One of the co-founders of Neuralink, Benjamin Rapoport, has departed from the Elon Musk-led brain-computer interface company due to safety concerns. The departure of this top executive intensifies the ongoing debate about the safety and ethics of brain-computer interfaces. During a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal’s podcast “The Future of Everything,” Rapoport made … Read more
Elon Musk-led neurotechnology company Neuralink might have just come a step closer to achieving its goal. The first human who was implanted with Neuralink’s brain chip last month has been able to move a computer mouse using their thoughts, Musk said on X. “Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full … Read more
In May, the company said it had received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration to conduct its first human trials. And late last year Neuralink said it was recruiting patients with quadriplegia due to cervical spinal cord injury or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) for the trial. On X, Musk wrote that Neuralink’s first … Read more
