Brad Smith is the third person in the world to receive Neuralink’s brain-computer implant, and the first with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)—a progressive neurodegenerative disease that ...

The first nonverbal recipient of Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip has shared a video of how he uses it. Brad Smith, who has ALS, used Neuralink's brain-computer interface to edit the video.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared a core component of a brain implant made by Precision Neuroscience, a company created by a cofounder of Elon Musk’s Neuralink that claims its ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has awarded Neuralink’s brain-computer interface breakthrough device designation for the treatment of individuals with severe speech impairment.

Neuralink has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's "breakthrough" tag for its device to restore communication for individuals with severe speech impairment, Elon Musk's brain implant ...

This patient’s Neuralink brain implant gets a boost from generative AI Last November, Bradford G. Smith got a brain implant from Elon Musk’s company Neuralink. The device, a set of thin wires ...

The third human to receive a Neuralink brain implant, who also has non-verbal ALS, is now able to speak in his own voice thanks to the advancing technology combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In April 2025, Elon Musk supervised a medical team that used Neuralink – a company Musk founded that develops brain-computer interfaces – to wake up 8-year-old Tristan Killip from a coma.