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Two major advancements dominate August’s neurotech developments: China’s first closed-loop MRI-based brain interface enables real-time neural decoding and modulation, while DeepMind alumni-led Inherent demonstrates AI’s growing research capabilities by outperforming larger models in scientific replication tasks. These innovations coincide with platform updates from major AI players.

Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive a Neuralink brain implant in January, speaks about his experience and expectations.

Purdue researchers developed a soft material grown inside living tissue by blood that allows precise, reversible neural modulation using near-infrared light.

Chinese startups are quickly turning brain-computer interface technology into practical products, challenging US leaders like Neuralink.

For people who have trouble communicating, recordings from electrodes on the brain surface could help reproduce the musicality of speech

A new system combines brain signals with artificial intelligence to help people control robotic arms or cursors faster, offering hope for those with paralysis or neurological disorders.

This breakthrough combines quantum computing and AI to detect movement intentions in the brain, offering hope for better assistive devices for people with paralysis.

Tiny magnetic nanodiscs can be injected into the brain where they can stimulate brain cells without using more invasive means to do the same.

Organoid intelligence could help prevent and treat neurological conditions

MIT researchers propose a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound to probe brain activity and understand how thoughts and sensations emerge from neural circuits.