U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

Reportedly among the recent job cuts at the FDA were workers overseeing the review of Musk’s brain chip-implant company, Neuralink. Since the moment the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was first proposed,

Federal scientists reviewing Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain chip were fired as part of the Department of Government Efficiency’s latest purge, a report revealed Monday. The group of 20, from the Food and Drug Administration’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices,