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UNESCO's 43rd General Conference adopted the Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology, the first global framework, backed by 194 Member States.

Synchron raised a $200 million Series D led by Double Point Ventures, taking its total funding to $345 million. The company plans to use the capital to commercialize its Stentrode endovascular BCI, prepare pivotal trials and expand its AI and engineering teams. Synchron said 10 people with paralysis had received the implant in U.S. and Australian trials at the time of the announcement.

The FDA cleared Persyst Development's Persyst 15 EEG Review and Analysis Software on October 31, 2025, finding it substantially equivalent under submission number K252160 through the traditional 510(k) pathway. The agency classifies it as Automatic Event Detection Software for Full-Montage Electroencephalograph, a Class II device under regulation 882.1400, with neurology as the assigned review panel. The category covers software that automatically flags events within full-montage EEG recordings for clinician review.

Nihon Kohden's EEG-1260A Neurofax system, along with its amplifier unit and photic stimulator, received FDA 510(k) clearance on October 9, 2025. The device is a Class II medical device in the neurology specialty, with software for quantitative EEG analysis. The traditional 510(k) clearance indicates substantial equivalence to a legally marketed device.

A Neuron paper describes Neuropixels Ultra, which packs 6,144 switchable recording sites at 6-micrometer center-to-center spacing while reading 384 channels simultaneously. In mouse visual cortex recordings, neuronal yield increased by more than twofold. The study also improved subcellular signal detection and cell-type classification, but it did not report simultaneous recording from 10,000 neurons.

ARC-EX is a non-invasive spinal cord stimulation device used to improve hand function in people with spinal cord injury; the CE mark allows commercial sale in the EU.

Tongji Hospital in Wuhan announced a brain-computer interface research institute on 5 September 2025, which it says is the first of its kind run by a hospital in China rather than by a university or a company. The institute covers basic research, clinical application and commercialisation, with the stated aim of building a full-chain BCI system spanning prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of neurological disease.

The FDA cleared Forest Devices' SignalNED System (Model RE) on September 3, 2025, finding it substantially equivalent under submission number K251726 through the traditional 510(k) pathway. The agency classifies it as a Reduced-Montage Standard Electroencephalograph, a Class II device under regulation 882.1400, with neurology as the assigned review panel. Forest Devices has applied reduced-montage EEG to prehospital stroke identification, acquiring interpretable signals in settings such as ambulances.

Neuracle Medical Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ran a clinical trial in China evaluating the safety and efficacy of its implantable wireless brain-computer interface, NEO, in patients with tetraplegia caused by spinal cord injury. The trial is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT06990412 and is listed as completed; its stated primary purpose was to provide the basis for product registration. NEO is designed to let patients control external devices with brain signals.

Thirteen departments in China's Shandong province, led by the Department of Science and Technology, jointly issued the Action Plan for Scientific and Technological Innovation in the Brain-Computer Interface Industry in Shandong (2025-2027), document number Lu Ke Zi [2025] No. 50, dated May 13, 2025 and released on May 16. By 2027 the province aims for roughly 20 breakthroughs in frontier and core technologies, about 30 innovative technology SMEs, two to three high-level talent teams, and one to two specialised incubators in areas rich in research and education resources, with applications reaching medicine, industry, elderly care, education and entertainment. By 2030 it expects an initial BCI industry ecosystem. The plan organises work into six campaigns and backs Jinan and Qingdao as innovation clusters. It is the first of Shandong's two provincial BCI documents and covers the industrial side.