The Elon Effect: Sam Altman’s Merge Labs Takes Aim at Musk’s Neuralink

27/10/2025 4 min Temporada 1 Episodio 80

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Episode Synopsis

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is quietly launching Merge Labs, a new brain–computer startup that uses sound waves instead of surgery to read the mind. With Caltech’s Mikhail Shapiro onboard, the company aims to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink with a safer, non-invasive alternative. Miles Vega explores how this could reshape the race to merge human and machine in today’s Elon Effect.

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