China beats Elon Musk’s Neuralink to the world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant — car crash victim given coin-sized chip that turns neural signals into hand movements
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Regulatory approval for commercial brain implants in China means BCI is moving from lab demo to regulated medical product in at least one major market. Anyone working on neuro-adjacent hardware or software now has to factor in a world where invasive interfaces may scale faster under non-US regimes.
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