- A new U.S. health-focused ARPA, ARPA-H, was formally announced at arpa-h.gov, adding a high-risk/high-reward funding arm to the biomedical ecosystem.  
- Protein-design startup Cradle (cradle.bio) was highlighted as an emerging tool for AI-driven protein engineering.  
- Posterity.life/automations/ was shared as a service that lets users script post-mortem tasks—“get things done from the afterlife.”  
- Greg Bear’s death prompted discussion of his 1985 novel “Blood Music,” noted for its influential premise of engineered cellular intelligence.  
- A contrarian Twitter thread by @mattparlmer re-examined the Theranos saga, arguing that Elizabeth Holmes was targeted after pivoting toward competing with incumbents LabCorp and Quest, sparking debate over media narratives versus documented facts.  
- Saharan/GraphSynth on GitHub was mentioned as a graph-rewriting toolkit that differs from earlier versions remembered by participants.