Elon Musk announces Neuralink's 'show and tell' event on Halloween

Elon Musk announced his Neuralink is hosting a'show and tell' progress event on October 31, which will be the first progress update since the world watched a brain-chipped monkey play a video game with its mind in April 2021 - this animal later died during testing. The biotech firm is developing a brain-computer interface that it claims could one day make humans hyper-intelligent, and allow paralyzed people to walk again. Musk shared news of the Halloween event on Twitter, no other details were included, but it follows rumors that Neuralink has offered to buy its rival Synchron, which recently completed the first brain-chip in a human. In April Musk shared that Neuralink was moving along to start human trials at the end of 2022, which could very well be what the billionaire has in store at the October presentation. Neuralink showed its first progress update in August 2020 during a demonstration that showcased a pig with an early version of the brain chip.