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Last May, Neuralink announced ... Eventually, many of the monkeys had to be put down. In one 2019 incident, a chip that was being implanted into one of the macaques's brains "broke off" during ...
Neuralink released video of a macaque monkey named Pager playing ... Neuralink refuted accusations from an animal-rights group that its test monkeys were mistreated. "At Neuralink, we are ...
Musk first acknowledged the deaths of the macaques on September 10 in a ... Musk’s post on X about Neuralink’s monkeys has been viewed more than 760,000 times, and the Physicians Committee ...
Neuralink, a startup co-founded by Musk in ... The findings were gruesome: One rhesus macaque monkey’s nausea was “so severe that the animal vomited and had open sores in her esophagus before ...
A WIRED investigation this year shed serious doubt on Musk’s animal welfare claims, finding that several macaque monkeys who ... this year that Neuralink's animal test subjects could not ...
Elon Musk announced that his human tech startup Neuralink has inserted a chip implant into the brain of its first human test subject ... sheep and monkeys — and was called out for animal ...
Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface company Neuralink announced ... pigs, and monkeys. In 2021, the company released footage of one of its test macaques playing Pong via a prototype “brain ...
But even before its applications to begin human clinical trials, Neuralink repeatedly drew ire from critics and watchdogs concerning its treatment of test animals. In a December 2022 Reuters ...
The behind the scenes details of Neuralink's grisly monkey experiments just keep getting ... "deformed and ruptured" the brain of one female macaque, after an experiment caused severe cerebral ...
Macaque monkeys have been used in testing by Neuralink as the company has been developing Bluetooth-enabled implantable chips — inserted into the monkey’s brains — that the company says ...