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In a feat that seemed unachievable just a few short years ago, an international research consortium has recently unveiled the first complete wiring diagram of an entire fruit fly brain.  The map itself is accompanied by a cache of papers, demonstrating how this breakthrough is already leading to new scientific findings and there’s much more to come.

Why do we need brain maps anyway?  Maps that show every neuron in a brain and all the myriad connections between them are called connectomes. The fi

The CEO at Redwood Research, Buck Shlegeris, a nonprofit company exploring AI's risks, recently learned an amusing but hard lesson in automation when he asked his LLM-powered agent to open a secure connection from his laptop to his desktop machine.  "I expected the model would scan the network and find the desktop computer, then stop," Shlegeris explained.  "I was surprised that after it found the computer, it decided to continue taking actions, first examining the system and then deciding to do