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You have full access to this article via your institution. Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here . A brain-computer interface developed by Chinese company NeuroXess. Credit: Chengdu Economic Daily/VCG via Getty Start-up firms in China are ramping up their efforts to develop artificial-intelligence-powered brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) that can help people move, speak and control external devices. One company, NeuroXess, has run a small trial in which a BCI enabled one man with a spinal cord injury to control appliances by moving a computer cursor with his thoughts . The company has also developed a large language model that enables a brain implant to decode Mandarin at a rate faster than the average talking speed of a native speaker. Nature | 5 min read Scientists are racing to trial experimental treatments and potentially vaccines against the rare Bundibugyo species of the Ebola virus , which is spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. A World Health Organization-sponsored clinical trial is set to test two treatments — a broad-acting antiviral and a mixture of two antibodies that recognizes diverse strains of Ebola — pending approval by the two countries’ governments. Options for vaccines are limited, but health officials are considering whether an approved vaccine for another species of Ebola virus could be trialled in the current outbreak. …