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A FLY HAS BEEN UPLOADED

The entire neuronal diagram of the fruit-fly brain was mapped in 2024. Later research showed the map can be used to predict behavior. The brain map has now been uploaded into a digital environment. It's not a simulation - the fly's 'sensors' are being activated by the digital environment and the neurons are responding. The digital fly appears to behave in the digital environment in reasonably fly-like ways. A video that explains the yet-published experiment (with footage of the digital fly) is available in the article.

HOW STRIPE'S MINIONS SHIP 1,300 PRS A WEEK

Investments in developer productivity can provide unexpected dividends when agents are included in the workflow. Stripe's Minions work in isolated environments with hybrid orchestration that mixes deterministic guardrails with agentic flexibility. Curated context needs agents with the right information without overwhelming them, and fast feedback loops help to iterate. Each layer is necessary, and none alone is sufficient.

THE FUTURE OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WITH ANTHROPIC

Better coding tools produce better models, which produce better coding tools. The bottleneck has moved to managing long-horizon tasks and deploying agents in regulated settings. The human role is shifting to planning, evaluating, and steering. Enterprise adoption is gated by permissioning, sandboxing, and regulatory caution more than by model capability. Slop and convergence are real concerns, and context remains unsolved.

NVIDIA SOFTWARE AIMS TO BRING OPENCLAW TO THE ENTERPRISE

Nvidia has unveiled a new software toolkit that helps businesses more safely build and run autonomous agents with the OpenClaw platform. OpenClaw allows developers to build autonomous agents that can plan and execute tasks on their own using subagents that can tackle specialized tasks, access local file systems, and delegate. Nvidia's NemoClaw is designed to help agents run safely in an enterprise context within contained virtual environments. Nvidia is working with OpenClaw's creator to make agents more trustworthy, scalable, and accessible.

APPLE'S AIRPODS MAX 2 BRING H2 CHIP, BOOSTED ANC IN APRIL FOR $549

Apple's AirPods Max 2 features an updated H2 chip that makes active noise canceling up to 1.5 times more effective compared to the original AirPods Max. It should also make transparency mode more natural due to a new digital signal processing algorithm. The H2 chip also adds support for adaptive audio and Conversation Awareness, a feature that automatically lowers the volume when someone starts talking to you. It also adds support for live translation and voice isolation. The AirPods Max 2 will be available for preorder on March 25 for an early April launch for $549.

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