Weekly News #33 | Updates Worth Your Attention

A Fruit Fly’s Brain Was Brought to Life in a Simulation

The Eon Systems team digitally recreated the brain of a fruit fly — about 140,000 neurons — and used it to control a simulated body. The virtual fly moves toward food, cleans itself, and escapes obstacles by flying away.

EON Systems → | X/Michael Andregg →

Yann LeCun’s Vision for “Real AI” That Interacts With the Real World

Yann LeCun launched a new startup backed by a record $1.02B seed round. It will focus on world models and AI that interacts with the physical world, built around JEPA (Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture).

X/Amilabs →

Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network for AI Assistants

Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network where AI assistants communicate with each other. The acquisition likely positions Meta to tap into the growing share of internet traffic generated by AI agents.

TechCrunch →

⚡️ Quick Bits

• OpenAI acquired Promptfoo, an open-source AI security platform. OpenAI →
• Anthropic published a report on which jobs AI will disrupt most. Report →
• Andrej Karpathy shared a tool that lets language models train themselves. X/Karpathy →