Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface lab pursues non-invasive, AI-native neural hardware that rivals Neuralink and stirs governance debate.

OpenAI leads a major funding round for Merge Labs, a non-invasive brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Sam Altman, ...

In August, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is part of Merger Labs’ founding team ...

Datasea Inc. ("Datasea" or the "Company"), a technology company specializing in acoustic high-tech innovation and AI-powered multimodal systems, today announced that its China-based operating entities ...

In the 1999 sci-fi classic The Matrix, “plugging in” symbolized digital enslavement. In 2025, for a paraplegia patient in Beijing, it became liberation. ..

BENGALURU, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink will start "high-volume production" of brain-computer interface devices and move to an entirely automated surgical procedure ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Brain–computer interfaces are beginning to truly "understand" Chinese. The INSIDE Institute for NeuroAI, in collaboration with Huashan Hospital affiliated with Fudan University, the National Center ...

Could a future exist where the brain and artificial intelligence systems communicate as effortlessly as a smartphone connecting to Wi-Fi? This may sound like science fiction, but researchers are ...

Fabricated as a single chip, the new implant is orders of magnitude faster and smaller than today’s state-of-the-art brain-computer interfaces, offering an opportunity for more efficacious treatment ...

A new brain implant stands to transform human-computer interaction and expand treatment possibilities for neurological conditions such as epilepsy, spinal cord injury, ALS, stroke, and ...

In September 2024, California quietly set a precedent. Lawmakers passed SB 1223, an amendment to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) that classifies neural ...