A 49% lower risk of melanoma coming back after surgery sounds like hype copy, but it’s a real number from…
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Neurons Play Doom: The Ethical Problem Labs Can’t Ignore
Two hundred thousand lab‑grown human neurons sit on a microelectrode array in Melbourne, wired into a PyTorch RL agent. A…
