Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist, Google researcher, and “AI visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a method to put computers in the brain by snorting nanoparticles. Subsense, a four-year old company developing brain-computer interface technology, announced the news alongside Kurzweil at an event at its Palo Alto headquarters on Wednesday evening. Subsense is one of numerous neurotechnology companies developing brain computing interfaces, with Elon Musk’s Neuralink most prominent in the group. Neuralink has implanted wireless chips in the brains of roughly a dozen people, enabling patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries to control computers with their thoughts. While Neuralink requires drilling through the skull to implant electrodes, Subsense is developing a nonsurgical—though still quite invasive—approach that involves introducing charged nanoparticles into the brain intranasally. The process would be similar to inhaling allergy medicine via a nasal spray. Once inside the brain, the nanoparticles would be controlled—to stimulate neurons in specific areas of the brain or to read neuron activity—through a specialized cap or headset containing magnetic coils. Subsense showed off a nonfunctional mock-up of a cap that looked like a cross between a baseball cap and a bike helmet. Read more [paywall removed for Redditors]: https://fortune.com/2026/09/03/ai-visionary-ray-kurzweil-is-joining-a-silicon-valley-startup-developing-a-brain-computer-system-that-involves-snorting-nano-particles/ submitted by /u/fortune
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