- A tweet from Jan-Willem Veening was shared noting that posting preprints on bioRxiv can directly help win grants, with reviewers citing the preprint as evidence that proposed aims are likely to succeed.  
- A thread by @neurowitz was highlighted asserting that “progress toward AGI will be rate-limited by progress in neuroscience,” framing neuroscience as the bottleneck for artificial general intelligence.  
- hardmaru’s tweet showcased a project in which a 3 000-unit LSTM recurrent neural network was trained to decrypt WWII Enigma ciphertext with >96 % accuracy, accompanied by a blog write-up and demo video.  
- Discussion of “world peace” as an existential-risk/AGI goal critiqued the concept as potentially totalitarian; the analogy of turning dissenters into paperclips was used to illustrate coercion risks.  
- The U.S. SEC released an investigative report (linked) concluding that DAO tokens are securities, prompting channel speculation about the timing relative to a prior-day CFTC announcement.  
- A Hacker News “Show HN” post introduced “AI Grant,” a non-profit, distributed AI research lab offering grants and cloud API credits to open AI projects; the link was circulated as a funding opportunity.