In a seismic win for neurotechnology, Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, revealed on May 1, 2025, that its speech restoration implant has clinched the FDA’s Breakthrough Device Designation. This coveted status, announced via a post on X, fast-tracks development for a device poised to restore communication for those with severe speech impairments caused by conditions like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), stroke, spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, and multiple sclerosis. The implant decodes neural signals to enable speech, offering a lifeline to patients who’ve lost their voice. This milestone follows Neuralink’s 2024 breakthrough for its Blindsight vision implant and builds...

In a dramatic turn for the AI industry, Meta's April 2025 release of its Llama 4 models—Scout and Maverick—has been overshadowed by allegations of unethical benchmarking practices. The controversy, erupting just days after the launch, has sparked heated debates across tech communities, casting a shadow over Meta's ambitious push into advanced AI. The saga began with a rumor, first posted on a Chinese social media platform and amplified on X and Reddit, claiming Meta artificially boosted Llama 4’s benchmark scores by training on test sets—a practice widely condemned as cheating in AI research. Further fueling the fire, it emerged that...

Elon Musk’s social media platform X has suspended several opposition accounts in Turkey during widespread protests, raising concerns over digital censorship and the platform’s commitment to free speech. The suspensions, reported this week, coincide with civil unrest triggered by the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, a prominent rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The move has drawn criticism from activists and analysts, who question Musk’s “free speech absolutist” stance. The protests, among the largest in Turkey in over a decade, erupted after İmamoğlu’s arrest ahead of his nomination for the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP). Demonstrators took to the...

NVIDIA’s bombshell announcement to invest $500 billion in U.S.-based AI supercomputer factories, with two Texas plants set to mass-produce by mid-2026, has sent shockwaves through the tech world. Unveiled yesterday, the plan aims to bring AI chip production stateside, dodging Trump’s new 32% tariffs on Taiwan and 145% on China. X is ablaze with #NVIDIAboom, as investors and techies debate whether this will cement NVIDIA’s AI dominance or ignite a global chip war. CEO Jensen Huang called it a “resilience boost” for AI supply chains, partnering with Foxconn and Wistron to churn out Blackwell AI chips already in production at...

In a stunning scientific breakthrough, Colossal Biosciences announced in April 2025 the successful "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a species extinct for over 13,000 years, famed from "Game of Thrones." Using DNA from fossils, including a 13,000-year-old tooth from Ohio and a 72,000-year-old skull from Idaho, the $10 billion biotech firm genetically edited gray wolf cells to create three pups: males Romulus and Remus, born October 1, 2024, and female Khaleesi, born January 30, 2025. Born via surrogate dogs, these wolves are 20% larger than gray wolves, sporting white, thick fur and muscular jaws, and are housed in a secretive...