- A Dutch think-tank checklist for Western researchers collaborating with Chinese universities was circulated, highlighting geopolitical considerations in open science.  
- Andreessen Horowitz’s move to restructure itself as a registered investment adviser—rather than a traditional VC fund—was flagged as a signal of deeper shifts in tech-funding models.  
- Julia Galef’s 2017 essay and Julian Savulescu’s 2018 follow-up were revisited, arguing that once safe, parents will have a moral obligation to use embryo selection for traits such as IQ and self-control to maximize children’s life prospects.  
- A Frontiers in Neuroscience paper on “micro-tissue engineered living electrodes” was shared, describing soft, biologically integrated neural interfaces that may outperform rigid implants.  
- Bloomberg reported that Chinese labs are ordering more than 17,000 CRISPR-edited mice per year, illustrating the scale and speed of China’s functional-genomics infrastructure.  
- Discussion of micron-scale archival storage referenced the Lunar Library project (a 30-million-page archive on a nickel disk bound for the Moon) and NanoRosetta’s commercial service that laser-etches photos or text into nickel at 300,000 dpi for millennia-long preservation.