The storm that swept in from the Pacific Ocean was the fiercest atmospheric river Northern California had witnessed in five years. Gale-force winds screamed through the coastal redwood groves of the Palo Alto foothills, whipping torrential sheets of rain against the curved glass facade of the Vance NeuralTech campus tower. It was nine o'clock on a Tuesday evening, and the sprawling research campus below was entirely deserted. Fearing mudslides and…
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