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Connections

Each line is a relationship Brain Rot Report drew in a specific piece, in that piece's words.

• Cisco

  Corporations are outsourcing frontier AI R&D to the academic and startup ecosystem they simultaneously defund by eliminating internal talent

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• Runway

  Cinematic thinking is structurally similar to the verifier-guided simulation that AI researchers say world models need

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Coverage

• World Models and the Outsider Advantage May 15, 2026
• Record Revenue, Pink Slips: Tech's New Math May 14, 2026