Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition
Filing: Vy Capital owns a 3.4% SpaceX stake; Vy is also the largest outside investor in BoringCo and Neuralink and committed $700M to Musk's Twitter acquisition
Low-profile venture capital firm Vy Capital has emerged as one of the rocket maker's largest shareholders
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp wins EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses
Decision will allow Science Corp to treat patients with retina implants in coming months — A US start-up has received …
Chinese brain-computer interface startup Gestala raised $21.6M co-led by Guosheng Capital and Dalton Venture at a $100M to $200M valuation, per CEO Phoenix Peng
Elon Musk's Neuralink and OpenAI-backed Merge Labs are pushing forward with brain-computer interface (BCI) technology in the U.S. Meanwhile …
Elon Musk says Neuralink plans to start “high-volume production” of brain-computer interface devices and move to an almost automated surgical procedure in 2026
Elon Musk's brain implant company Neuralink will start “high-volume production” of brain-computer interface devices …
Grok's chatbot on X says Elon Musk is superior at almost anything, including drinking urine; Musk says Grok was “manipulated by adversarial prompting”
I feel sorry for billionaires. Each election season … Charles Fitzgerald / Platformonomics : Platformonomics TGIF #109: November 21, 2025 Miles Klee / Rolling Stone : Grok Claims Elon Musk Is More At...
Sources: Sam Altman's brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs hires Mikhail Shapiro, who works on noninvasive techniques for neural imaging and control
The hire suggests that Merge is taking a much less invasive approach than Elon Musk's Neuralink. Also: Sources IRL and reactions to yesterday's Snap scoop.
Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink
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How VC firm 1789 Capital hit $1B+ in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity
& has now topped $1 billion. #WasteFraudAbuse https://www.reuters.com/... Bluesky: Wendy Siegelman / @wendysiegelman : 1789 Capital tops $1 billion in assets - firm was founded by Omeed Malik, Chris B...
Sam Altman says OpenAI “totally screwed up some things” on the GPT-5 rollout and confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink
Over dinner, OpenAI CEO's addressed criticism of GPT-5's rollout, the AI bubble, brain-computer interfaces, buying Google Chrome, and more.