This week on the Core Memory pod we fix American Science and advance civilization My chat with the founders of Convergent Research corememory.com/p/fixing-ameri…

I'm surprised not one person is willing to publicly advocate for the need to overcome bandwidth limitations on human-AI interaction. Because I know many people talk about it in private. (Maybe this is just something founders say to help with fundraising but don't really believe?)

RFI: How can brain science shape frontier-scale AGI? The Amaranth Foundation wants your 2-page ideas on how brain science can guide & govern frontier-scale AGI—incl. short-timeline (2025-2028) scenarios. Send ≤2-page ideas by 29 Aug.

A very well capitalized US biotech CEO told me yesterday: "Our investors are telling us to do everything in China now. Something that used to take 4 years and cost $100M in the US can now be done in 2 years for $20M by Chinese partners."

How to make frontier AI models safer and accelerate drug discovery with the connectome. We are featured in this IFP article by Adam Marblestone & Andrew Payne

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we scale neurotech. Current approaches (e.g. DBS for PD) aren’t meeting the need. Emerging ones may fare even worse. That’s why I’m scoping an ARIA programme to develop neurotech built for scale. Check out my post +share feedback!👇

EVs, solar panels, and now, brain-computer interfaces. In a new policy document, China has signaled its ambition to become a world leader in the same technology that Elon Musk's Neuralink is building. For WIRED: wired.com/story/china-is…