Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

Why This Caught My Eye Pure sci-fi reality. Human brain cells integrated into a silicon chip, and, of course, it runs Doom. This is mind-blowing and somehow mundane at the same time. Yet it shows the future may not be what we think it is.

March 12, 2026 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen

The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload

Why This Caught My Eye Scientists mapped the brain of a fruit fly and built an emulator from it. That emulated brain behaves like a fruit fly. The distinction matters: this isn’t a trained simulation that approximates brain behavior. It’s an emulated copy. That’s a different and much weirder category of thing entirely

March 12, 2026 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen