Benz’s futuristic Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) concept, where you can control car features using only your brain activity.

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read ...

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

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

Merge Labs is a “research lab” dedicated to “bridging biological and artificial intelligence to maximize human ability.” ...

Medtronic will integrate Precision Neuroscience’s Layer 7 cortical interface with its StealthStation surgical navigation ...

Other notable brain computer interface startups include Neuralink, which is run by Elon Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 ...

Breanna Olson began to feel weakness in her legs in 2022, and became partially paralysed around 18 months later.

Wang, who previously founded and led Scale AI before joining Meta in 2025, explained his reasoning by highlighting how ...

At every CES I’ve ever been to, there’s been one or two gadgets promising to boost your mental health. In recent years, the ...

Elon Musk is once again predicting the end of a technology most people still consider indispensable, arguing that the smartphone era is already in its final chapter and could vanish within a few years ...

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 ...