Meta has unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that converts brain activity into text without surgery, bringing assistive communication a step closer to reality.

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Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has recently emerged as a transformative paradigm for brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), with impact spanning hardware, data, algorithms and ...

Tiny lab-grown brains are offering an unprecedented look at how schizophrenia and bipolar disorder disrupt neural activity. Researchers found distinct electrical firing patterns that could identify ...

Elon Musk’s Neuralink is back with its most ambitious implant yet: a device aimed at helping the blind. While still experimental, early results are generating serious buzz in the tech world. Could ...

The GammaTile device received Food and Drug Administration clearance in 2018 for recurrent brain tumors and in 2020 for newly diagnosed malignant tumors. Radiation treatment after surgery is typically ...

The idea of controlling machines with one’s mind used to be a staple of a certain kind of science fiction. Now it’s quickly becoming reality. Implantable brain-computer interfaces, or BCIs, have ...

Hackers are excited. Surveillance advertising corporations are elated. Political thought-police are enraptured. China has just approved the world’s first brain-computer chip. And they’ve beaten ...

A photo taken on August 3, 2023 shows Rodney Gorham, a recipient of a Synchron brain implant, working on a computer at his home in Melbourne. WILLIAM WEST/Getty Images Synchron, the brain-computer ...

Jeff Bezos has put money behind one of the most contrarian bets in artificial intelligence. Flourish, a neuroscience-focused AI startup, has raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation from a ...

Audrey Crews is the first female in the world to receive a Neuralink brain implant. At the age of 16, she was left paralyzed from the neck down after a spinal cord injury. On Crews’ website, she says ...

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