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

New scientific research presented at this week’s Society for Neuroscience 2022 conference by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows that a brain-machine interface (BMI), also known as ...

OpenAI is participating in a $250 million seed round into Merge Labs, Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup. The ...

Meta is testing artificial intelligence systems that can turn patterns of brain activity into text, effectively letting people “type” with their thoughts while lying inside a scanner. The work is ...

German doctors have given patients with locked-in syndrome a way to communicate using yes or no answers. Published in the journal PLOS Biology, the research is so remarkable that it has Black Mirror ...

BCI® Therapy is being developed to restore thought-driven movement in people living with spinal cord injuries and other movement disabilitiesARC-BCI is the world’s first and most advanced ...

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

Reading brain activity with advanced technologies is not a new concept. However, most techniques have focused on identifying single words associated with an object or action a person is seeing or ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based nonprofit Forest Neurotech, according to a source with direct knowledge of the ...

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

OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup founded by Sam Altman. The company aims to develop safe ...