- A Russian state bank has released an open-source GPT-3-scale model trained on Russian text, available at https://russiannlp.github.io/rugpt-demo/, contrasting with OpenAI’s closed approach.  
- University of Adelaide researchers report near-100 % efficient electrolytic splitting of natural seawater into green hydrogen using a cheap, non-precious catalyst in a commercial electrolyzer (news link shared).  
- Discussion questions the practical impact of seawater electrolysis, noting that desalination energy is ~1,000× lower than electrolysis energy, limiting usefulness except at small scales.  
- Concern is raised about possible chromium leaching into seawater from the new catalyst; trivalent chromium is considered less hazardous than hexavalent.  
- Brief debate frames transgender experience as a “mild preview” of how body-modification technologies may disrupt culturally universal gender roles once human biology becomes editable.