🧠 A brain interface as thin as a hair — crypto dreams unlocked
Researchers from Columbia and Stanford built BISC, a 50-micron-thick brain interface that sits on the cortex with 65,536 electrodes and 100 Mbps wireless data transfer — far beyond anything existing today.
Now the crypto angle: this is a straight path to brain-to-wallet tech. Thought → intent → transaction signature. No seed phrases. No hardware wallets. No phishing. Just local neural signals decoded by AI.
Today it’s science and medicine. Tomorrow? Self-custody at the neural level. Your private keys — literally in your head.

⚡️ Another Avengers: Doomsday teaser drops
Marvel released the fourth teaser for Avengers: Doomsday, continuing the slow-burn hype. This time we spotted Shuri (Black Panther) and The Thing from Fantastic Four — crossover energy is real.
Still no plot details, just vibes and scale. Release date: December 18.

🍎 Apple is rebooting Siri — with Google’s help
Apple plans to unveil a new Siri by late February, powered by Google Gemini models running on Apple Private Cloud. Yes — Apple + Google, officially.
The upgrade jumps from 150B to ~1.2T parameters, marking Apple’s biggest AI leap yet. It’s also the first real demo of features promised back at WWDC 2024 — almost two years late.
iOS 26.4 beta is expected in March. Siri might finally stop being a joke.

💸 The most expensive Mercedes ever bought
Jensen Huang shared a brutal investing story. After Nvidia’s 1999 IPO, he sold 11,250 shares to buy his parents a Mercedes S600 V12 for ~$135K. Stock price back then: $12.
After 7 stock splits, those shares would now be worth $1+ billion. For context: the world’s most expensive new car costs $32M.
“This is the most expensive car ever,” Huang joked. The Mercedes is still in the family.

🦖 Yoshi finally joins Mario — in space
Illumination dropped a fresh teaser for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, and Yoshi is finally here. The iconic green dino teams up with Mario for a full-on cosmic adventure.
Theatrical release: April 1. Galaxy-level fun incoming. 🌌

🌦 Nvidia brings AI weather forecasting to the big leagues
Nvidia unveiled Earth-2, an AI platform that predicts weather by learning data patterns instead of simulating physics — often faster and more accurate.
It includes 14-day forecasts, 6-hour nowcasts for storms, and rapid data assimilation. Fully open-source, ready for governments and businesses.
Energy traders, insurers, agriculture, logistics — if weather moves your market, this matters.

🤖 Atlas learned to flip — after crashing first
Boston Dynamics released footage of Atlas nailing a run-up roundoff into a backflip, plus the wipeouts along the way. Real training, real falls.
It’s the final stress test of the research Atlas. The secret sauce is zero-shot transfer: train in simulation, deploy to hardware without tuning. Hence the flips—and the natural gait.
Production Atlas is coming: 56 DoF, tactile hands. Hyundai plans factory deployment by 2028, assembly tasks by 2030.

⏺️ Market update: fear takes over
Bitcoin is hovering around $70K, ETH stays above $2K, while alts bleed. No fresh money — pure selection phase.
📉 Losers: IP –8%, NIGHT –7%, JUP –7% 📈 Gainers: ZRO +15%, STABLE +10%, H +5%
😱 Fear & Greed Index: 10 — extreme fear. When fear peaks, smart money starts watching closely.

💡 A light-based computer solving “impossible” problems
Optimizing a 50-stop delivery route? Brute force would outlive the universe. Even quantum machines struggle.
Researchers built an optical Ising machine that uses pulses of light instead of transistors or qubits. Light on = 1, light off = 0. The pulses interact in a fiber loop and naturally settle into the lowest-energy — optimal — solution.
Built from off-the-shelf lasers and modulators, it handles 256 spins at room temperature. Internet hardware, repurposed for next-gen computing.