<ul><li>In a mass firing at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), many teams responsible for reviewing artificial intelligence (AI) and food safety were decimated.</li><li>Hundreds of employees, including scientists who monitor pathogen tests and evaluate the safety of medical devices, were laid off.</li><li>The firings also eliminated positions evaluating brain-implant technology in Elon Musk's Neuralink devices.</li><li>The FDA relied on fees from the drug, medical device, and tobacco industries to fund these positions, which are now at risk.</li></ul>

Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety

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