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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is quietly launching Merge Labs, a new brain–computer startup that uses sound waves instead of surgery to read the mind. With Caltech’s Mikhail Shapiro onboard, the company aims to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink with a safer, non-invasive alternative. Miles Vega explores how this could reshape the race to merge human and machine in today’s Elon Effect.
By Cerebruh MediaOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is quietly launching Merge Labs, a new brain–computer startup that uses sound waves instead of surgery to read the mind. With Caltech’s Mikhail Shapiro onboard, the company aims to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink with a safer, non-invasive alternative. Miles Vega explores how this could reshape the race to merge human and machine in today’s Elon Effect.