{"id":1029331,"date":"2026-08-17T11:24:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029331"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T05:54:39","slug":"china-takes-aim-at-elon-musks-jesus-level-brain-chip-dream-with-first-bci-surgery-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/17\/china-takes-aim-at-elon-musks-jesus-level-brain-chip-dream-with-first-bci-surgery-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"China takes aim at Elon Musk\u2019s \u2018Jesus-level\u2019 brain-chip dream with first BCI surgery policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has spent years pursuing what he has called &#8220;Jesus-level&#8221; technology through Neuralink, aiming to treat chronic health conditions by implanting computer chips directly into the human brain. But that vision may end up taking shape fastest not in the US, but in China, where state authorities have launched a coordinated push to accelerate the country&#8217;s own brain-computer interface (BCI) industry, according to a South China Morning Post report. China has introduced its first commercial policy covering invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) surgery. State-owned PICC Property and Casualty announced the scheme in partnership with a hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, a tech hub home to leading AI and robotics start-ups.<\/p>\n<p>A first-of-its-kind insurance policy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has spent years pursuing what he has called &#8220;Jesus-level&#8221; technology through Neuralink, aiming to treat chronic health conditions by implanting computer chips directly into the human brain. But that vision may end up taking shape fastest not in the US, but in China, where state authorities have launched a coordinated push to accelerate the country&#8217;s own brain-computer interface (BCI) industry, according to a South China Morning Post report. China has introduced its first commercial policy covering invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) surgery. State-owned PICC Property and Casualty announced the scheme in partnership with a hospital affiliated with Zhejiang University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029332,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029331\/revisions\/1029332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}