- A European open-source 130 nm BiCMOS analog AI-chip project was abruptly cancelled by the foundry; an inside source claimed the order came from national-security authorities who are blocking any open or uncontrollable hardware efforts.  
- The incident prompted discussion of “bedroom fabs” and low-volume chip-making as the only remaining path for independent AI hardware, with participants asserting that nanotechnology progress is now being throttled by military classification.  
- A policy paper on AI radicalization and counter-radicalization was circulated: https://www.icct.nl/publication/radicalization-and-counter-radicalization-potential-artificial-intelligence.  
- The 70-billion-parameter open-source biomedical LLM “Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B” was shared: https://huggingface.co/aaditya/Llama3-OpenBioLLM-70B.  
- Conversations turned to DIY biology bottlenecks: participants referenced the 1982 hand-pipette DNA-synthesis protocol and joked about doing PCR with “three pots and an oven top” as examples of ultra-low-cost methods.  
- A proposed workflow for gene-therapy prototyping was outlined: identify hits from microarray or single-cell RNA-seq → package into a vector → test combination dosing, treating all factor therapy as variations on this theme.  
- Ars Technica’s report on a two-second fusion-power breakthrough was linked: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/two-seconds-of-hope-for-fusion-power/.