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(via 29.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES July 13-19, 2026 1. BrainCo Unveils a Brain-to-Robot Platform at WAIC, Letting You Grab a Cup by Thinking About It 2. AI Brain Implant Restores a Paralysed Man’s Movement, and the Gains Have Lasted Years 3. Ukraine Launched a First-of-Its-Kind Fully Robotic Amphibious Assault 4. Astronomers Horrified as FCC Clears Launch of a Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Onto Earth at Night 5. Brutal Humanoid Robot Cage Match Stops Abruptly When One of the Robot’s Heads Pops Off

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(via 28.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES July 6-12, 2026 1. UC San Diego Surgeons Used Two Teleoperated Humanoid Robots to Remove Gallbladders From Live Pigs in a World First 2. Auxilium Bioprinted Kidney and Liver Tissue Aboard the ISS, a First for Either Organ in Orbit 3. China Recovered a Rocket Booster for the First Time, Catching a Long March-10B in a Net at Sea 4. Zenno Astronautics Tested a Thruster That Uses Superconducting Magnets and Earth’s Field Instead of Fuel 5. AI Studio Particle 6 Is Giving Its Divisive AI “Actor” Tilly Norwood a Feature Film Called Misaligned

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These Are The Innovations That Will Dominate Your Life In 2050

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We’re at a historical inflection point. The technologies being built today will reshape how we work, learn, communicate, govern, heal, create, and explore. As artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, clean energy, autonomous systems, and other breakthroughs converge, they’ll create possibilities previous generations could barely imagine.

Our kids will inherit a drastically different planet. Not because of hype or speculation. Because the future is already unfolding in real time, and the decisions being made this week will compound into the world they grow up in.

But the outcome isn’t predetermined.

The same technologies that could help solve humanity’s greatest challenges could also create new risks, inequalities, and unintended consequences. The future will be shaped not only by the people building these technologies, but by the people funding them, regulating them, teaching them, investing in them, and deciding how they’re used.

That’s why we created The Brigade.

To help you see the signals before they become obvious. To connect the dots between breakthroughs that others treat as isolated events. To understand not just what’s happening, but why it matters and where it may lead.

Because the future isn’t something that happens to us.

It’s something we build together.

And the people shaping the future deserve to see it clearly.

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THE TOP 5 STORIES June 29 - July 5, 2026 1. Tesla Puts a Production Cybercab With No Steering Wheel or Pedals on Austin Public Roads for the First Time 2. Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Return After an 18-Day US Export Ban, the Same Week Anthropic Launches Claude Science and Claude Sonnet 5 3. NHS App Adds AI Triage to Steer Patients to the Right Care, Part of a £10 Billion Tech Overhaul 4. Meta’s Brain2Qwerty v2 Decodes Typed Sentences From Brain Activity at 61% Word Accuracy, No Surgery Required 5. As a Deadly Heatwave Grips Europe, Rome Leans on a €400 Million Bracelet Scheme to Watch Over 700 of Its Elderly

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(via 26.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES June 22-28, 2026 1. Five Eyes Alliance Warns Frontier AI Cyber Threats Are Months Away 2. Trump Signs Quantum Computing Executive Orders, $2B in Grants With Government Equity Stakes 3. IBM Announces First Sub-1nm Chip Using 3D Nanostack Architecture, Extends Moore’s Law Another Decade 4. Meta Launches Own-Brand Smart Glasses at $299, Undercuts Ray-Ban Meta While Adding Kylie Jenner Variant 5. OpenAI Unveils First Custom AI Chip Designed for Inference With Broadcom, Targeting 10GW Compute by 2029

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(via 25.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES June 15-21, 2026 1. After a Decade of Development, Snap Unveils “Specs,” a $2,195 AR Computer You Wear on Your Face 2. SpaceX Closes $60 Billion Cursor Acquisition Days After Record IPO, Pivoting AI Strategy 3. G7 Leaders Fear the US Could Cut Off Access to Advanced AI Overnight, France and India Push Back Against America's Growing Control of Global AI 4. NASA Picks Eric Schmidt’s Relativity Space for Mars Mission, Challenging SpaceX’s Dominance in Red Planet Plans 5. The AI Image Company Behind Midjourney Unveils a 60-Second Full-Body Scanner and Plans to Open Health Spas

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(via 24.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES June 8-14, 2026 1. SpaceX Raises $75 Billion in the Largest IPO in History, Making Elon Musk the World’s First Trillionaire 2. Anthropic Launches Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Then the US Government Forces Them Offline 3. China Approves the World’s First Commercial Brain Implant, Beating Neuralink to Market 4. Spanish Soccer Club Places Multimillion-Dollar Kalshi Bet Against Its Own Relegation as Financial Hedge 5. Humanoid Robot Pemba Summits 20,000-Foot Volcano Chimborazo, Sets Altitude Record for Bipedal Robots on Its Way to Everest

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(via 23.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES June 1-7, 2026 1. Anthropic’s Engineers Haven’t Written A Line Of Code In Five Months. The Company Says That's Exactly Why the World Needs a Pause On Frontier AI Development. 2. Microsoft Unveils Majorana 2 Quantum Chip: 1,000x More Reliable, 2029 Target for Scalable Quantum 3. Xcimer Energy Powers On “Phoenix,” the World’s Largest Privately Owned Laser, in Bid to Commercialize Fusion 4. Boston Dynamics Spot Dogs Are Patrolling 2026 FIFA World Cup Venues 5. Martin Scorsese Signs With AI Startup Black Forest Labs, Uses Its Image Generator to Storyboard New DiCaprio Film

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(via 12.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) March 16-22, 2026 The Top 5 Stories 1. Disney’s Olaf Robot Stole the Show at Nvidia GTC Ahead Of His Debut at Disneyland Paris on March 29th 2. Scientists Revive Brain Activity in Frozen Mouse Tissue for the First Time, Raising Hopes for Cryopreservation 3. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider Discovers Its 80th Particle 4. Haidilao’s Dancing Robot Trashes a Table, Gets Manhandled by Three Staff Members, Then Goes Back to Work 5. Shenzhou-21 Astronauts Harvests Cherry Tomatoes From China’s Tiangong Space Station Plus, this week only: the paid subscriber stories are free for everyone!

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(via 11.26 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown) THE TOP 5 STORIES March 9-15, 2026 1. Flying Cars Are FINALLY Here. Electric Air Taxis Are About to Take Off in 26 States 2. Meta Buys Moltbook, the AI Agent Social Network That Went Viral for the Wrong Reasons 3. Microsoft and Amazon Both Launch Health AI Products in the Same Week 4. Elon Musk Admits xAI “Was Not Built Right” and Orders Sweeping Layoffs 5. Uber Co-Founder Travis Kalanick Surfaces With Atoms, an Industrial Robotics Company That’s Been in Stealth for Eight Years

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002 Weekly TrendDown The most insane tech stories from December 11 - 17, 2023. (via 002 Weekly TrendDown - by The Brigade - TrendDown)

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Dark matter makes up about 85 percent of the total matter in the universe, which is more than five times as much as all ordinary matter. We believe that it played an important role in the formation of galaxies, although it has never been directly observed - since it doesn't seem to interact with other matter or reflect/absorb light. So we have no idea what it is.

(via The largest underground lab in the world is studying dark matter - YouTube)

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UFC Ready Robot Fights a Human

Florida-based IHMC Robotics teamed up with Boardwalk Robotics to build Nadia. Thankfully this isn’t an autonomous AI robot, for now at least. The robot (Nadi...

Florida-based IHMC Robotics teamed up with Boardwalk Robotics to build Nadia. Thankfully this isn’t an autonomous AI robot, for now at least. The robot (Nadia), IHMC Robotics, and Boardwalk Robotics are not actually affiliated with the UFC. That was just a joke. Although we’d pay to see a couple robots throw down.

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Elon Musk's Neuralink has successfully merged a computer with a human brain - patient is recovering

Neuralink has started human clinical trials for their Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) device called N1. The company just secured another $43 million in fundin...

Neuralink has started human clinical trials for their Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) device called N1. The company just secured another $43 million in funding, bringing their total capital raised to more than $320 million. The PRIME Study (short for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface) is for patients that have limited or no ability to use both hands due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Neuralink says it plans to perform 11 surgeries in 2024, 27 in 2025, 79 in 2026 and more than 22,000 by 2030. Once approved by the FDA, each implant surgery is expected to cost around $40,000 including exams, the device and labor. The company forecasts annual revenue as high as $100 million within five years (2028). In the short-term Neuralink is aiming to treat serious brain diseases, but the eventual goal is to provide human enhancement and achieve "symbiosis with artificial intelligence.” 😳

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The Last Beatles Song

John Lennon tragically passed away in 1980, but the Beatles released their final song in November 2023 with the help of AI.#shorts