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This Week in Startups · 2026-04-29 · 56 min · 11,031 words

The $10M+ Bet on a Beanie That Reads Your Brain | Sabi & the Future of BCI | E2282

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You're staking your entire reputations on a cap that allows me to dictate my words. It does not work. There's no way to put a beanie on and then have it do transcription. Come on. It is real.

You you would not believe the amount of engineering and effort that has gone into it to make it work, but it does work. This doesn't work. I'm calling cap. How can satellites understand what is a terrain on the Earth even through going through atmosphere? Exactly.

Okay, what we're trying to do is building a GPS for the print. You got metaphors. You got a killer idea. Congratulations, Rogue, but this is this week in startups. Do you have a demo?

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