- **ROCm port of GPTQ-for-LLaMa** – A GitHub repo (https://github.com/WapaMario63/GPTQ-for-LLaMa-ROCm) now lets users run quantized LLaMa models on AMD GPUs via ROCm, breaking the previous Nvidia-only barrier.  
- **Molecular nanotechnology roadmap debate** – Participants sketched a boot-strapping path: achieve 1 atom/sec positional control → build a closed, self-replicating diamondoid tool-set → scale to massively parallel assemblers; cumulene strands and enzyme-like active centers were floated as early targets.  
- **RFdiffusion released** – The inverse-folding model that designs protein sequences for a given 3-D structure or binding site is now open-source (https://github.com/RosettaCommons/RFdiffusion) and usable via ColabFold; current lab hit-rate ≈ 1 %.  
- **Volume electron microscopy techniques** – A GRC conference listing (https://www.grc.org/volume-electron-microscopy-conference/2023/) catalogs emerging 3-D nano-imaging methods (SBF-SEM, FIB-SEM, mAT, pFIB, GridTape TEM, etc.) relevant to high-resolution brain and tissue mapping.  
- **Critique of “AI safety” discourse** – Extended discussion framed prominent figures (Eliezer Yudkowsky, EA/FTX circles) as running a millenarian cult with inner/outer doctrines, group living, and apocalyptic recruitment narratives; accelerationist counter-arguments were voiced.  
- **Open letter on AI progress** – LAION’s petition (https://laion.ai/blog/petition/) calls for maintaining research tempo while enforcing transparency and safety, offered as an alternative to moratorium demands.  
- **Whisper-based multi-speaker diarization** – A new tool (https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/whisper-diarization) was shared for transcribing and labeling distinct speakers in long audio, easing manual transcript labor.