The First Brain Was Just Uploaded To A Computer

In March 2026, a company called Eon posted five words: we've uploaded a fruit fly. A copy of a dead fly's brain, rebuilt by AI, walks inside a computer in San Francisco. It cleans itself. It tastes virtual sugar through its feet. None of it was possible until AI learned to do what no human team ever could: trace a brain, neuron by neuron, from millions of microscope images. And in September 2026, that same AI breakthrough delivered something even bigger: the first complete wiring diagram of an a