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X 1 month ago 51 ● 4 sources
A fruit-fly brain connectome was trained to play Beat Saber using replay data and reinforcement learning. The training specifically uses replay signals so movements that score well are reinforced. The next training stage aims to reduce reliance on replays so the brain model can react on its own.
DOOMFLY 1 month ago 48 ● 4 sources
A reconstructed male fruit-fly brain controller was wired to the Doom game by mapping game pixels to inferred retinal inputs and fixed MaleCNS v1.0 connectivity. It used 25,582,938 connections and 124,177,617 synaptic contacts. The setup produced game control without adding enemy navigation or aiming policies, and the results were constrained by approximation limits (unvalidated vision mappings and uncertain transmitter signs) while learning was not induced by stimulus delivery alone.
The Verge 1 month ago 40
Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco pulled over after detecting riders with a firearm and called police, leading to two arrests of juveniles. Police took the riders to juvenile hall after they were found with a loaded AR-style ghost gun. Waymo says the incident was a terms-of-service violation involving a firearm detected by the vehicle, and it is treating this as a safety/behavior enforcement trigger for its vehicles.
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16 October 2026
AI finance took center stage: the IMF warns that the build-out’s most immediate market risk isn’t model capability, it’s leverage. In a review of 14 publicly disclosed deals since 2023, the fund found hyperscalers backing AI with about $650 billion in debt against roughly $300 billion in equity, while committing to spend $1.4 trillion going forward. The prescription is blunt—limit sector leverage and liquidity risk through sector-specific capital requirements and constraints on bank lending concentration—because when funding rests on borrowed money, sentiment swings turn into funding crunches.
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