This $35,000 computer made of living human neurons can run Doom

The CL1 is the first commercial system from the same researchers who wowed the tech world in 2022 by teaching a cluster of ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...
SiliconANGLE

Anthropic and Databricks raise billions more. Next stop: IPOs?

Investors are still looking askance at both software-as-a-service and traditional companies that might get disintermediated by AI as well as the AI companies and cloud providers that are spending all ...
Datacenter Dynamics

The Biological Computing Co. raises $25m to support launch of world’s first biological computing platform

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) has raised a $25 million seed round that coincides with its launch of the world’s first biological computing platform for computer vision and generative AI. The ...
Forbes

This Startup Is Boosting AI With Real Brain Cells

Alex Knapp is a Forbes senior editor covering healthcare and science. That’s not sci-fi doomsaying, just literal reality. Training models requires enormous amounts of computational power and ...
Yahoo Finance

The Biological Computing Co. (TBC) Secures $25 Million Seed Round, First to Deploy Neuron-Based Alternative to Silicon AI

Funding accelerates deployment of biological computing systems as co-founders open flagship San Francisco lab SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Biological Computing Co. (TBC), the ...
AOL

Two neurosurgeons just raised $25 million betting brain cells can (someday) outcompute silicon

Alex Ksendzovsky and Jon Pomeraniec were in a Washington, D.C. Airbnb, but they weren’t on vacation. They were feeding stock market data into a dish of living brain cells. It was 2021, and the two ...
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Nano-biological computing as a quantum alternative

The curious minds at ColdFusion examine whether nano-bio computers could outperform quantum tech Man shot, killed by Secret Service outside of Mar-a-Lago, officials say EU says US must honor a trade ...
Business Wire

Reply and the University of Milan Launch Experimental Research on Biological Computing Based on Cortical Labs’ CL1 Platform

TURIN, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] today announced the start of a collaboration with the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation of the University of Milan, together with ...
Rutland Herald

Reply and the University of Milan Launch Experimental Research on Biological Computing Based on Cortical Labs’ CL1 Platform

Reply [EXM, STAR: REY] today announced the start of a collaboration with the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation of the University of Milan, together with the “ Centro Dino Ferrari ” of ...
New Scientist

How to finally get a grasp on quantum computing

Quantum computing seems to pop up in the news pretty often these days. You’ve probably seen quantum chips gracing your feeds and their odd, steampunk-ish cooling systems in the pages of magazines and ...