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China steps up brain-computer-interface push: several devices approved this year, subsidies for local startups

Source: Semafor; Wed, Sep 2, 2026

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Semafor reports that Beijing wants to catch up with Musk's Neuralink; a number of domestic BCI devices have been approved this year.

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