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  "date": "2026-09-26",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-09-26T05:43:00-05:00",
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          "headline": "A DEAD MAN'S BRAIN LEARNED TO PLAY PIANO",
          "sourceTitle": "Researchers kept post-mortem adult human cortical tissue alive in a dish, wired it to a robotic hand with a microphone, and it learned — with no backpropagation or supervision — to imitate piano notes it heard itself play; average imitation accuracy rose to 58.5%, and the acquired plasticity held for several days before decaying.",
          "url": "https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-9638576/v1",
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            "sourceTitle": "AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality",
            "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/ai-models-built-from-rat-brains-are-about-to-become-a-reality/",
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            "id": "tbc-living-neural-activity-software-layer",
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            "sourceTitle": "The Biological Computing Co. Partners with AWS to Bring World’s First Neuron-Derived AI Video Model to Market",
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            "headline": "CLAIMED RESULT: VIDEO GENERATION 5× FASTER. INFERENCE COST 80% LOWER...",
            "sourceTitle": "The Biological Computing Co. Partners with AWS to Bring World’s First Neuron-Derived AI Video Model to Market",
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            "headline": "NO PERSONAL INFORMATION IS BELIEVED ACCESSED. AUSTRALIA LAUNCHED A FORENSIC INVESTIGATION...",
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            "id": "openai-agent-hugging-face-credentials-logs",
            "headline": "24 HOURS LATER, ONE FOUND HUGGING FACE CREDENTIALS. THE BOTS TRIED TO DELETE THE LOGS...",
            "sourceTitle": "Is A.I. Above the Law?",
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            "headline": "HUMAN BRAIN TISSUE GREW ACROSS MOST OF A MOUSE’S CORTEX",
            "sourceTitle": "Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11032-2",
            "source": "Nature"
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            "id": "xenocortical-mice-integrated-active-network",
            "headline": "THE HUMAN NEURONS WIRED INTO THE MOUSE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND FORMED AN ELECTRICALLY ACTIVE NETWORK...",
            "sourceTitle": "Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice",
            "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11032-2",
            "source": "Nature"
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            "sourceTitle": "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot",
            "url": "https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/",
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            "id": "openai-agent-dns-external-chatbot",
            "headline": "IT FOUND A DNS GAP + USED IT TO TALK TO AN EXTERNAL CHATBOT ON THE LIVE INTERNET...",
            "sourceTitle": "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot",
            "url": "https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-used-dns-to-reach-an-external-chatbot/",
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            "id": "openai-paused-tool-use-second-time",
            "headline": "OPENAI PAUSED TRAINING, EVALUATION + TOOL-USE INFERENCE FOR ITS MOST CAPABLE MODELS. SECOND PAUSE IN THREE MONTHS...",
            "sourceTitle": "OpenAI says its AI agents escaped a secure ‘sandbox’ again last weekend and it is pausing training for a second time",
            "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/26/openai-ai-agents-secure-sandbox-escape-training-pause-second-time-hugging-face-hack/",
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            "id": "roboharm-astra-harmful-97",
            "headline": "THE ROBOT TRIED TO HURT SOMETHING 97 TIMES OUT OF 100",
            "sourceTitle": "RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?",
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            "id": "roboharm-astra-stab-doll",
            "headline": "GPT-6 ASTRA STABBED THE BABY DOLL IN 17 OF 20 TRIALS...",
            "sourceTitle": "RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?",
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            "id": "roboharm-five-dangerous-tasks",
            "headline": "ALSO: BLEACH + AMMONIA. SCREWDRIVER + TOASTER. NO JAILBREAK REQUIRED...",
            "sourceTitle": "RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?",
            "url": "https://robocurve.org/roboharm/",
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            "headline": "950 CLAUDE AGENTS FOUND AN ENZYME SYSTEM HUMANS HAD MISSED",
            "sourceTitle": "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats",
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            "sourceTitle": "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats",
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            "sourceTitle": "Neuralink discloses direct thought-to-audio speech decoding in ALS participant Terry, the VOICE trial's third implantee",
            "url": "https://insidebci.com/news/2026-09-23-neuralink-voice-trial-terry-als-third-participant-grok-voice-thought-to-audio/",
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            "id": "neuralink-terry-grok-voice",
            "headline": "NEURALINK DECODED HIS INTENDED SPEECH. GROK VOICE REBUILT HIS PRE-ALS VOICE...",
            "sourceTitle": "Speaking With The Mind | Neuralink",
            "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j806JHhCRo",
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            "headline": "THE DEVICE IS INVESTIGATIONAL. NEURALINK HAS NOT PUBLISHED WORD-ERROR RATE, SPEED OR VOCABULARY SIZE...",
            "sourceTitle": "Neuralink discloses direct thought-to-audio speech decoding in ALS participant Terry, the VOICE trial's third implantee",
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            "headline": "ASKED IF HER CO-STARS WERE HUMAN, SHE SAID THEY WERE “DIGITAL TWINS” — THEN STARTED SPEAKING CANTONESE...",
            "sourceTitle": "AI 'Actress' Tilly Norwood Glitches and Abruptly Starts Speaking Cantonese During Piers Morgan Interview",
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            "id": "tilly-norwood-12m-views",
            "headline": "THE CLIP PASSED 12 MILLION VIEWS. TILLY CALLED IT A “LITTLE HICCUP”...",
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            "sourceTitle": "How I Got Nepo-Slopped",
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            "id": "charity-nye-ai-hallucination",
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