Nope this is legit.
Even polymarket had a post about this.
NeuraLink projects like this are not FDA approved but done via patient's explicit approval to bear any outcomes during/after the procedure.
Old news in 2012. Tech was already there with various mechanisms of interpretation. Turning nerve signals of sounds in to words on a screen, Stanford university tried turning handwriting nerve signals in to words. This is like apple fanatics behaving iphone fold is the first folding phone in the world.