- A “text zoom” concept was floated: an LLM-driven interface that dynamically elaborates any passage the user is reading, akin to Engelbart’s 1960s StretchText / NLS “text-folding” but now auto-generated by language models.  
- PropheticAI unveiled “MORPHEUS-1,” claimed to be the first multi-modal generative ultrasonic transformer; it uses a multi-element phased-array headset to induce and stabilize lucid dreams, with beta access promised for Spring 2024.  
- Discussion of the ultrasound hardware noted the open question of transducer type and whether the same array could be repurposed for brain imaging; a linked pre-print (medRxiv 2023.12.22.23300243) was suggested as the technical basis.  
- He Jiankui (of CRISPR-baby notoriety) announced that a U.S. investor has offered $1 M to fund a dual-country startup focused on germline gene editing for Alzheimer’s disease, with follow-up meetings planned in Singapore.  
- Facebook/Meta released the “LLM Compiler” family of models, pretrained on compiler IR and assembly; it reportedly emulates compiler behavior perfectly 20 % of the time and is being benchmarked on code-size optimization and decompilation tasks, with models and datasets posted on Hugging Face.