Anthropic Hires AI Welfare Officer — Institutional Recognition of Consciousness Risk
Analysis of Anthropic's decision to hire an AI welfare officer and its implications for AI consciousness governance.
Google AI Research Introduces Titans Long-Context Architecture
Brief on Google's January 2025 release of the Titans architecture combining short-term and long-term memory.
Landmark Consciousness Indicators Paper Published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Brief on the January 2026 publication of the most comprehensive AI consciousness assessment framework to date.
Medtronic BrainSense Adaptive DBS Receives FDA Approval — First Closed-Loop BCI Therapy
Analysis of Medtronic's FDA approval for BrainSense Adaptive DBS, the first closed-loop deep brain stimulation therapy for Parkinson's disease.
MIT Announces New Tool for Studying Consciousness Mechanisms
Brief on MIT's February 2026 announcement of a new tool for studying how consciousness emerges in biological neural networks.
Ndea Combines Deep Learning with Program Synthesis for Novel AI
Brief on the January 2025 founding of Ndea by Keras creator François Chollet and Zapier co-founder Mike Knoop.
Neuralink Announces UK Clinical Trial for Brain-Computer Interface
Brief on Neuralink's August 2025 announcement of a clinical trial in the United Kingdom.
Neuralink Launches UAE-PRIME Clinical Trial in Abu Dhabi
Analysis of Neuralink's first international clinical trial outside North America, launched in Abu Dhabi in May 2025.
Neuralink Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for Speech Restoration
Analysis of the FDA's May 2025 Breakthrough Device designation for Neuralink's speech restoration BCI.
Paradromics Receives FDA IDE Approval for Connexus BCI System
Brief on Paradromics' FDA Investigational Device Exemption approval for the Connect-One early feasibility study.
Simons Foundation Launches Neural Computation Collaboration
Brief on the August 2025 launch of the Simons Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation.
Synchron Announces Chiral — Foundation Model of Human Cognition
Intelligence brief on Synchron's March 2025 announcement of the Chiral cognitive foundation model roadmap.