Author: Marisa Taylor
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Exclusive-Musk’s Neuralink valued at about $5 billion despite long road to market
By Rachael Levy, Krystal Hu and Marisa Taylor (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, which was valued at close to $2 billion in a private fundraising round two years ago, is now worth around $5 billion based on privately executed stock trades described to Reuters by five sources with knowledge of the matter.…
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Musk’s brain implant company in search of human trials partner
By Marisa Taylor and Rachael Levy (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has approached one of the biggest U.S. neurosurgery centers as a potential clinical trials partner as it prepares to test its devices on humans once regulators allow for it, according to six people familiar with the matter. Neuralink has been developing…
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Military rape law appears to defy logic, constitution
WASHINGTON • Six years ago, Congress tried cracking down on rape in the military. Prompted by reports of sexual assaults in military academies and war zones, lawmakers rewrote the rules. They wanted to protect victims and help prosecutors. Now it’s clear that the effort backfired. The politically attractive but poorly understood legal changes have incited…
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Assessing CIA culpability in detainee deaths will be tricky
WASHINGTON — By all accounts, the interrogation of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush went terribly wrong.Military guards accused his interrogators of beating the detainee and stuffing his body into a sleeping bag bound with electrical cord until he suffocated.When it came time for a CIA employee to testify during the court-martial of Army Chief…