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OpenAI has backed Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup co-founded by Sam Altman, as part of a $250 million seed round focused on non-invasive BCI technology.

I’ve been writing about technology for more than 12 years, and in that time, I’ve visited my fair share of smartphone assembly lines, design studios, and manufacturing hubs — places where the devices ...