Elon Musk's brain-implant firm under probe after 1,500 animal deaths

Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a medical device company, is under federal investigation for potential animal-welfare violations amid internal staff complaints that its animal testing is being rushed, causing needless suffering and deaths, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and sources familiar with the investigation and company operations.
 

Neuralink is developing a brain implant it hopes will help paralyzed people walk again and cure other neurological ailments.

The federal probe, which has not been previously reported, was opened in recent months by the US Department of Agriculture’s Inspector General at the request of a federal prosecutor, according to two sources with