OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is rumored to be staffing up Merge Labs, an unannounced brain-computer interface venture that points away from skull-opening implants and toward ultrasound-based sensing. Reporting from The Verge says Altman tapped Caltech engineer Mikhail Shapiro, known for ultrasound neurotech and gene-encoded “acoustic reporter” cells, suggesting a non-implanted, “read-only” path to decode intent … Continue reading Altman’s rumored brain interface startup chases thought-to-ChatGPT dreams