Elon Musk’s Neuralink shows brain-chip patient playing online chess

Noland Arbaugh, paralyzed after diving accident, received implant in January but experts caution that procedure is in early days

Elon Musk's brain-chip startup Neuralink livestreamed its first patient implanted with a chip playing online chess.

Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulders after a diving accident, was playing chess on his laptop and moving the cursor using the Neuralink device.