There is a recent [August 10, 2026] report on Axios, Nvidia and Wall Street partner on $500B AI financing, stating that, ”Nvidia announced Monday that it is partnering with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR to assemble more than $500 billion in financing at “attractive rates” for “the buildout of AI infrastructure over time.””
”The move comes after recent reports that Nvidia was in talks to guarantee financing for a quarter-trillion-dollar AI data center for OpenAI, one of its key customers. It was not immediately clear if the OpenAI backstop was part of this deal.”
There is a recent [August 9, 2026] guest essay in The New York Times, Therapy Needs Therapy. Neuroscience Can Help., stating that, “As for diagnoses, those all come from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (better known as the DSM-5,), which has limited use for research because it classifies nearly all disorders based upon observable symptoms without regard to cause — as if everyone who limped into an emergency room got diagnosed with Limping Disorder instead of, say, bone cancer, or playing pickleball while stoned.”
“Finally, a study published in Lancet Psychiatry confirmed what almost anybody could have told you — that people don’t seek therapy solely for relief from D.S.M.-5 symptoms. They seek therapy for self-awareness and self-compassion, new perspective on their situation, adaptive new ways of thinking and better relationships.”
“To be fair, those hundreds of therapies mostly fall under one of three main tents — psychodynamic, existential humanist and cognitive behavioral (better known as C.B.T.) — plus a fourth that we might as well call influencer-driven because its unifying element is TikTok. But you would not believe the range of thinking underlying each.”
“Victoria Beckner, a clinical psychologist in San Francisco, gave a remarkably similar description of C.B.T., in which she trained. “The whole game in C.B.T. is predicated on the idea that people come in with their world model and learned behavior, and that it’s all stuck somehow — you were rejected by mom so you think you’ll be rejected by everybody, and we need to get you to step out, take risks and discover that this is not true.””
NIH Brain Initiative
Brain science should be getting the kind of financial enthusiasm of AI, assuming there are new leaps in explaining the brain for the mind.
Basically, the problem may be less about the importance of the brain to mental health, human intelligence, neurology, and so forth. It maybe that there has not been any major breakthrough in neuroscience, even conceptually, that appears to be worth backing with all debt instruments and suspension of bubble questions.
The brain is important to everything any individual is and does, but the brain remains an opaque organ, because the science bears too much gaps.
There are lots of efforts in theories, for example, predictive coding, predictive processing, central executive, default mode network, and so on, but these are not components of the brain or their mechanisms.
This means that using all the possible evidence in neuroscience, it should have been feasible to explore new candidates for how the brain works, to motivate efforts towards how to drive intense interest in answering unknown questions about the brain, for new answers.
This should have been the central mission of the NIH Brain Initiative, in more than a decade of its mission. Such that it would have been possible to pursue and explore all angles to answer questions and then advance from labels and non-mechanistic theories.
This is the basis of the postulate in Conceptual Biomarkers and Theoretical Biological Factors for Psychiatric and Intelligence Nosology.
That the NIH Brain Initiative does not have something close or better, means that they silenced neuroscience, rather than use the likeliest channels to move it forward aggressively. Simply, all brain functions are linked with neurons — and their electrical and chemical signals.
So, since it had been difficult, if not impossible, to build a theory of how the brain works based on neurons [in part because they are also cells], the progression should be electrical and chemical signals. This is where to go, not connectomics, or connectome research or anything else, directly and without deviations: electrical and chemical signals.
Once this lifts off, possibilities about the brain would expand and motivation would broaden, comparable to what LLMs and robotics are having – because they now appear proven, under the AI umbrella. It is possible that the NIH Brain Initiative can work out a new strategy, along electrical and chemical signals from August 25, 2026.
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