Anthropic was banned after refusing mass surveillance and autonomous weapons use, while OpenAI secured a Pentagon deal. Inside Washington’s AI showdown.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Mercury 2 introduces diffusion LLMs to text, delivering 10x faster speeds for AI agents and production workflows without sacrificing reasoning power.

A couple of years ago, a company called Cortical Labs released a video that showed a simplified version of Pong being played by a culture of human neurons in a Petri dish. The idea that a bunch of ...

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications ...

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

A cluster of human brain cells, integrated into a chip, learned to play the computer game _Doom_ in just a week, advancing ...

Arousal fluctuates continuously during wakefulness, yet how these moment-to-moment variations shape large-scale functional connectivity (FC) remains unclear. Here, we combined 7T fMRI with concurrent ...

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...