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IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER:

– Nvidia announces plans to make AI supercomputers in US for first time

– Smarter dairy farms where robots milk the cows

– 4-legged hydrogen-powered robot you can actually ride

MADE IN AMERICA: Nvidia on Monday announced plans to manufacture its artificial intelligence supercomputers entirely in the U.S. for the first time.

ROBOT MILKS COWS: These robots aren’t just doing the heavy lifting; they’re creating a stress-free, comfortable environment for the cows while keeping things efficient and sustainable.

Hydrogen-powered, four-legged robot concept (Kawasaki Heavy Industries) (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

RIDEABLE 4-LEGGED ROOT: Kawasaki Heavy Industries has introduced something that feels straight out of a video game: CORLEO, a hydrogen-powered, four-legged robot prototype designed to be ridden by humans.

JOB-KILLER ROBOT: This semi-humanoid robot combines advanced manipulation capabilities with intelligent delivery features, making it a significant innovation in the service robotics sector. Unlike traditional robots, the FlashBot Arm is designed to interact with its environment in a more human-like way.

FlashBot Arm in a hotel  (Pudu Robotics)

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When the Breakthrough Prize, founded by Facebook, Apple, and Google moguls and sometimes called “the Oscars of Science” by people who want that to be true, invited a comedian to present one of its awards it probably should have expected a few jokes. Remarks made by Seth Rogen during the April 5th livestream about the high-profile tech titans supporting Trump may have ruffled a few feathers, however, and have been scrubbed from the “full video” upload of the ceremony.

“It’s amazing that others in this room underwrote electing a man who, in the last week, single-handedly destroyed all of American science,” Rogen said according to The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s amazing how much good science you can destroy with $320 million and RFK Jr., very fast.”

Rogen’s remarks received only light applause from the room, and came directly after co-presenter Edward Norton paid thanks to Silicon Valley audience members for underwriting the ceremony. Each prize is $3 million, handed out in different fields for life sciences, mathematics, and fundamental physics.

“This year’s ceremony lasted longer than the prior few years, and several edits were made in order to meet the originally planned run time,” the Breakthrough Prize told The Hollywood Reporter. As the ceremony wasn’t televised, it’s unclear what scheduling requirements the Breakthrough Prize needed to adhere to on YouTube.

Researchers in California have achieved a significant breakthrough with an AI-powered system that restores natural speech to paralyzed individuals in real time, using their own voices, specifically demonstrated in a clinical trial participant who is severely paralyzed and cannot speak. 

This innovative technology, developed by teams at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco, combines brain-computer interfaces (BCI) with advanced artificial intelligence to decode neural activity into audible speech. 

Compared to other recent attempts to create speech from brain signals, this new system is a major advancement.

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How it works

The system uses devices such as high-density electrode arrays that record neural activity directly from the brain’s surface. It also works with microelectrodes that penetrate the brain’s surface and non-invasive surface electromyography sensors placed on the face to measure muscle activity. These devices tap into the brain to measure neural activity, which the AI then learns to transform into the sounds of the patient’s voice. 

The neuroprosthesis samples neural data from the brain’s motor cortex, the area controlling speech production, and AI decodes that data into speech. According to study co-lead author Cheol Jun Cho, the neuroprosthesis intercepts signals where the thought is translated into articulation and, in the middle of that, motor control.

AI-powered system (Kaylo Littlejohn, Cheol Jun Cho, et al. Nature Neuroscience 2025)

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Key advancements

• Real-time speech synthesis: The AI-based model streams intelligible speech from the brain in near-real time, addressing the challenge of latency in speech neuroprostheses. This “streaming approach brings the same rapid speech decoding capacity of devices like Alexa and Siri to neuroprostheses,” according to Gopala Anumanchipalli, co-principal investigator of the study. The model decodes neural data in 80-ms increments, enabling uninterrupted use of the decoder, further increasing speed.
• Naturalistic speech: The technology aims to restore naturalistic speech, allowing for more fluent and expressive communication.
• Personalized voice: The AI is trained using the patient’s own voice before their injury, generating audio that sounds like them. In cases where patients have no residual vocalization, the researchers utilize a pre-trained text-to-speech model and the patient’s pre-injury voice to fill in the missing details.
• Speed and accuracy: The system can begin decoding brain signals and outputting speech within a second of the patient attempting to speak, a significant improvement from the eight-second delay in a previous study from 2023.

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AI-powered system (Kaylo Littlejohn, Cheol Jun Cho, et al. Nature Neuroscience 2025)

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Overcoming challenges

One of the key challenges was mapping neural data to speech output when the patient had no residual vocalization. The researchers overcame this by using a pre-trained text-to-speech model and the patient’s pre-injury voice to fill in the missing details.

AI-powered system (Kaylo Littlejohn, Cheol Jun Cho, et al. Nature Neuroscience 2025)

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Impact and future directions

This technology has the potential to significantly improve the quality of life for people with paralysis and conditions like ALS. It allows them to communicate their needs, express complex thoughts and connect with loved ones more naturally.

“It is exciting that the latest AI advances are greatly accelerating BCIs for practical real-world use in the near future,” UCSF neurosurgeon Edward Chang said.

The next steps include speeding up the AI’s processing, making the output voice more expressive and exploring ways to incorporate tone, pitch and loudness variations into the synthesized speech. Researchers also aim to decode paralinguistic features from brain activity to reflect changes in tone, pitch and loudness.

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Kurt’s key takeaways

What’s truly amazing about this AI is that it doesn’t just translate brain signals into any kind of speech. It’s aiming for natural speech, using the patient’s own voice. It’s like giving them their voice back, which is a game changer. It gives new hope for effective communication and renewed connections for many individuals.

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