- CEA’s WEST tokamak set a new world record by sustaining a fusion plasma for 1,337 seconds (≈22 minutes), a milestone noted as “1337 seconds of fusion.”  
- Discussion questioned the strategic value of the ITER project, estimating it as “a few billion over 20 years” and noting U.S. reluctance because the funding largely benefits non-U.S. partners.  
- A LessWrong post titled “How to Make Superbabies” was shared; participants remarked that the described technique mirrors one previously discussed in the channel but without attribution.  
- A PLOS ONE study was highlighted showing that monkeys can correctly match pictures to written words, suggesting unexpected symbolic processing abilities in non-human primates.  
- Roche’s live-stream on “sequencing by expansion” was circulated as a real-time technical resource for advanced DNA-sequencing methods.  
- Concern was voiced that research on the genetics of intelligence may be methodologically compromised by fears of racial implications, potentially rendering published findings unreliable.