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“When nature has a problem to solve, it makes a protein. And we should be inspired by this.”
@ScienceCorp_ co-founder @maxhodak_ explains how amino acid language models help his team engineer opsins, the light-sensitive proteins used in optogenetics.
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“More than 5 million people around the world have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called geographic atrophy, in which cells in the retinas die off." technologyreview.com/2026/10…
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#Neurotech & #Robotics: Smart Grip, Human Touch🦾🧠
I just published about the convergence of smart hands, neural interfaces, training decoders, licensing data, and even biocompute.
Who are the top experts, founders, investors to connect with here?
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The PL BCI Roadmap Series explores the future of brain-computer interfaces and the technical, clinical, and commercial bottlenecks ahead.
👉 bit.ly/4i8q09E
Contributing authors: @DavidAMarkowitz, @juanbenet, @JacquesCarolan, @elidourado, Thomas Khalil, Amy Kruse, @AdamMarblestone, @patrickmineault, @JoanneZPeng, @joshuarosenowMD, @SeanEscola
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Why We Systems Neuroscientists Should (Usually) Be Quietists: The Philosophical Logic of NeuroAI -- response to David Barack kording.substack.com/p/why-w…
Important research needs the right support.
@protocollabs_rd coordinates funding, infrastructure, and talent to accelerate computing breakthroughs.
@momack28 and Lukas Bresser outline the operating model behind this work. 👇
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Today is probably a good time to check in on things with @privy_io, which became part of @stripe just over a year ago.
Our acquisition was predicated on three factors: stablecoin growth, self-custody as a key enabler of broader global coverage, and rapidly increasing demand for programmable financial infrastructure. As we said at the time, "money has to reside somewhere, and Privy builds the world's best programmable vaults."
Since then, the Privy team has executed exceptionally well: assets in Privy wallets have grown ~25x, monthly active developers are up ~3x, revenue is up ~9x, and Privy now facilitates nearly $25B of monthly transaction volume. @tryramp, @Deel, @Klarna, @felixpago, @HyperliquidX, and thousands of other businesses are building embedded banking functionality on Privy.
At Stripe, we're deeply integrating Privy into Treasury, @Link, and Connect. In each case, it's accelerating our global expansion, and enabling us to build better functionality faster. (Coming soon: @Link balances.)
We're also seeing that Privy's wallet infrastructure is the ideal substrate for agents to transact and earn -- live today with @merit_systems, @orthogonal_sh, @Nevermined_ai, @prlnet, and more. Developers prefer programmable financial infrastructure, but agents need it. We expect that the agentic economy will continue to grow extremely quickly.
The Privy team has maintained remarkable product velocity, with major launches this year including deposit addresses, earning on Privy balances, digital asset accounts, custodial wallets, and Stripe's own stablecoin cards.
It's also been neat to see how Privy has been accelerated by Stripe, with better onramps, @stablecoin payment rails and licenses, Stripe's fiat capabilities and issuing stack, and integration with @Tempo.
Together, we're building one API for holding stablecoin balances and earning yield, moving money in and out of fiat, and orchestrating spend with cards. We still have a lot of work to do, not least in integrating everything across Privy, Bridge, and the rest of Stripe -- there's been so much feature and functionality expansion that we haven't yet had much time to reconcile everything. Overall, though, I'm very happy with how things are going, and excited by where these capabilities are headed.
If you're interested in working on the future of stablecoins, agentic payments, and crypto's deployment in the real world, you should get in touch with @sternhenri (now leading all of @StripeCrypto) or others on the team.
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Words to live by: "The best part is no part"
One mistake @maxhodak_ sees smart engineers make: optimizing something that shouldn’t exist. The @ScienceCorp_ co-founder argues that better engineering often means less code, fewer parts, and a simpler, more reliable system.
A significant milestone for @ScienceCorp_. PRIMA's recognition by @TIME marks a turning point for BCIs restoring central vision.
Geographic atrophy affects millions, and commercial approval in Europe opens the door for broader deployment.
PRIMA is one of @TIME's Best Inventions of 2026.
As the first brain-computer interface approved for commercial use in Europe for the restoration of central vision, PRIMA has given clinical trial patients with geographic atrophy the ability to read letters, numbers, and words again.
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Zama has officially passed more than $100M shielded on @Morpho with their confidential vaults
@plcapital has supported @zama since we led their Series A & we know there is so much more to come 📈
MILESTONE:
$100M+ is now earning yield on @Morpho using confidential tokens.
The same curators and strategies institutional capital already uses. Positions and earnings stay encrypted onchain.
Deposit and earn at app.zama.org/earn
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What would it take to fund ambitious science beyond the lab or startup? This autumn, we’re bringing people across the UK together to explore new models, including Focused Research Organizations (FROs). No prior knowledge needed. Join us, and bring a curious friend.
Happy 6th anniversary, @Filecoin!
Filecoin hit mainnet 6 years ago today - & what a ride so far! We're still just getting started, moving faster than ever. 🚀
Massive work has gone into revenue & demand upgrades so far this year:
- @FilFoundation built fil.one, performant, managed S3 storage on Filecoin
- @_FilOz built filecoin.io/products/warm-st…, filecoin.io/products/ipfs & filecoin.io/products/agents - upgrading Filecoin's storage services for the AI era
- #FIDL built filecoin.io/products/archiva… for automated storage of large archives & datasets
- @IntegralSpaceTm launched to turn the next set of data-rich businesses into Filecoin customers
- @_FilOz @FilFoundation & many others collaborated to sunset FIL+ and bring a revenue-based subnet economy to Filecoin, closing the economic flywheel
Beyond proud of this ecosystem - showing up every day and getting the work done, never wavering from the mission to create a decentralized, efficient, and robust foundation for humanity’s information.
A notable launch from @Compute_Labs with its new Financing Platform, designed to streamline financing for GPU infrastructure.
Introducing the Compute Labs Financing Platform.
Financing your GPU cluster shouldn't feel impossible. Capital is ready, but most neocloud operators with customer demand have no capital markets team to turn it into a deal funders can confidently evaluate.
Our platform turns a neocloud's deal documents into a standardized package, with every figure verified by its source.
Neoclouds receive support from intake to close and beyond. Funders get deals they can evaluate with confidence.
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Congratulations to @PrecisionNeuro_ on this next chapter and the expansion of its leadership team!
Precision Neuroscience is strengthening its leadership team with two exciting additions!
Konstantinos Alataris, Ph.D., founder and former CEO of Nevro, joins as president, and Katherine Neuenfeldt joins as senior vice president of commercial strategies, bringing deep expertise in commercialization and market access.
Learn more about Konstantinos, Katherine, and the next chapter for Precision here: globenewswire.com/news-relea…
PL network team @bluesky is focused on sustainable monetization, user privacy, and data portability as part of its vision for open social.
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.@ScienceCorp_ co-founder @maxhodak_ on thinking for yourself in the age of AI.
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One mistake @maxhodak_ sees smart engineers make: optimizing something that shouldn’t exist. The @ScienceCorp_ co-founder argues that better engineering often means less code, fewer parts, and a simpler, more reliable system.
From model development to making coffee autonomously.
@bageldotcom's latest robotics demo showcases its work on longer-horizon tasks using a lightweight foundation model architecture.
This fully autonomous demo shows a Bagel Labs foundation model controlling a robot to make coffee.
We previously released WorldDiT, our lightweight architecture for robot foundation models. At the time of release, it was on the Pareto frontier for model size and performance. We have since been refining this architecture to handle longer
horizon, more useful tasks fully autonomously.
Making coffee means getting a whole sequence of actions right. Each step depends on the result of the last, so small mistakes can build up as the task continues. Getting this to work with a small model is especially challenging. This demo is an example of what the model can do today.
If you are deploying robots or have existing hardware you want to make autonomous, we would like to partner with you. bagel.com/partner




























