Hasan Piker confirms his UK visa has been revoked after pressure from pro-Israel groups
He was scheduled to speak at the Oxford Union, SXSW London, and to interview Yanis Varoufakis
@jimfornyc @hasanthehun I’ve seen a lot of of your posts hating on @hasanthehun because you think he’s a performative leftist, when in reality, his clothing brand and podcast are co-ops, in the clothing brand only works with unions in American made sources. But you won’t ever talk about that.
@jimfornyc @br0sferatu@hasanthehun What’s the point of fighting the same side that you’re on when we are currently dealing with Trump? Just stay focused and try to actually be for the bigger picture right now.
Hasan Piker interviewed multiple Cuban doctors on the island today and found out they have a working treatment for Alzheimer’s. But because of the US Embargo, American citizens can’t even receive it.
“We are killing our own citizens by refusing to allow American companies to even pay for Cuban medicine”
Hasan Piker has launched on the Nuestra América convoy en route to Cuba
He will be live streaming from Havana tomorrow, bringing food, medical aid, and solar panels to the country alongside @ProgIntl
Hasan Piker has launched on the Nuestra América convoy en route to Cuba
He will be live streaming from Havana tomorrow, bringing food, medical aid, and solar panels to the country alongside @ProgIntl
@hasanthehun Glad to know the Iranian vs the Axis 2.0 war is going well, really hoping no false flags happen on the west coast so my mom’s cruise ship isn’t in the cross fire. That would swell 👏🏽
We’re spending $200B+ a year on data centers to power AI. One company raised $11M, grew human brain cells on a chip, and the cells taught themselves to play a 3D shooter in a week.
Cortical Labs grew 200,000 human neurons on a silicon chip and taught them to play Doom. The cells navigate, target enemies, and fire weapons in real time. Their previous game, Pong, took 18 months on older hardware. Doom took a week. An independent developer with zero biotech experience built the integration using a Python API. The neurons did the rest.
That compression from 18 months to one week tells you everything about where this is going.
Here’s what the “can it run Doom” crowd is missing: each CL1 unit costs $35,000. A full 30-unit server rack draws 850 to 1,000 watts total. Your brain runs on 20 watts. A single GPU cluster training an LLM can draw megawatts. The energy economics of biological compute are orders of magnitude better than silicon, and that gap scales.
The investor list tells you who’s paying attention. Horizons Ventures, Blackbird, and In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture arm. In-Q-Tel doesn’t fund science projects. They fund intelligence infrastructure. 115 units started shipping in 2025.
Cortical Labs is now selling “Wetware-as-a-Service” through the Cortical Cloud. Developers can deploy code to living neurons remotely without touching a lab. They’re pricing access at the level of a software subscription while the hardware runs on real human brain cells derived from adult skin and blood samples.
The Doom demo is marketing. The platform play is a bet that biological neurons will eventually outperform silicon at exactly the tasks AI struggles with most: real-time adaptation under uncertainty, learning from minimal data, and processing ambiguity without brute-force compute.
The question was never “can it run Doom.” The question is what happens when it can run everything else.
🔥🚨BREAKING: A petri dish filled with human brain cells just learned to how to play DOOM
Scientists at Cortical Labs have successfully trained a cluster of approximately 200,000 living human neurons, grown on a microelectrode array chip, to play the classic 3D video game DOOM.