- A pre-print on bioRxiv proposes implanting engineered, resource-hungry adipocytes that outcompete tumors for nutrients as a novel cancer-suppression strategy, prompting debate about whether a second, treatment-susceptible “replacement tumor” could be used to outpace an aggressive primary cancer.  
- Google released a new TPU hardware paper (arXiv 2304.01433) and the community noted that earlier TPUs already incorporated partial optical interconnects.  
- AgileRL (GitHub: AgileRL/AgileRL) was highlighted as a promising open-source framework for algorithmic advances in reinforcement learning.  
- A quantum-RF receiver based on Rydberg atoms was discussed; the Army Research Lab device covers 0–20 GHz with no traditional antenna, described in Phys. Rev. Applied 15, 014053 (2021).  
- Eric Drexler’s new post “Role Architectures: Applying LLMs to consequential tasks” on the AI Alignment Forum was praised for focusing on constructive AI-safety engineering rather than “disasturbating.”  
- Participants explored practical human-in-the-loop pipelines to accelerate transcript production: combining Whisper output with manual cues for paragraph breaks and speaker labels, plus new open-source Whisper-based speaker-diarization models.  
- TabFS—a FUSE filesystem that exposes browser tabs as Unix files—was demonstrated to allow piping JavaScript into live pages, enabling GPT-4-driven DOM manipulation and voice-controlled browsing experiments.  
- Home-energy hacking continued: a member reported adding an 800 Wp micro-inverter solar panel and noted that turnkey 3 kWh Pylontech lithium storage with inverter/charger has fallen below €2 k.