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 [...]

AI receptionists seem like a dangerous idea after a patient revealed her doctor’s system could not understand her speech

A GP surgery in South Yorkshire has withdrawn an AI receptionist after a woman recovering from a stroke could not make it understand her and moved to another practice. The NHS Accessible Information S [...]

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 [...]

China just put its first commercial brain implant into a patient. It’s smaller than Neuralink’s, on purpose.

China has performed the world’s first surgery using a commercially approved brain-computer interface. Surgeons at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai implanted a coin-sized chip in a patient with impaired [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

Neuralink finally has a real rival: Paradromics just put a brain chip in its first patient

Neuralink has dominated the brain-chip story for two years. It now has a serious challenger with a patient of its own. Paradromics, an Austin neurotech firm, has implanted its Connexus brain-computer [...]

A retina chip that restores sight is going on sale in Europe

Geographic atrophy is the worst form of age-related macular degeneration. For most people who have it, the centre of the world slowly greys out. Faces blur. Words vanish. There is no cure, only treatm [...]

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 [...]