VR is helping to make daunting medical treatments more bearable for patients

Stanley Johnson is not a fan of needles. The 67-year-old Air Force veteran has endured his fair share of pokes over the years, but when it was decided that IV infusions would be the best course of act [...]

Human Brain Project founder develops 'digital brains' with Microsoft

Microsoft and Swiss startup Inait announced a partnership to develop AI models inspired by mammalian brains. The technology aims to serve the finance industry and robotics applications.<br /> Th [...]

Sam Altman is planning a brain implant startup to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink

OpenAI is planning to invest in a brain implant startup called Merge Labs, which aims to merge humans and machines through artificial intelligence. [...]

The CES companies hoping your brain is the next big thing in computing

At every CES I’ve ever been to, there’s been one or two gadgets promising to boost your mental health. In recent years, the number of companies making forays into this space has grown, and will li [...]

A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person

Paradromics, a brain-computer interface startup, inserted its brain implant in a person—briefly—in an early test of its technology. [...]

There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains

A group of researchers from across the US and the UK have conducted a study on what AI does to our brains and the results are, in a word, grim. These results were published in a paper called "AI [...]

AI models score off the charts on psychiatric tests when researchers treat them as therapy patients

Language models on the therapy couch: researchers at the University of Luxembourg treat ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok like patients - with disturbing consequences. The AI invents consistent trauma biograph [...]

OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its [...]

Elon Musk's Neuralink plans a brain speech trial in October

Neuralink plans to begin another US clinical trial in October, using the implant to translate thoughts into text. The study will be held through an FDA investigational device exemption. "If you&# [...]