RealityCheckFact check

Checked reel · 30 Oct 2026

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Every single news story in this video actually happened.

Jacob Coxon really did quit Anthropic and OpenAI, warning on X that AI development is moving too fast and could threaten humanity by the end of the decade. Dario Amodei published his essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," which Sam Altman and Elon Musk both publicly supported. Meanwhile, researchers at Google and Janelia open-sourced a full fruit fly brain map (MaleCNS), leading to viral projects where people ran it in Minecraft, Rubik's cube solvers, and Bitcoin trading. Finally, Neuralink released footage of an ALS patient named Terry using their N1 implant to say "I love you" to his wife in his reconstructed pre-ALS voice. The video is completely accurate.

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