• 51-year-old cryopreserved sheep semen (from 1968) produced live-birth rates equal to 12-month-frozen samples, and a 2013 paper documents successful human births from semen stored for 40 years, illustrating the long-term viability of germplasm banking for reproductive longevity and genetic preservation.

• SpaceX’s Starlink deployment was live-streamed; participants predicted that within a year the cadence will reach ~400 satellites per launch with very short inter-launch gaps, underscoring the rapid normalization of ultra-dense LEO constellations.

• Discussion of a TechCrunch article titled “The post-exponential era of AI and Moore’s Law” concluded that we remain far from theoretical compute limits; the bottleneck is not physics but our current inability to architect superior processors.

• A request for machine-learning algorithms that more closely emulate neurobiology led to pointers to Numenta (Jeff Hawkins’ HTM theory) and the Human Brain Project’s large-scale neural simulations, followed by debate on whether further biological mimicry is useful given the deliberate divergence of modern ANNs for engineering efficiency.

• A ResearchGate survey on “Spintronic Architectures for Processing-in-Memory and Neural Networks” was shared as a candidate hardware path to brain-like, ultra-low-power neuromorphic systems.

• A Dazed Digital feature on gene selection, enhancement, and “designer babies” was circulated, highlighting mainstream media coverage of imminent germline-editing applications.

• Participants noted the proliferation of neuroscience conference names such as “Neuronus” and “Neurizons,” reflecting branding trends in the field.

• crypto51.app, a site that tracks the cost of 51 % attacks on blockchains, was reported as broken for months; the GitHub repo (tdickman/crypto51) and howmanyconfs.com were suggested as partial alternatives.