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Without ever clicking a mouse or touching a screen, Mark selected this command on his computer simply using signals from his brain. “I figured I had two choices: I could wallow in self-pity, or I could pick myself up by the bootstraps and do what I could to help,” Mark said. Synchron’s brain implant, the one Mark has, is called a Stentrode and consists of a stent with electrode sensors that can detect electrical brain activity. That external transmitter sits right above the internal transmitter and carries the signal from Mark’s brain to the computer almost instantaneously. Earlier this month, Musk also said Neuralink’s first human trial participant can control a computer mouse with their brain.

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☆ Neuralink competitor Synchron to ramp up brain implant production with equity stake in manufacturer
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Ashley Capoot | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Philip O'Keefe, one of Synchron's patients in the SWITCH clinical trial, was the first person in the world to tweet using a BCI device. Synchron announced Thursday that it has acquired a minority equity stake in the German manufacturer Acquandas, which has the unique ability to layer the metals that make up one component of the company's implant. Founded in 2012, Synchron has developed a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, called the Synchron Switch. During initial studies, Synchron has so far implanted six patients in the U.S. and four patients in Australia. Synchron declined to share the specific size of Synchron's stake in Acquandas or the exact number of devices it is producing.

Persons: Philip O'Keefe, Synchron, Tom Oxley, Riki Banerjee, Oxley, Acquandas Organizations: BCI, U.S . Food, Drug Administration, CNBC Locations: U.S, Australia, Acquandas

☆ Elon Musk claims the first human patient has received a Neuralink brain implant
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Elon Musk claimed on X that Neuralink's first human patient received their brain implant. AdvertisementElon Musk on Monday claimed in a post on X that a Neuralink brain implant has, for the first time, been inserted into a human patient's brain. "The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well," Musk wrote. AdvertisementMusk previously said the Neuralink device would record and stimulate brain activity, acting as a "Fitbit in your skull," and claimed the implant would eventually "solve" conditions including autism and schizophrenia . "However, any for-profit medical device company also has a vested interest in generating a consumer base, which is why they make the sometimes grandiose claims they do."

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NEW YORK, Nov 20 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Microsoft (MSFT.O) boss Satya Nadella’s stressful weekend is probably only the beginning. A lack of corporate governance protections left Nadella with few options to salvage his company’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI. As a 49% owner of OpenAI, Microsoft could have hedged itself by getting more directly involved in oversight. Recruiting Altman is at least a better outcome for Microsoft than standing by and watching him go to Google, a rival startup or opening his own AI shop. Money and salesmanship are two essential elements of developing AI, but so are the proper controls, risk management and strategic clarity.

Persons: Satya Nadella’s, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Altman, Reid Hoffman, Elon Musk’s, Satya Nadella, Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s, Brockman, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Sharon Lam Organizations: Reuters, Microsoft, Google, Altman, Thomson Locations: OpenAI

☆ Google cofounder apparently tried to dodge the famous selfie Elon Musk took after the Tesla CEO denied having a one-night stand with his wife
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Kylie Kirschner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

WSJ published a story last year that cited sources alleging Elon Musk slept with Sergey Brin's wife. Musk denied the affair, saying the two remained friends and shared a selfie of the two at a party. The new Elon Musk biography reveals that Musk forced the selfie, which Brin tried to dodge. Both Musk and Shanahan denied any affair took place. AdvertisementAdvertisement"Right after the story broke, they were at a party together, and Musk maneuvered himself into a position where he could take a selfie with Brin, which Brin tried to avoid," Isaacson states.

Persons: Elon Musk, Sergey Brin's, Musk, Elon, Brin, Sergey Brin, Brin's, Walter Isaacson, Nicole Shanahan, Shanahan, — Brin, —, Musk's, Isaacson Organizations: Service, Elon, New York, York Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ A paralyzed woman couldn't speak for more than 20 years. With AI, now she can — just by thinking.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A development in neurotechnology has given a stroke survivor her voice back after nearly 20 years. The woman had a brain stem stroke that left her paralyzed and unable to speak at age 30. Her new implant uses AI to decode brain signals and convert them to computerized speech. AdvertisementAdvertisementThe neurotechnology uses artificial intelligence to decode the woman's brain signals while she tries to speak. It's amazing I have lived this long; this study has allowed me to really live while I'm still alive!"

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☆ UN warns that implanting unregulated AI chips in your brain because could threaten your mental privacy
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The United Nations is warning about "potentially harmful" advances in neurotechnology. Some tech could allow AI to compromise a person's mental privacy, UNESCO officials said. "It's like putting neurotech on steroids," Mariagrazia Squicciarini, an economist from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, told the AFP. I didn't like it at all," Galvin, who eventually had the device removed, told UNESCO. It could threaten our rights to human dignity, freedom of thought and privacy," UNESCO director-general Audrey Azoulay said in June, when she proposed a "common ethical framework at the international level."

Persons: Gabriela Ramos, Ramos, Antonio Guterres, Hannah Galvin, Galvin, " Galvin, Squicciarini, Audrey Azoulay Organizations: UNESCO, UN, Morning, United Nations, Agence France, United Nations Educational, Cultural Organization, AFP Locations: neurotechnology

☆ New Story Collections on Life’s Absurdities and Pains
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Jen Vafidis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Gender, relationships, family and the meaning of pop culture. But does “Almost Famous” have a scene when the sky opens to reveal giant chopsticks hovering over salmon roe as big as skyscrapers? A minor description from Theodore McCombs’s inquisitive fantasia URANIANS (Astra House, 210 pp., $25), his debut collection, illuminated the whole book for me. The main character in “Laguna Heights,” frustrated by memory gaps caused by his top-shelf neurotechnology, is called the “sort of man pleased to remember that old movies are still in the world.” He’s not pleased; he’s the kind of person who would be pleased. This detached phrasing, however tossed-off, tore me out of the moment, and confronted me with an iffy behavioral theory: Identity predetermines emotions and actions, and emotions and actions reinforce identity, in one smooth loop.

Persons: I’ve, Reiko, bender, you’ve, Theodore McCombs’s, fantasia, ”, He’s Organizations: Astra House Locations: Laguna Heights

☆ MIT neuroscientists are testing a headset that uses a 'disco' of light and sound to treat Alzheimer's disease
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-22 | by ( Yeji Jesse Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Alzheimer's disease is a complicated and debilitating disease that has no cure. One startup is testing whether a "disco" of light and sound can slow the disease in patients. The startup is testing whether a "disco" of light and sound, delivered via a special headset, can slow the disease in patients by stimulating their brains. The company just raised $73 million from investors to evaluate its technology in about 500 people with early- to midstage Alzheimer's disease. Microglia help clear out amyloid, or proteins in the brain that are thought to be a major indicator of Alzheimer's disease.

☆ Neuralink competitor Science launches new platform to accelerate medical device innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Biotechnology startup and Neuralink competitor Science on Monday launched a new platform that aims to make it easier for other companies to quickly develop and produce medical devices. For many startups, that cost is too much to bear, but Hodak is hoping Science Foundry can help. The company's new platform Science Foundry aims to support companies working on similarly ambitious ideas. The cost of using Science Foundry is comparable to the cost of working with academic facilities, which are "cheap to get started," Hodak said. Hodak said the platform will benefit Science and the broader industry as a whole.

☆ Precision Neuroscience, co-founded by Neuralink alum, is creating a brain implant thinner than a human hair
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

Precision was co-founded by Benjamin Rapoport, who also co-founded Elon Musk's BCI company, Neuralink , and Michael Mager. But while Neuralink's BCI is designed to be implanted directly into the brain tissue, Precision relies on a surgical technique that is designed to be less invasive. A BCI is a system that deciphers brain signals and translates them into commands for external technologies, and several companies have successfully created devices with this capability. The device is called the Layer 7 Cortical Interface , and it's a brain implant that aims to help patients with paralysis operate digital devices using only neural signals. "I think that the brain is, in a lot of ways, the next frontier for modern medicine," he said.

☆ 'Context switching is the mind-killer': Elon Musk shared a strange, altered quote from 'Dune' as he juggles leading Twitter with running 4 other companies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk has three times shared an altered version of a famous quote from sci-fi classic "Dune." "Fear is not the mind-killer, context-switching is the mind-killer," Musk tweeted Wednesday. Context switching is the mind-killer," altering the words of a famous passage from the sci-fi series: "Fear is not the mind-killer." Musk's altered quote is taken to mean that switching tasks and contexts repeatedly can be mind-numbing, while maintaining focus on one task is the real winner. The scene Musk posted to Twitter shows the sect member ordering Atreides to put his hand in a box filled with "pain."

☆ Elon Musk says he's confident Neuralink will be ready to put chips into human brains in the next 6 months
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Elon Musk says he's confident that Neuralink's chips will soon be inserted into human brains. The billionaire has set and missed multiple timelines for getting the brain chips into humans. At the event, Musk demonstrated the brain-computer interface technology by showing a video of a monkey apparently fitted with a Neuralink brain chip. Musk has set — and missed — multiple timelines for getting Neuralink's brain chips into humans. In 2019, Musk said the company hoped to get a brain chip into a human patient by the end of 2020.

☆ These startups are beating Elon Musk in the race to let you mind meld with your computer
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-17 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +21 min

That's when I started reporting on them, and like any good nerd I was compelled by what scientists could learn with these "brain computer interfaces." The race for implantable brain chips has been a long, deliberate marathon. Graham Felstead, who has severe paralysis, was the first person to have a BCI inserted via the blood vessels. Brain chips will enable them to perform simple actions on their own and reduce the need for round-the-clock care. "When we started in 2015 and I was pitching venture capitalists on brain computer interfaces, no one knew what a brain computer interface was," says Matt Angle, the CEO of Paradromics.

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