The Archive

Blindsight human trials are in the window

Elon Musk said on 24 August 2026 that Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. FDA Breakthrough designation is 17 September 2024. There are still zero human Blindsight implants on the public record.

VOICE is the speech trial

Neuralink’s VOICE study (NCT07224256) is recruiting at UT Southwestern. Enrollment is listed as six. Start 3 October 2025, primary completion October 2028. The speech stack is a different product from Telepathy’s cursor.

One Nation takes Secret Harbour

Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.

Twenty-one Neuralnauts

Neuralink says 21 people are now in human trials worldwide. The company’s own Telepathy post puts numbers on bits per second, hours a day, and a safety line of zero serious device-related events.

Apple opens Core AI so apps load a model like a font

WWDC, 8 June. The inference stack behind Apple Intelligence is now a Swift API, a .aimodel file, and a public Qwen, Mistral, and SAM 3 repository.

Apple’s bigger on-device model needs 12 GB and an iPhone 17 Pro

WWDC, 8 June. Expressive Siri and advanced dictation stay on the 12 GB phones. The base iPhone 17, at 8 GB, does not get them.

Brookshire starts Megapack 3

On 6 August Tesla’s Megapack account said Megapack 3 is rolling at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Designed capacity is 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.

Day one ended the LNG export pause

On 20 January 2025 President Trump signed E.O. 14154. The Energy Department, the same day, ended the Biden-era pause on non-FTA LNG export applications. Commonwealth LNG in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, got the first post-pause license on 14 February 2025.

Hanson took the energy package to the Press Club on 17 June

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address on 17 June put One Nation’s energy plank on a national stage: keep dispatchable plant, treat gas as a strategic asset, stop treating a new gas appliance as a moral problem. Polls that week still had the party at 28–29 percent.

Lenovo ships SteamOS on the Legion Go 2

22.4 cm 144 Hz OLED, Ryzen Z2 Extreme, up to 32 GB. From US$1,199. The Windows box from October now boots Valve's OS.

NASA slipped Crew-13 after a Dragon oxidizer leak

On 29 August NASA said it is adjusting the Crew-13 launch date to address an oxidizer leak on Dragon’s propulsion system, found in standard prelaunch processing. No new date yet. The crew remains Watkins, Delaney, Kutryk, and Teteryatnikov.