In a move that is both fascinating and viscerally unsettling, AI world model company Odyssey took a simulation of a fruit fly's brain, Google's connectome map of a fly's actual neurons and connections, and placed it inside an AI-generated world. A simulated brain exploring a simulated reality.

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Status quo isn't an option. You can either add additional frictions (adding fees, make services worse, ban agents) or remove them (provide more services with AI help, redesign work to make access easier). Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16603

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A consequential choice will be made soon by government and companies as they are increasingly flooded with agentic AI inquiries that overcome the frictions that gated access (see the graphs - it has already started!) Two options: do you make services worse or better as a result?

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There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit:

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If guys who look like this are libs they leave absolutely no ambiguity, that’s why Alan Ritchson concludes every interview with “moreover, Stephen Miller must be put in a trebuchet”

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