Ultraviolet is the network made with L2 RGB smart contracts by the creators of RGB - @pandoraprime_ch and @dr_orlovsky It comes with zk-STARK provers, post-blockchain scalability layer 1 Prime, AI agents & data availability layer Storm Follow @UVioletAI along the road of building most decentralized and scalable system in the world

An extraordinary @Nature paper has just landed from the lab of @Sergiu_P_Pasca at @Stanford - led by Konstantin Kaganovsky. They have found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells. This human-derived cortical graft integrates deeply with the host nervous system, supporting organised neural activity and behaviour. This study is a milestone in synthetic biology and chimera research. It has the potential to generate multiple medical breakthroughs by providing an enhanced biological model of human brain tissue that allows behavioural as well as neural and genetic assays. The Stanford team have been exceptionally thorough and proactive in addressing ethical concerns that comes from this frontier work. But their pioneering work nonetheless raises many open questions: are the xenocortical mice conscious? Do they have any human-like properties of consciousness or cognition? @NitaFarahany and I will be addressing some of these questions in a forthcoming commentary - where we'll also offer an ethically-informed roadmap to guide this important research as it progresses. In this context, "pacing the frontier" really does make sense 😉 Read the Stanford @nature paper here, and buckle up. It's wild. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

“AND THE ENTIRE LIQUID FEDERATION VOTED TO LET THEM” Absolutely not. I only discovered after the hack that SideSwap was operating the swaps by hooking the PAK up to an online backend. Many of us were totally unaware as well. I always treated and kept the PAK as cold-storage material. Peg-out can only be done by the PAK owner. Three or four years ago I asked SideSwap not to call the feature in their mobile wallet “Peg-in” and “Peg-out.” At the time I thought it was a swap against their inventory, and I was under the impression they were misleading users. I just discovered now that they were right. They literally bypassed the central pillar of the federation’s security.

>Yemeni weapons cell used claude code to build guided rocket on a phone flight computer, a ballistic missile aiming past 2,000 km, and a hypersonic glide variant. When they test-fired the rocket… it failed. Within hours they were back to claude asking why

Researchers forced Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Kimi to play Civilization VI to completion. What they discovered exposes a terrifying blind spot in modern AI. Playing a massive 4X strategy game to the end requires something entirely different: long-haul execution. Juggling economics, science, military, and diplomacy across hundreds of turns. The goal was to see how AI handles multi-step complexity. Instead, they watched the models repeatedly implode due to two bizarre psychological flaws. Flaw number one: Total situational blindness. In one-third of the games the AIs lost, an enemy was actively marching toward an obvious victory right in front of them. The data was sitting right there. The model simply failed to look. Flaw number two: Severe organizational ADHD. The AIs were great at making grand strategic lists. They would meticulously write down: "Next step, build a city." Then, 10 turns later, they completely forgot they wrote it and did nothing. The researchers realized this isn't a lack of raw intelligence. It’s an allocation failure. We assume that if an AI can ace a math test, it can manage a complex, multi-day project. It can't. When tasks stretch across a long horizon, the model's internal attention drifts. It loses the thread of its own intentions. It drops long-term goals for immediate noise. Everyone is racing to hand over complex workflows, financial portfolios, and autonomous operations to AI agents. We think the bottleneck is making them smarter. but no. The bottleneck is making them remember what they were doing ten minutes ago.

GPT-6 Astra is the new SOTA in agentic CAD. A true step change in what AI can do in mechanical design

Every ∂ you write was first used by a hunted nobleman who died on a prison floor two days after they caught him. Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743–1794), was the Enlightenment mathematician who treated society like a problem that reason could solve. In 1770 he used the rounded “d” - today’s ∂ - in a memoir on partial difference equations. He wrote that dz and ∂z would stand for two partial differences of z, or else a total differential versus a partial one. It was a clean typesetting fix, not a grand invention. Legendre later wrote the familiar ∂u/∂x in 1786 and then dropped it. Jacobi brought the symbol back in 1841 and it stuck. When the Terror turned on the Girondins, Condorcet hid for months and finished his famous Sketch of humanity’s endless progress. Arrested in March 1794, he was found dead two days later in Bourg-la-Reine prison. Official cause: stroke. Many said he swallowed poison he carried to cheat the guillotine. No one has ever proved which. The curly d outlived the man who first reached for it.

AI systems are programs with no consciousness, no sentience, no subjective experience, no intelligence. They are incredible tools & massively amplify our abilities using models trained on all of current human knowledge. They are not magic & they don’t have goals.