SAM ALTMAN REPORTEDLY DEVELOPING NONINVASIVE BRAIN INTERFACE TO RIVAL ELON MUSK'S NEURALINK

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Sam Altman's Merge Labs is a brain-computer interface (BCI) startup. It recently hired an award-winning biomolecular engineer, Mikhail Shapiro. Shapiro's past work suggests that the startup could be aiming to create a device that could link to the brain using sound waves. If Merge Labs is successful, its device may be preferable to Neuralink's BCI as it wouldn't require surgery.