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Sam Altman told OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing down AI development — a striking admission from the man who has pushed harder than almost anyone to accelerate it. Whether that reflects genuine caution or a strategic repositioning amid growing regulatory pressure remains an open question worth watching closely.
Meanwhile, OpenAI is also making headlines for less reassuring reasons. The company claims to have solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems, a result that would normally draw celebration. Instead, many mathematicians are watching with unease, questioning whether OpenAI is more interested in winning headlines than advancing human understanding of science.
And in a story that is equal parts fascinating and unsettling, software engineers took Google's complete neural map of an adult male fruit fly's brain and used it to play Doom, Mario sixty-four, and Beat Saber. The fly's connectome — roughly one hundred thousand neurons — was simulated in software and then pointed at a video game controller. It performed surprisingly well, raising real questions about what we mean when we talk about intelligence and where this kind of research leads next.
Stay curious out there. Tech Beat out.
