Elon Musk announced on X that Neuralink's second implant, Blindsight, is finished from an engineering perspective and now only needs regulatory approval. He claims the device could restore sight to people who are completely blind or have never seen, including those without prior vision. This follows Neuralink's first product, Telepathy, which lets users control computers by thought and has already been used by a patient to play World of Warcraft.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-01
Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak announced the company implanted its PRIMA vision-restoring chip into its first patient with Stargardt disease, an inherited condition that gradually destroys central vision. The implant was performed in May at Sydney Eye Hospital in Australia as part of an ongoing clinical trial, extending use of a device already sold in Europe for geographic atrophy.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-13
Bridge Neurotech has emerged from stealth with $13.5 million in funding, including backing from General Catalyst, to develop a wearable, ultrasound-based brain-computer interface. Founder and CEO Will Biederman, who previously developed chip technology licensed by Neuralink, says his goal is to avoid the surgical implants used by competitors like Neuralink, Synchron, Paradromics and Precision Neuroscience.
wired.com
· 2026-10-06
In a documentary, Justine Musk accused Elon Musk of referring to mothers of his children as 'breeders' and described her own departure from his life. Meanwhile, Shivon Zilis, Musk’s former partner and mother of four of his children, posted a cryptic message on social media indicating her breakup with Musk after five years. The details highlight ongoing personal disputes involving the billionaire and his family.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-02
Science Corporation CEO Max Hodak will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Beyond Screens session about his company's biohybrid brain-computer interface, for which it has recruited a leading neurobiologist to run the first U.S. human trials. Hodak, a Neuralink co-founder, argues that keyboards and screens will eventually give way to interfaces built directly around brain activity.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-16
Max Hodak, CEO of Science Corporation and Neuralink co-founder, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco about his company's biohybrid brain-computer interface, which has recruited a leading neurobiologist to run its first U.S. human trials. In his Disrupt Stage session, Hodak will argue that computing is moving beyond screens toward interfaces built directly on brain-computer interaction.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-16
Neurotech startup Paradromics reported that a 68-year-old woman with severe speech loss used its Connexus brain-computer interface to hold real-time conversations, including phone calls with her grandchildren. Surgeons implanted the 400-plus-electrode device at University of Michigan Health in June as the first case in a clinical trial, with the system wirelessly converting brain activity into a computer-generated voice.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-09-16
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