Bridge Neurotech launched with $13.5 million to build a non-surgical ultrasound brain-computer interface, aimed at people who will not accept a brain implant. The device trades the fast, direct neural signal that lets implant users move robotic arms and type for a slower reading taken from blood flow.
Reality
- Evidence50
- Adoption5
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
Precision Neuroscience raised $250 million at just over a $1 billion valuation, $42.5 million of it from Bill Ackman's Pershing Square and his institute. The other $207.5 million came in undisclosed amounts, so the round names its generalist investors without showing what they paid.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption25
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
BrainGate researchers found motor cortex firing in two people with tetraplegia was strongest for a photorealistic hand and weakest for an abstract cube. The ordering bears on how assistive devices are shaped, though nobody was controlling anything during the recordings.
Reality
- Evidence38
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives35
- Confidence40
The neural value alignment work with Microsoft Research Asia decodes brain waves to tell an agent whether its goal or its method was wrong. The speed claim comes from simulations.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+33
- Incentives62
- Confidence41
United Imaging and Tianjin University say uMR Shenguan decodes, modulates and measures in one system. The specifications that would let anyone check that are not in the announcement.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption8
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives74
- Confidence33
Neko Health's consumer scan data would reportedly pre-screen candidates for Neuralink's PRIME trial. The interesting part is not the science, it is what the consent form has to cover.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+58
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence34