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  "title": "Neuralink enters mass production, but there's a patent that got there first (DARPA has funded neural interface research since the 1970s, long before the word commercialization entered the conversation...)\n",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vshjlc/neuralink_enters_mass_production_but_theres_a/",
  "external_url": "https://www.williamraybrown.com/blog/neuralink-mass-production-malech-patent.html",
  "upload_date": "20260819",
  "published_at": "2026-08-19T09:31:33+00:00",
  "transcript": "\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[33 upvotes] Very sloppy article, yes BCI is a field that has existed for decades, who cares about a 1970s patent that measures brain activity in a different, less invasive and powerful way?\n\n[1 upvotes] Wasn't it like that basically with all modern cutting-edge tech in existence? Invented and tested first decades ago, but dropped due to lack of technological advancement, or due to failure to scale up and/or monetize  \n  \nSo I think the question should not only be \"who invented it first\", but also \"who improved it along the way\" and \"who actually lead it to mass/cheap availability\"? As often, those are done by completely different people in even different eras\n\n[5 upvotes] Damn now instead of Zuckerberg glasses we gonna have people with Musk eyes recording everything",
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