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China approves the market launch of an invasive BCI system that helps restore hand movement, the world's first approval of such a device for commercial use  —  China's drug regulator said on Friday that it has given the nod for a brain-computer interface (BCI) system that helps restore hand-movement ability …

A coalition of more than 50 advocacy organizations is urging New York lawmakers to scrutinize the state’s prison system, pressing for answers about alleged brutality, deaths behind bars and violations of solitary confinement reforms as the legislature weighs more than $4 billion in funding. The push for reforms comes amid renewed scrutiny of the correctional […]

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More than 400 nurses at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, where officials warned of a dire financial hole, have been cut off from health insurance coverage for six weeks, according to their union. Gov. Kathy Hochul provided $15 million in emergency state aid recently to the financially strapped 181-year-old community hospital that borders Fort Greene Park, […]

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The Berlin startup, founded by two ex-Snowflake engineers, wants to be the platform where AI-generated data pipelines go to actually work. The hard part of building with AI is no longer getting the code. It is getting the code to run. That gap,  between what an AI coding assistant can produce in minutes and what […]

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Alex Karp says AI disrupts the economic power of “humanities-trained, largely Democratic voters” and strengthens that of “working-class, often male voters”  —  In a new interview, Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicted who will be hit hardest by shifts in technology ... and it wasn't the typical MAGA base.