- Schneider Electric’s transformer backlog is fully booked through 2030, highlighting a global choke-point for compute and energy infrastructure build-outs.  
- Modern OCR stack now spans Tesseract, Marker/Surya, OlmOCR, PaddleOCR, Gemini Flash, GPT-4.1, Claude, Reducto, Pulse, and RolmOCR—showing the rapid proliferation of vision-language models for document ingestion.  
- MouseMapper couples deep-learning image analysis with tissue clearing and light-sheet microscopy to perform whole-body disease phenotyping in mice, detailed in a 2024 BioRxiv pre-print.  
- A new wiki page on “reverse-engineering human brain memory engrams” and companion notes on “memory/knowledge distillation” were published at diyhpluswiki, framing open questions on how to extract and compress learned information from biological brains.  
- Discussion revisits 2015-era predictions that AGI would require a decade of manual knowledge-graph construction; participants now argue that large-scale internet pre-training effectively outsourced that labor.  
- Parallelized LLM coding agents (sub-agents in isolated dev environments) are emerging as a “meta” developer tool, though current workflows still demand heavy human review and sequential refinement.  
- Nudge, a trans-cranial ultrasound neuromodulation company, just closed a $100 M round, signaling renewed investor appetite for non-invasive BCI approaches.  
- A U.S. biotech CEO reports investor pressure to shift R&D to China, citing 2-year, $20 M timelines versus 4-year, $100 M U.S. equivalents—underscoring cost and speed arbitrage in life-science outsourcing.  
- Scott Alexander’s “Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection” post was circulated, reigniting debate on polygenic scoring, ethics, and near-term feasibility of large-scale embryo filtering.