A hot minute after the world started talking about GPU-powered neural networks, the conversation's quickly changed to neural networks powered by actual neurons. You can now order a literal ...

Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom ...

In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world’s first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March, ...

A biological computer using human neurons learns Doom within 1 week, highlighting rapid adaptive learning and potential ...

While generative AI is buzzy right now, what OpenAI, Microsoft and Google are doing may be only part of the story. There is also the process of using biology: the idea of using stem cells to create ...

For the first time, a lab-grown brain-computer system has demonstrated that human neurons living and evolving in an artificial system respond to medication by learning, in real time, in a game-like ...

As the use of artificial intelligence (AI) surges, securing power has emerged as a critical challenge. Amid this, a novel attempt to build a "biological data center" using human brain cells has ...

CL1 is the world's first commercially available biocomputer, announced by Cortical Labs in 2025. It connects cultured human brain neurons to a silicon chip and can perform calculations using neural ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I analyze the recently announced ...