• De-extinction milestone: A synthetic-biology company has reportedly generated the first elephant induced-pluripotent stem cells, a critical step toward resurrecting the woolly mammoth and, as joked, potentially producing “mammoth burgers.”  
• Ethical tension noted: Participants highlighted the irony of bringing back an animal driven extinct by over-hunting only to immediately commercialize it as food.  
• LLM manipulation risk: L29Ah observed that large-language models are even more susceptible than humans to persuasion via loaded presuppositions, raising concerns about prompt-injection and bias amplification.  
• Moral-analysis experiment: kanzure shared a ChatGPT conversation link (https://chat.openai.com/share/4a5696d1-2eeb-405d-8c6e-3c3fbc753a8f) exploring the ethics of a tweet by Tyler Alterman, illustrating how AI is being used for rapid normative reasoning.  
• Transgenic Human Germline Alternatives Project (thGAP): az.bioart circulated a 2024 booklet (https://ia804609.us.archive.org/10/items/thGAP/thGAP_booklet_screen_text.pdf) outlining open-source proposals for safe, non-heritable human-germline interventions as an alternative to permanent germline edits.