Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the Merge Labs brain-computer ...
A new stealthy Seattle startup is taking sound technology to a whole new dimension. Hearvana was just founded by University of Washington computer science researchers. Shyam Gollakota, co-founder of ...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is backing Merge Labs, a revolutionary brain-computer interface startup using sound waves to read human ...
The move positions Altman in direct competition with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, whose brain implants require open skull ...
GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Taylor Soper on May 13, 2025 at 9:35 ...