• The channel circulated two new academic analyses of the He Jiankui CRISPR-baby case: an Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences article (doi:10.1093/jlb/lsz010) and a Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal paper (doi:10.1080/15265161.2019.1626642), both dissecting legal and ethical implications of human germline editing.

• A public controversy erupted over transhumanist branding: Humanity+ (reportedly Epstein-funded and facing leadership scandals) is allegedly threatening legal action against unlicensed use of the “H+” symbol, prompting the U.S. Transhumanist Party to abandon the mark and solicit new iconography (transhumanist-party.org/2019/08/18/transhumanists-need-new-symbols/).

• Discussion of astrobiology transfer included a Twitter thread by @DrPhiltill arguing that tardigrades embedded in Earth-originating meteorites could survive low-velocity (≈2.4 km/s) impacts on the Moon, referencing the 2013 Nature Geoscience paper “Projectile remnants in central peaks of lunar impact craters” (nature.com/articles/ngeo1828).

• A moral position against “leveling-down equality” was quoted: “The fact that some people cannot or will not experience lives of the most well-being is not a good reason to prevent others from enjoying better lives.”

• Cerebras Systems unveiled its Wafer-Scale Engine, described as the largest computer chip ever built—larger than an iPad—designed to power AI workloads from autonomous vehicles to surveillance systems (BBC technology-49395577).