Amazing maybe, but not really news. Monkeys could pilot the Mercury capsule, too. With several months of intense training, you can make them do a lot of tasks involving pattern recognition. Reliable brain-sensing, on the other hand, is news.
As someone else in the comments pointed out, they didn't transcribe it by reading it. The right letter to type was lit up on the screen. (The article mentions this, but doesn't emphasize it too well.)
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"Look at me, I can type 100 wpm... Why would anyone ever want to do this?"
Why does the value always need to be explained? Of course the value is explained in the article, but you just read the headline?