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Naomi Bashkansky quits OpenAI to join BCI startup Conduit
On 23 July 2026, Naomi Bashkansky resigned from OpenAI's alignment team after eighteen months to join Conduit, a San Francisco non-invasive brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Rio Popper and Clem von Stengel. Conduit claims to have collected approximately 10,000 hours of neuro-language data from thousands of paid participants over six months, funded through undisclosed capital. Bashkansky joins as Founding Researcher.