AI Replicates Decades of Neuroscience, Maps Brain Regions Solo
Researchers then replicated decades of classic neuroscience experiments entirely inside the software. No scanner, no human subjects. The model correctly identified the brain's face recognition center, language network, and emotional processing regions on its own.
Meta AI Predicts Brain Activity More Accurately than Scans
Meta's new AI can predict your brain better than a brain scan. TRIBE v2 is a foundation model trained on 1,000+ hours of brain imaging data from 720 people. You feed it a video, sound clip, or text, and it predicts: > Which...
AI-Driven Dairy Startup Halter Hits $2B Valuation
Halter now manages nearly 650,000 cows, and is currently raising at a $2B valuation. Half the world's habitable land is farmland. This is AI being applied to one of the oldest industries on earth and I think we're going to see...
AI Cow Collars Turn Farming Into Billion-Dollar Industry
An AI cow collar just created a billion-dollar company. Farmers draw boundaries on a phone app, and the collars guide cows using sound and vibration. It works by collecting over 6,000 data points per min, feeding ML models that track grazing patterns,...
Google AI Predicts Flash Floods 24‑hours Early, Saving Lives
Google's new AI can predict flash floods 24 hours before they strike. How it works: > Uses Gemini to extract confirmed flood locations and times from global news > Builds a dataset of past events that never formally existed. > That dataset feeds a...
Open‑Source 3D‑Printed Robotic Hand Costs $2K
This robotic hand can be 3D printed by anyone and assembled in under 8 hours. Researchers at ETH Zurich created the Orca hand, fully open-sourced with artificial bones and tendons. For context, advanced robotic hands cost over $100,000 and require constant maintenance... Orca...
Braided Robotic Hands Cut Costs, Enable Rapid Customization
This robotic hand can weave itself together in minutes. Allonic developed a process that "braids" robot bodies around a 3D-printed skeleton in a single automated step. The tech draws from the textile industry, using braided fibers instead of traditional mechanical joints and...
Paper-Thin Robot Squeezes 3mm G
South Korean researchers built a paper-thin robot that squeezes through 3mm gaps and lifts 70x (!) its weight. The flexible robotic "sheet" mimicks myosin, the protein that powers muscle contractions in your body. Inside the sheet are dozens of microscopic air chambers...
NATO Deploys AI‑Controlled Cockroach Drones for Recon
NATO is testing live cockroaches as AI-powered spy drones. Incredible AI engineering, but also something I kinda wish I hadn't learned about: > Swarm Bio-tactics wired real cockroaches with electronic backpacks containing AI hardware, radios, cameras, and microphones. > Cockroaches are steered by...
First Transatlantic Fiber Cable Resurfaces Amid AI Bandwidth Race
Fun fact: The first transatlantic internet cable is being pulled off the ocean floor right now. Almost no one knows it's happening. TAT-8 went live in 1988. First fiber-optic cable to connect Europe and the US. Isaac Asimov called it a "maiden voyage...
Gemini 3 Unveiled
Google just released Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model yet. I caught up with Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, to ask about: -Gemini 3 and Google’s AI strategy -Google's new Antigravity tool -Medical-grade AI Here's what he said:
Founders Faked AI Notetaking to Bootstrap Unicorn
This story is insane. The founders of Fireflies AI (now worth $1B+) pretended to be an AI notetaker before the tech existed. The founders would: > Join meetings on mute as "Fred from Fireflies" > Take notes by hand while sitting silently > Send the...
Hiring AI‑Tool Tester & Writer for Growing Platform
We're hiring someone to get paid to play with AI tools all day. (Not kidding!) The Rundown is growing fast (2M+ readers), and we're looking for another writer who's obsessed with AI to join us. Your job: > Test every new AI tool that...
AI Coaches Will Transform Preventative Health in Decade
AI coaching is going to revolutionize preventative health Whoop now tracks bloodwork and biomarkers, combining with sleep, strain, and recovery data for personalized AI plans It's just the start, but in 10 years everyone will probably have a personal AI coach/doctor that's...
Altman: Early Sora Release Prepares Society for Deepfakes
I asked Sam Altman if he's worried about watermark removers on Sora. Everyone's seen the unfiltered Jake Paul videos with no watermark (generated by Sora) going viral on socials... So what's the pull for creators to enable face cameos with that risk? Sam's...
