The singularity's week: 80-year-old cells reset, 25-year-old math disproved by AI labs
rand_longevity · x · 2026-10-29
randlongevity recaps a week of AI-driven breakthroughs: 80-year-old cells reset to under 20, two AI labs disproving the same 25-year-old math hypothesis on the same day, the genome of a 194-year-old tortoise, a real-time AI world simulator, and frontier AI at half the price.
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