Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, doesn’t seem content to be just the man behind ChatGPT. Since then, he and his team have made or pitched everything from wearable devices to AI video generators and web browsers. But the latest pitch from the tech giant is certainly a bit weirder.

According to The Verge’s Alex Heath in his Sources newsletter, Altman and his team are looking into building a brain interface. These are essentially what they say on the tin — devices aimed at using the brain as an interface to power them.

The report from Heath claims that Altman plans to work with Mikhail Shapiro, a well-known biomolecular engineer. Shapiro will be joining Altman’s brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs.

Currently, not much is known about this new project. However, with the inclusion of S

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