Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

There are a few ways to wrap your head around watching a seven-and-a-half-hour movie. When I was a kid I used to mark time in…

Chinese brain interface startup Gestala raises $21M just two months after launch |

Elon Musk’s Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile, Chinese serial entrepreneur Phoenix Peng is…

Science Corp. raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market |

While most of the venture world has been chasing AI deals, Max Hodak — the co-founder and former president of Neuralink — has been working…

This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI

AI labFlapping Airplanesjust landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs have quietly…

Ex-Google X trio wants their AI to be your second brain — and they just raised $6M to make it happen |

Three former Google X scientists aim to give you a second brain virtually — not in the sci-fi or chip-in-your-head sense, but through an AI-powered…