Oct 13, 2025 7 min read Daily Rundown

🛎️ Mind Commands Reality

Plus: n8n Hits $2.5B, Retail’s AI Gold Rush

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The lines between thought, code, and commerce are dissolving.

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Neuralink Turns Thought Into Motion as Mind Commands Reality

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This was truly a week for the books. I can’t remember the last time I put in a solid 8 hour work day and last week I put in 3 in a row. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my life… pic.twitter.com/7jtU5qVEdo
— Nick Wray (@Telepath_8) October 6, 2025

📌 What’s happening: Neuralink has reached a remarkable milestone as an ALS patient named Nick Wray successfully used the company’s implanted brain chip to control a robotic arm entirely through thought. In a recent public demonstration, Wray operated the arm to pick up a cup, take a drink, open a refrigerator, put on a hat, and heat food in a microwave. This achievement is part of Neuralink’s FDA-approved “CONVOY” study, which aims to restore autonomy for patients with severe paralysis. What once existed only on computer screens is now extending into the physical world, marking a major step in the evolution of brain–computer technology.

🧠 How this hits reality: This moment represents a shift from science fiction to science fact. Brain–computer interfaces have long been able to translate neural activity into digital actions, but Neuralink’s latest experiment shows that thought can now produce tangible movement. The chip uses 128 ultra-fine threads to detect neural signals and wirelessly transmit them as Bluetooth commands, allowing mental intention to guide physical precision. The result is no longer just assistive technology but the beginning of human extension technology, offering paralyzed patients restored independence and setting the stage for broader cognitive–robotic interaction. Hospitals, rehabilitation programs, and robotics firms will need to rethink their future around this convergence of mind and machine.

🛎️ Key takeaway: The ability to control reality through thought has begun. Neuralink has shown that the human mind no longer ends where the body does—it now reaches into the physical world.

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n8n Hits 2.5B as the Developer’s Real Agent Engine

📌 What’s happening: Berlin-based n8n has raised $180 million in Series C funding led by Accel with participation from Nvidia’s investment arm, pushing its valuation to $2.5 billion. The company has transformed from a no-code automation tool into an AI orchestration platform, with over 80% of workflows now embedding agentic logic. CEO Jan Oberhauser says enterprise users like Vodafone have saved millions by using n8n to combine human decisions, deterministic rules, and AI actions within a single workflow.

🧠 How this hits reality: OpenAI’s AgentKit is trying to make workflow automation accessible to everyone by turning complex orchestration into a visual drag-and-drop process. It lowers the barrier for non-technical teams, but the experience still feels early and rigid. n8n, by contrast, chose the developer path. Its JSON-based flow engine lets engineers build agentic automations that once required heavy custom coding, while still plugging into any stack or model. There is no right or wrong direction here, but with AI now amplifying what developers can do, n8n is clearly running ahead in real-world adoption.

🛎️ Key takeaway: n8n thrives because it amplifies human builders instead of sidelining them, and in this era of half-finished autonomy, that’s exactly where the market puts its money.

TREND

Retail’s AI Gold Rush Turns Aisles into Algorithms

📌 What’s happening: From Gap’s full-stack partnership with Google Cloud to Revolve’s AI stylist and The Body Shop’s predictive supply chain, retail is no longer transforming but being rewritten. In the past week, more than a dozen global retailers unveiled AI integrations that include digital closets, AR try-ons, dynamic shelf pricing, and retail media networks. The message is clear: personalization has become the minimum standard, and data liquidity is now the real logistics advantage.

🧠 How this hits reality: Retail is splitting into two camps. One is rebuilding workflows around AI-native platforms such as Gap, M&S, and Breuninger, while the other is patching AI layers onto legacy systems. The winners are not chasing customer delight; they are pursuing operational elasticity, building systems that can learn, predict, and optimize before human teams even act. Retail media, once treated as an advertising afterthought, has become the core profit engine. Every screen, shelf, and shopping cart is turning into a point of inference.

🛎️ Key takeaway: AI is not only selling to consumers but quietly rewriting how commerce thinks. The smartest retailers are no longer hiring influencers; they are training models that can start shopping for customers before the customers even know what they want.

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