Dementia Tech Breakthrough: Cambridge spinout Prema Cognition just closed an oversubscribed £550,000 round to expand PREMAZ, a memory test aimed at flagging dementia risk years earlier than today’s tools. De-extinction, With Doubts: Colossal Biosciences says it’s built an artificial eggshell system for hatching giant moa-scale birds, but scientists are pushing back on the lack of hard data. AI in the Prize Spotlight: The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is reviewing its process after speculation that a winning story may have been AI-generated—while separate reporting claims Granta published a likely AI-written piece. US Politics in Courtroom Mode: Acting AG Todd Blanche defended a $1.8B “anti-weaponization” settlement fund tied to Jan. 6 cases during Senate testimony. Health & Policy: Singapore’s first national climate adaptation plan is set to start with a risk stocktake (not solutions), and the UK is receiving experimental favipiravir supplies for a hantavirus outbreak linked to a cruise ship. Culture & Books: Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo is getting a Hebrew release via a BDS-aligned publisher, and the Mandalorian’s big-screen return keeps feeding the fandom machine.