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The Download: China’s brain implant ambitions
China has approved the world’s first invasive brain-computer interface, the NEO implant, enabling paralyzed patient Dong Hui to write using his thoughts. The milestone accelerates China’s push for global leadership in brain implants, while other tech updates include Nvidia’s AI chip for PCs, US export restrictions on AI chips to China, and pig organ transplants in humans.
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