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US Treasury proposes barring new US private investment in Chinese brain-computer interface companies

The US Treasury proposed rules on 22 October 2026 that would prohibit US persons from most new non-public investments in companies that develop or produce brain-computer interfaces and are based in, or owned or controlled from, China, Hong Kong or Macau. The definition covers invasive and non-invasive systems and their software. Brain-computer interfaces sit in the rule's prohibited tier, with no notify-only option, no technical threshold and no small-deal exemption for direct investments. Comments are due by 7 December 2026.

Oct 24, 2026 · 10 min read

Industry News

Stanford launches a five-year project to build a digital twin of the human brain

Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announced the Stanford Digital Brain Project on 2 November 2026, funded by Mark and Mary Stevens and Clara Wu Tsai, to train AI models that predict human brain activity from 7-tesla MRI and wearable MEG scans and release the data and models openly. A Meta-funded project of the same name, coordinated in Paris, scaled to $15 million in July.

Nov 4 · 4 min read

Industry News

Neuralink tests iPhone calls with its speech implant

Neuralink said on 29 October 2026 that its engineers spent 72 hours at the home of a participant in its VOICE speech trial and prototyped features including iPhone call integration, an iOS keyboard for brain-based dictation, lock-screen controls, automatic detection of attempted speech and a Grok agent triggered by thought. A Texas filing registered on 28 October shows Neuralink plans a $2.7 million vivarium at its Austin-area site.

Oct 31 · 4 min read

Industry News

Chinese state television says ultrasound brain stimulation improved conscious behaviour in 13 of 24 patients

China Central Television reported on 29 and 30 October 2026 that, in a study by the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Kunming Medical University, 13 of 24 patients with chronic disorders of consciousness showed clear improvement after non-invasive ultrasound stimulation. Chinese media call the device a brain-computer interface, and the reports describe only stimulation. InsideBCI found no published paper on the study and no registration for it on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Oct 31 · 4 min read

Industry News

Precision Neuroscience signs Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi as its first research site outside the US

Precision Neuroscience signed a two-year memorandum of understanding with Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi on 21 October 2026, with the support of the Department of Health Abu Dhabi, to evaluate its Layer 7 cortical interface in collaborative clinical research. It is the company's first clinical research site outside the United States. The same hospital hosts Neuralink's UAE-PRIME trial, and Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital took part in Precision's $250 million Series D.

Oct 30 · 2 min read

Market Moves

NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million for its brain implant

Shanghai brain-computer interface company NeuroXess announced a RMB 700 million Series B round on 28 October 2026, co-led by SDIC Juli, Shenzhen Capital Group and Qinzhi Capital and described by 36Kr as dominated overall by state capital. The money will fund the multicentre registration trial of its implant for people with quadriplegia, a factory in Jiangxi and next-generation products.

Oct 29 · 4 min read

Industry News

Neuralink says an ALS patient reached 75 words a minute with its speech implant

Neuralink said on 28 October 2026 that one participant with ALS in its VOICE speech trial reached 75 words per minute with a 5.8 per cent word error rate on a 125,000-word vocabulary in their first week. The figures come from a company post and have not been peer-reviewed. They are faster than any published result on a vocabulary that size, and less accurate than the best published results from UC Davis.

Oct 29 · 4 min read

Industry News

Chinese ultrasound maker eSonic signs a cooperation deal with researchers from Mickael Tanter's Paris lab

Beijing-based eSonic launched what it calls the eSonic brain-computer interface platform on 22 October 2026 and signed a Sino-French strategic cooperation with researchers from Mickael Tanter's team, whose Paris lab introduced functional ultrasound imaging of the brain in 2011. The company's only public account is its own press release. No French institution is named as a party, and eSonic cites no published data showing functional ultrasound through an intact adult human skull.

Oct 28 · 5 min read