This week, Dylan dives into one of the wildest cross-sections of AI, neuroscience, gaming, and digital security yet. Ubisoft quietly unveiled a generative-AI gameplay system that turns NPCs into adaptive teammates with memories — and it might be the start of a new era in game design. We explore how your brain “zones out” to perform emergency maintenance, why AI models hallucinate in eerily similar ways, and the dangerous new concept of AI sandbagging that could redefine alignment research.

We also break down the crowdsourced app helping investigators locate victims of trafficking, the next wave of AI infrastructure rooted in “experience” data, a Harvard model diagnosing rare diseases from DNA, and fresh insights on why LLMs still can’t take a joke.

It’s a fast, curiosity-driven deep dive into the future barreling toward us.