Meta Expands Into Neural Interfaces While Escalating Political Spending
Sep/26/2025
On September 17, Meta Platforms filed a U.S. trademark for Meta Neural Band, a wrist-worn device equipped with sensors to capture muscle and nerve activity, designed to serve as both a health tracker and an interface for gaming, VR, AR, and mixed-reality systems. The filing signals the company’s push to make human-computer interaction more seamless, blending biometric monitoring with gesture-based control. Simultaneously, Meta is ramping up its political influence: it has launched two new super PACs, including the American Technology Excellence Project, pledging tens of millions of dollars to back state legislators favorable to the AI industry. Together with its pledge to spend $600 billion on data centers and its fierce rivalry with U.S. and Chinese competitors, Meta is positioning itself at the nexus of next-generation hardware innovation and the political battles shaping the future of artificial intelligence.
