Brain Mapping, Walk Switch, Anduril x OpenAI, GenCast, Nuclear Meta, Isaacman
Summary
Optimism among the investment community appears to be increasing, with a clutch of positive news stories around innovative technologies that could provide major breakthroughs in healthcare, energy and environmental efficiency, and space exploration, among other areas.
Investments in AI by metaverse companies and and cyber security firms are generating significant breakthroughs, while advances in brain-scanning technologies could provide huge steps forward in our understanding of the human brain and the potential for repairing spinal cord injuries, according to reports in Bloomberg and Nature.
Meanwhile, pressure to reduce our carbon footprint has led Google, Amazon and Meta to announce plans to develop nuclear energy facilities to power their data centres, while the prospect of a nuclear renaissance prompted Microsoft to enter the uranium market.
Space exploration also received a boost this week with the announcement that tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, who led the first privately funded space mission, has been nominated to be the next chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
