Intelligent. Eccentric. Witty. And sometimes, all three. That's how the internet describes billionaire playboy (and the supposed real-life incarnation of Iron Man) Elon Musk from time to time. However, the HackerNoon team would like to add adjective to describe the world's (now) second-richest person: neurosurgeon. another Musk might not a neurosurgeon in its strictest sense, but his ambition to solve some of the most pressing challenges of humanity meant that it was only a matter of time before he also entered the world of healthcare. be With PayPal, Musk gave the world a convenient way to conduct transactions over the internet; with , he's making a case to ditch the auto industry's love affair with big oil. Tesla SpaceX aims to provide a cheaper way to go to space (and, ultimately, a pathway to Mars). And with Neuralink, well…we'll let the marketing material do all the talking: Yes. Musk wants to cure paralysis and a range of other brain-related medical conditions with a "chip" that needs to be fit so precisely, that only robots can do it. And that's not all! Neuralink's__ __ says that the company is also designing a smartphone app that will let you "control your keyboard and mouse directly with the activity of your brain, just by thinking about it,"  but only after you allow the company to implant a chip into your brain. As if our smartphones weren't already invasive enough. 🙄 website But more than anything, Neuralink just may represent an attempt by Musk to create the perfect union between engineers and doctors. One problem, though. Those PESKY regulators in the U.S. just won't let Musk have his way. A from Reuters reveals that not only has Neuralink been unable to get the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's seal of approval to begin testing chips in humans, but also Musk's publicly claimed timeline has been off the charts. While Musk first claimed in July 2019 that his company would be ready to begin human trials by the end of 2020, his company didn't actually seek permission from the FDA until early 2022, and that too resulted in a previously unreported rejection, Reuters reports. new report waaaaaaaaaaaaayyyy Now Musk claims that Neuralink will have the FDA's approval in Spring 2023, but if his broken promises are anything to go by, it's unlikely that his company will be able to convince regulators in time for that date period. Lack of regulatory approval is one of the problems plaguing Neuralink. Another is the company's management, which can best be described as.. loosey-goosey. So far, it's unclear who actually runs the company and staffers say that "the working environment [..] while demanding and ambitious, is also loose and disorganized," Reuters reports. Neuralink isn't the only Musk company that's loosey-goosey. Back at HQ (oh yeah, Musk also owns a legacy social media company because he wanted to protect free speech. What a guy), we've received of employees being unable to work because someone shut the internal down, either due to nonpayment or because Musk has turned against the communication tool. We'll never know. But the also points out a list of timelines broken by Musk Twitter, similar to the ones at Neuralink. It's fascinating. Twitter reports Slack same report at Anyway, only one of Musk's companies was trending in this week's : Twitter at the #70 spot. tech company rankings 👋 You’re reading HackerNoon's Tech Company News Brief, a weekly collection of tech goodness that combines HackerNoon's proprietary data with internet trends to determine which companies are rising and falling in the public consciousness. Subscribe to receive the newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday! here Canada Goes on a Moose Hunt, Bans TikTok From Government Phones 🦌 It was only last week that we reported that the European Commission had its employees from using on its devices. barred TikTok Well. Canada has now done the same. Yes, the United States' friendly neighbor and home to over 38 million people have decided that China's TikTok is bad business. Bad enough that it warrants a complete ban from all government-issued devices. Ouch! In addition to Canada and the EU, TikTok is also banned from being used by lawmakers in the U.S. and India. TikTok continues to claim that its app poses no risk to privacy and security, even though experts believe otherwise, and the company tried giving the Canadian ban a political spin by claiming that the ban will "prevent officials from reaching the public on a platform loved by millions of Canadians." Oh well. All Your Developer Are Belong to Us 💻 Remember that time when Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince generative AI — such as ChatGPT, but also others like DALL-E — were good enough to be considered junior programmers in their own right? Well.. looks like he was right because is baking AI into its suite of tools, particularly those that let users develop applications with little or no coding. said Microsoft even more Microsoft has been ever since ChatGPT went mainstream, prompting a $10 billion investment by the Windows maker in OpenAI, the startup that created ChatGPT. (Fun fact: Elon Musk is a co-founder of OpenAI 🤫). on a roll Microsoft ranked #67 this week. In Other News.. 📰 Is Twitter's new CEO? Platformer in a new issue. this asks Tesla prices are going yet investors . 🚗 dooooooown aren't impressed Microsoft's not the only game in town. Here's a of companies trying to keep up with ChatGPT. list The crypto winter just hit Silvergate Capital Corp., signaling to the market that the crypto bank may just be close to . shutting down And that's a wrap! Don't forget to share this newsletter with your family and friends! See y'all next week. PEACE! ☮️ — Sheharyar Khan, Editor, Business Tech @ HackerNoon

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