Neura Pod (All Things Neuralink)
Sep 30, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
00:00 Intro 00:58 A Beautiful Surprise 09:21 Neuralink Patients 13:26 Elon Talks to China State TV 15:39 Who Runs the Robot 18:29 The Competition 23:04 China's Brain-Data Rule 24:52 Two Brains…
Ryan TanakaHost
[upbeat music] A couple weeks ago, Neuralink posted a video with a three-word caption, "A beautiful surprise."
[gentle music] What? Wait, you're thinking the words and they're popping up?
I, I love you.
Oh my gosh.
[laughs]
He has bulbar onset ALS, which means the disease started in the muscles of his mouth and throat.
Unlike other forms of ALS, his speech went first while his arms and legs still work.
Terry's wife shares that he is naturally an extrovert, and as a result, not having the ability to communicate through speaking took away a lot.
Terry is an extrovert.
[gentle music] He loves to talk, and it is heartbreaking to see what he's going through.
[crowd cheering] We also thought, "You know what? With change comes opportunity." So we wanted to make sure that today you walked away with an understanding of opportunity and the opportunities that are out there.
That's part of his identity that now is no longer there because of the ALS.
He had made partner relatively recently at his company and was really enjoying kind of the apex of his career.
It was becoming difficult to communicate with his clients as well as with his peers at work.
He would come home from a business dinner, and his speech would get slurred.
And at first, I would joke with him.
I'm like, "Oh, how much wine did you have with dinner?" And he would look at me and go, "I didn't have any wine." He unfortunately was placed on long-term disability and retired from his career that he was enjoying.
He's getting to a point where I'm having trouble understanding more and more of what he's saying on a regular basis.
That's one of my biggest fears is that I'll lose that ability to communicate with him and know instinctively what he's needing.
The implant reads the speech signals in his brain, the AI turns them into words, and a voice rebuilt from recordings of Terry before ALS says them aloud.
[gentle music] [grunting] My wish, I had a amazing wife and a lot of wish.
[grunting] And I hope others with limited mobility are a part of the, the solution and-
Neuralink's voice clinical trial is investigating how a brain computer interface, BCI, can restore the ability to communicate for those with severe speech impairment.
[upbeat music] A couple weeks ago, Neuralink posted a video with a three-word caption, "A beautiful surprise."
[gentle music] What? Wait, you're thinking the words and they're popping up?
I, I love you.
Oh my gosh.
[laughs]
He has bulbar onset ALS, which means the disease started in the muscles of his mouth and throat.
Unlike other forms of ALS, his speech went first while his arms and legs still work.
Terry's wife shares that he is naturally an extrovert, and as a result, not having the ability to communicate through speaking took away a lot.
Terry is an extrovert.
[gentle music] He loves to talk, and it is heartbreaking to see what he's going through.
[crowd cheering] We also thought, "You know what? With change comes opportunity." So we wanted to make sure that today you walked away with an understanding of opportunity and the opportunities that are out there.
That's part of his identity that now is no longer there because of the ALS.
He had made partner relatively recently at his company and was really enjoying kind of the apex of his career.
It was becoming difficult to communicate with his clients as well as with his peers at work.
He would come home from a business dinner, and his speech would get slurred.
And at first, I would joke with him.
I'm like, "Oh, how much wine did you have with dinner?" And he would look at me and go, "I didn't have any wine." He unfortunately was placed on long-term disability and retired from his career that he was enjoying.
He's getting to a point where I'm having trouble understanding more and more of what he's saying on a regular basis.
That's one of my biggest fears is that I'll lose that ability to communicate with him and know instinctively what he's needing.
The implant reads the speech signals in his brain, the AI turns them into words, and a voice rebuilt from recordings of Terry before ALS says them aloud.
[gentle music] [grunting] My wish, I had a amazing wife and a lot of wish.
[grunting] And I hope others with limited mobility are a part of the, the solution and-
Neuralink's voice clinical trial is investigating how a brain computer interface, BCI, can restore the ability to communicate for those with severe speech impairment.
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