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In mid-August, it became known that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman intends to <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/04484164-724e-4fc2-92a2-e2c13ea639bd">back</a> Merge Labs, a company that is developing a brain-computer interface - a class of technology that allows people to control computers using neural signals from the brain, i.e., actually by the power of thought. This further intensifies competition with his former partner and now rival Elon Musk, who launched a similar startup, Neuralink, in 2016. So far, the technology is being used with the noble goal of helping completely paralyzed people to communicate with the world around them again by controlling computer interfaces. However, both billionaires believe that in the long run, this technology will literally save humanity from extinction.

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The great merger: why billionaires are getting in our heads