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Supercomputer brains, AI's expensive flop, and a church on the move

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Happy Tuesday! Today's stories: Stanford scientists have created a thought-decoding brain implant that requires users to think a password (one participant chose "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang"), while a sobering MIT study finds 95% of corporate AI projects are generating zero returns despite billions invested. Meanwhile in Sweden, engineers are slowly inching…

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