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Musk’s Neuralink Implants Brain Chip in First Human

WSJ What’s News

The Wall Street Journal

News, Daily News

4.14.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

A.M. Edition for Jan. 30. The surgery is a potential milestone in the development of “brain-computer interface” technology that could one day help those suffering from debilitating conditions such as paralysis to interact with their surroundings. Professor Anne Vanhoestenberghe explains how the technology works and its potential risks and rewards. Plus, Chinese EV-giant BYD slips as profits miss expectations. And a former Fed official weighs in on the most-watched meeting of the year. Luke Vargas hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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today. Teacencies apply KPinance, free servicing offer available until 29th of February. Elon Musk's Nurelink says it's implanted its first brain chip in a human.

0:38.0

Plus the Fed kicks off its first rate-setting meeting of the year with all eyes on clues to when a rate cut might occur.

0:47.1

And China's E.V. price war heats up, sending shares of world leader BYD off course.

0:53.4

There's just so many EB makers, Tesla and Volkswagen, of course,

0:57.4

the foreign companies, but also so many domestic

0:59.6

EV makers, even Huawei, the Telecommunication company is entering the EV market, so that seems to have hit profit

1:06.0

margins.

1:07.0

It's Tuesday, January 30th.

1:09.0

I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal, and here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business

1:15.6

stories moving your world today. We begin today in the world of science and on the frontier of human and computer.

1:29.0

That's because overnight Elon Musk said his company Neurelink had implanted the first human with one of its brain

1:36.7

computer interface devices with Musk adding that the patient was recovering

1:41.1

well though he provided few other details. The event could

1:45.3

mark a potential milestone in the development of a technology that could one day

1:49.4

help people with debilitating conditions to interact with their surroundings

1:53.7

via what Neurrelink calls telepathy, enabling the control of smartphones or

1:58.7

computers by merely thinking. And here to answer some of the many questions that we've got about this news.

2:04.1

I'm joined by Anne Van Hoostenberg, a professor of active implantable medical devices at King's

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