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 neurons in a dish can do anything is impressive enough, but it turns out that things have...

Whenever a new sci-fi work drops—especially in animation—it’s almost guaranteed to get stacked against the canon. Whether that’s mapping it onto Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Blade Runneror whatever other giants loom overhead, the new is reduced to a collage of influences by fans in the know rather than letting it wholly stand on its...

Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi have actively courted people who have insider information to place bets on their platforms, claiming that it serves as a “signal” in the noise. Turns out the companies from which that inside information is extracted are less thrilled with the idea. According to Wired, OpenAI has fired an employee...

President Donald Trump unleashed an all-caps screed against Anthropic on Friday, threatening criminal consequences for the AI company if it didn’t comply with his demands. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed up with his own tweet making clear that Anthropic will be deemed a “supply chain risk,” a designation that means any contractor with the U.S....