• A participant asked about the near-term impact of artificial intelligence on job demand, prompting a tongue-in-cheek reply that “AI will be doing all your shitposting for you.”

• kanzure shared a new paper titled “A microfabricated, 3D-sharpened silicon shuttle for insertion of flexible electrode arrays through dura mater into brain,” published in the Journal of Neural Engineering (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ab2b2e).

• fenn posted the freshly released Neuralink pre-print “An integrated brain-machine interface platform with thousands of channels,” noting that the PDF on bioRxiv (https://doi.org/10.1101/703801v1) contains the same material as the recent live-stream but in academic form, and observed that the only listed “authors” are “Elon Musk & Neuralink.”

• archels expressed disappointment that Neuralink is still pursuing electrode-based approaches, remarking that “electrodes are so 20th century” and had hoped the company would emphasize optical methods instead.

• jrayhawk quipped, “I never knew how much I would want a USB-enabled rat,” hinting at interest in high-bandwidth, consumer-grade neural interfaces for small-animal research or biohacking.