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1. 21 Oct 2026Coherence Neuro raises $45M (co-led by Founders Fund and the OpenAI Startup Fund; the company calls it a Series A, WIRED calls it seed) for a brain implant that watches tumours: three glioblastoma patients had the CIPHER probe on the cortex for ~30 min during surgery at Royal Melbourne Hospital, 7 more planned, then a long-term glioblastoma trialCoherence Neuro
2. 20 Oct 2026Phantom Neuro implants Phantom X, a sub-skin forearm sensor that turns muscle signals into wireless prosthetic-hand commands, in its first human participants (CYBORG study, Cabrini Health, Melbourne; ~1-hour procedures, no general anaesthetic; up to 10 participants)PR Newswire
3. 20 Oct 2026MindEx, a four-chip "cognitive" BCI trial for severe paralysis at UT Southwestern (Dallas), surfaces on ClinicalTrials.gov: recording from four brain regions, 2 participants planned, recruiting since Feb 2026, PI Nader PouratianClinicalTrials.gov NCT05936619
4. 19 Oct 2026ISO publishes a China-led international standard on BCI reference architecture, developed with experts from Italy, South Korea, the UK, India and the US (Global Times, citing People's Daily; standard number not confirmed by WETWIRED)Global Times
5. 19 Oct 2026Paradromics and Siemens Healthineers partner on an end-to-end imaging workflow (MRI, fMRI, vascular imaging, CT) for implantable BCIs, from candidacy to long-term outcomesParadromics
6. 15 Oct 2026Science Corp.'s PRIMA retinal implant named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2026TIME
7. 15 Oct 2026Science News: Casey Harrell has said nearly 2 million words through his UC Davis speech BCI since 2023; Paradromics' first portable speech implant went into a 68-year-old patient in Michigan in JuneScience News
8. 14 Oct 2026Precision Neuroscience releases a Brain Atlas: surface recordings from 70 patients across 12 medical centersPrecision Neuroscience
9. 14 Oct 2026CereGate (Munich) closes an oversubscribed Series C for its Parkinson's gait BCI; amount undisclosedStartbase
10. 13 Oct 2026Science Corp.: its first Stargardt-disease patient, implanted in May, has read a word with PRIMAScience Corp.