Geneva-based Ability Neurotech has begun an intraoperative study in Germany, recording neural signals from patients undergoing brain tumor surgery in 20- to 30-minute sessions, and plans a chronic cli…
AI News Digest for August 20 reports 30 AI stories, including H200 chips quietly entering China despite export controls, CISA issuing an advisory about AI-generated malware, Japan requiring AI firms t…
Rillet, an accounting automation startup, raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation, doubling its valuation from its $70 million Series B in August 2025. The company, founded b…
Sam Altman's OpenAI co-founded Tools for Humanity, which developed the Orb, a device that scans people's eyes to issue Proof of Humanity credentials, now available on four continents. The company aims…
Science Corp will begin selling its Prima retina implant in Europe after earning a CE mark from DEKRA, clearing the device for sale across 30 countries. The chip, which restores sight in patients with…
Elon Musk's brain chip startup Neuralink is being valued as high as $42 billion in secondary market transactions, a nearly fivefold increase from its $9 billion valuation in its last funding round las…
Hemispheric, a Tel Aviv-based NeuroAI startup co-founded by a Face ID inventor, emerged from stealth with $52M to develop Descartes, a 6-billion-parameter AI model trained on 250,000 hours of brain re…
Chinese neurotechnology firm Neuracle (Borui Kang Medical Technology) has performed the world's first successful surgical implant of a commercial brain-computer interface, a coin-sized device called N…
China's BrainCo, a leading neurotech firm, is developing non-invasive brain-computer interfaces like headbands and caps that read brain signals through the scalp, contrasting with Neuralink's surgical…
AI makes it easy to build things but exposes the difficulty of defining requirements, as illustrated by a second-grade peanut butter and jelly sandwich exercise where unspoken assumptions led to silly…
A new service called hyoomn offers B2B SaaS teams human-led creative direction for AI-generated designs, providing async feedback on UI, UX, and brand elements via Slack or email for $1,950 per month.…
Meta's AI research division released Brain2QWERTY in early 2025, a system that decodes typed sentences from non-invasive MEG brain recordings with 61% average word accuracy. The model reads neural sig…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that decodes brain signals into typed sentences with 61% average word accuracy, up from 48% last year. The system uses a magnetoencephalography …
Meta's FAIR lab, in collaboration with Spain's BCBL, unveiled Brain2Qwerty, a non-invasive AI system that decodes typed sentences from brain activity with up to 80% character accuracy using magnetoenc…
Meta unveiled Brain2Qwerty v2, a non-invasive AI system that translates brain activity into text with 61% average word accuracy, compared to 8% for previous non-invasive methods. The system uses a mag…
Meta AI's Brain2Qwerty system decodes brain signals into text using non-invasive MEG sensors, achieving a 32% character error rate, but the technology is not yet real-time or commercially viable. The …
Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Me…
Hyoomn, a new service from Fairpixels, offers weekly async design reviews for B2B SaaS teams that use AI to code, providing actionable feedback on UI, UX, and brand for $1,950/month. The service targe…
A tech commentator argues that keyboard and mouse interfaces are unnatural for humans and predicts their obsolescence within 20 years, citing innovations like voice models, Neuralink, and Apple Vision…
Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX went public in June 2026, with his net worth more than tripling that of other billionaires. His wealth grew from under $30 billion in early…