- Two new low-cost wafer-shuttle services for custom silicon were shared: wafer.space and chipfoundry.io, offering alternatives to TinyTapeout for open-hardware ASIC projects.  
- Parakeet-TDT-0.6b, a speech-recognition model on the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard, was praised for “ridiculously fast” inference and high accuracy, with speculation that aggressive batching is the key.  
- A Russian-language ONNX ASR model (github.com/istupakov/onnx-asr) was highlighted for multilingual use, and participants noted the uncanny ability of modern ASR systems to translate spoken input into a target language on the fly.  
- FutureHouse released “ether0,” an open-weights chemistry LLM optimized for scientific reasoning and drug-like molecule design; the model is available on Hugging Face and was observed to misclassify the fictional compound “reductamol” as a chemical weapon.  
- GitHub’s takedown of the ik_llamacpp repository—apparently triggered by bot-driven starring—was cited as a cautionary example of centralized platforms deleting open-source work without warning.  
- A parallel warning was issued about U.S. export-control name-matching that can block electronics purchases from distributors like Digi-Key if a buyer’s name resembles entries on the denied-party list.