AI pioneer Ray Kurzweil has joined Subsense, a neurotechnology startup that plans to use a nasal spray of charged nanoparticles to connect computers to brains without surgery, as an alternative to Neu…
Ray Kurzweil, the futurist known for predicting human-machine merging, has joined Subsense, a Palo Alto-based neurotech startup, as a product and vision advisor. Subsense, which has raised $27 million…
Subsense, a Palo Alto startup founded by Tetiana Aleksandrova and Artem Sokolov, has raised $27 million in seed funding to develop NanoBCI, a non-surgical brain-computer interface that delivers nanopa…
Ray Kurzweil, the AI scientist and Google researcher known for his 'singularity' theory, is joining Subsense, a four-year-old Palo Alto-based startup developing a brain-computer interface that involve…
A new analysis by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology warns that U.S. development of brain-computer interfaces is being overtaken by China's push in manufacturing, data, and com…
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released draft guidelines to formulate or revise more than 40 brain-computer interface standards by 2028, aiming to accelerate commer…
Rillet, an AI-native accounting startup, has raised $100 million in a Series C round at a $1 billion valuation, and its CEO Nicolas Kopp says AI is reshaping consulting firm hiring by reducing routine…
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 …