{"id":985946,"date":"2026-01-17T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985946"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:42:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:12:47","slug":"openai-joins-seed-round-of-brain-computer-interface-startup-merge-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/openai-joins-seed-round-of-brain-computer-interface-startup-merge-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI joins seed round of brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company OpenAI will participate in the seed funding round of Merge Labs, a brain\u2013computer interface (BCI) startup backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, according to a post shared by the company on X late on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. The move signals OpenAI\u2019s growing interest in technologies that extend beyond software, pointing to a longer-term focus on hardware and human-augmentation research alongside its core AI business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence company OpenAI will participate in the seed funding round of Merge Labs, a brain\u2013computer interface (BCI) startup backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, according to a post shared by the company on X late on Thursday. The financial terms of the investment were not disclosed. The move signals OpenAI\u2019s growing interest in technologies that extend beyond software, pointing to a longer-term focus on hardware and human-augmentation research alongside its core AI business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985946","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}