A marketing professor in Canada has formed a bromance with the billionaire around what they fear is ailing the world.

Sources told The Wall Street Journal that the company considered having the chip removed from its test subject.

Elon Musk’s contrarian streak produced a subtle but devastating observation this week. Generative artificial intelligence, he told a crowd of high-powered executives, just isn’t useful right now for some businesses he runs.

The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday.

Nueralink – a company owned by Elon Musk that produces implants intended to help patients with conditions such as quadriplegia – made a big step forward this year, but also hit a small setback.