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US Treasury proposes barring new US private investment in Chinese brain-computer interface companies

The US Treasury proposed rules on 22 October 2026 that would prohibit US persons from most new non-public investments in companies that develop or produce brain-computer interfaces and are based in, or owned or controlled from, China, Hong Kong or Macau. The definition covers invasive and non-invasive systems and their software. Brain-computer interfaces sit in the rule's prohibited tier, with no notify-only option, no technical threshold and no small-deal exemption for direct investments. Comments are due by 7 December 2026.

Oct 24, 2026 · 10 min read

Market Moves

ONWARD Medical's spinal stimulator sales stalled in the third quarter

ONWARD Medical reported EUR 2.5 million of revenue for the third quarter of 2026 on 3 November, up from EUR 1.7 million a year earlier, but ARC-EX product revenue of EUR 2.0 million and 88 units were roughly level with the second quarter. The shares closed about 11.5 per cent lower in Brussels and KBC Securities cut its rating to hold.

Nov 5 · 4 min read

Market Moves

Three Chinese BCI companies raised RMB 1.66 billion in eight days

NeuroXess, Nanochap and Shanghai's Zhudong Technology announced rounds totalling RMB 1.664 billion between 28 October and 4 November 2026, with state-backed funds among the investors, while StairMed filed for A-share pre-listing tutoring. The 'over RMB 3 billion in a week' figure in Chinese coverage adds StairMed's financing since July.

Nov 5 · 3 min read

Industry News

Stanford launches a five-year project to build a digital twin of the human brain

Stanford's Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute announced the Stanford Digital Brain Project on 2 November 2026, funded by Mark and Mary Stevens and Clara Wu Tsai, to train AI models that predict human brain activity from 7-tesla MRI and wearable MEG scans and release the data and models openly. A Meta-funded project of the same name, coordinated in Paris, scaled to $15 million in July.

Nov 4 · 4 min read

Market Moves

Chinese vision-implant maker Nanochap raises RMB 500 million

Hangzhou-based Nanochap Electronics said on 3 November 2026 that it had closed a RMB 500 million Series C+ round led by Gaorong Ventures, its second round of 2026, bringing its total funding to RMB 1 billion. The company is running a registration trial of a 320-channel retinal implant that it says has been placed in three blind patients.

Nov 4 · 3 min read

Market Moves

BrainCo is developing a brain-stimulation wearable it pitches as an electronic GLP-1

Hangzhou-based BrainCo is developing a wearable that it says could suppress appetite through brain stimulation, founding partner Nyx He told Bloomberg in an interview published on 3 November 2026, and aims to bring it to market within two to three years, starting in China. BrainCo has not named the device, given technical details or published any trial data.

Nov 4 · 4 min read

Industry News

Neuralink tests iPhone calls with its speech implant

Neuralink said on 29 October 2026 that its engineers spent 72 hours at the home of a participant in its VOICE speech trial and prototyped features including iPhone call integration, an iOS keyboard for brain-based dictation, lock-screen controls, automatic detection of attempted speech and a Grok agent triggered by thought. A Texas filing registered on 28 October shows Neuralink plans a $2.7 million vivarium at its Austin-area site.

Oct 31 · 4 min read

Industry News

Chinese state television says ultrasound brain stimulation improved conscious behaviour in 13 of 24 patients

China Central Television reported on 29 and 30 October 2026 that, in a study by the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Kunming Medical University, 13 of 24 patients with chronic disorders of consciousness showed clear improvement after non-invasive ultrasound stimulation. Chinese media call the device a brain-computer interface, and the reports describe only stimulation. InsideBCI found no published paper on the study and no registration for it on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Oct 31 · 4 min read