- First-in-human trial announced for an AI-discovered drug candidate, marking a milestone in machine-learning-driven pharmaceutical development (link: https://scienceblog.com/526988/first-in-human-study-of-ai-discovered-drug/).  
- Discussion of scale limits in neural vs. integrated-circuit architectures: neuron somata range 4–100 µm, while “5 nm” IC features are ~1000× smaller, though the comparison is complicated because active 3-D IC stacking is still largely unavailable.  
- ArXiv paper on “Locally Testable Codes with constant rate, distance, and locality” shared as a potentially relevant advance for robust, low-overhead error correction in future brain–computer or distributed systems (link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04808).  
- Brief debate on what constitutes a realistic IC feature size, noting that commercial “5 nm” nodes do not actually contain literal 5 nm structures and that synapse-scale comparisons may be more appropriate than whole-neuron analogies.  
- Channel moderation noted that off-topic conspiracy or schizophrenic content is unwelcome, reaffirming focus on technical and scientific discourse.