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  "The Register article reports a product launch. It is not an empirical test of these claims.",
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  "name": "Simon Sharwood, Inside datacenter where day starts with cerebrospinal fluid (The Register, 14 March 2026), reporting the launch of the Cortical Labs biological computing cloud",
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