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Uplifting the rest of the biosphere

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Welcome to December 11, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Machine intelligence is turned on non-human minds and on the substitution of animal experiments by engineered tissue.

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2026-08-29: A Jurassic soundscape is reconstructed from 165-million-year-old wings

2026-08-02: A system recognizes wild monkeys and pays correct answers in dried banana

2026-06-25: A town becomes the first in Canada to recognize trees as living beings

2026-06-01: A company seeks to release 32 million treated mosquitoes

2026-05-23: Continuous listening catches pain that an animal instinctively masks

2026-05-23: Non-human cognition is the first domain where the corpus must be created

2026-05-11: Plant seeds are found to wake from dormancy to the vibration of raindrops

2026-05-09: A drug design lab raises over $2B as researchers coax living light

2026-05-04: An autonomous glider silently steers toward whale pods

2026-05-01: A company works to resurrect an antelope extinct for two centuries

2026-04-23: Integrated organ networks are grown inside animal wombs

2026-04-17: Sperm whale calls are found to pattern like human vowels

2026-04-13: Robotic decoys are deployed to restore a declining bird population

2026-04-12: The largest wild chimpanzee group splits into an eight-year war

2026-04-03: Seven thousand pets are signed up for cryopreservation

2026-03-29: The man who treated his dog's cancer starts a company

2026-03-22: Ninety feet of new beach is grown in six months

2026-03-20: Potatoes are grown in simulated lunar soil

2026-03-18: All five canonical nucleobases are found on an asteroid

2026-03-16: An entrepreneur designs an mRNA cancer vaccine for his own dog

2026-03-05: An agent grows tomatoes from seed to fruit over a hundred days

2026-03-04: Microbes survive asteroid-impact pressures, supporting panspermia

2026-02-25: A nine-pound dog vibe codes games

2026-02-20: Newborn chickens show the bouba-kiki effect

2026-02-16: A court dismisses an elephant personhood claim as agents win their own court

2026-02-10: California air quality improves with EV registrations

2026-02-07: Bonobos are found to identify pretend objects

2026-01-25: Waymo opens its sixth commercial market

2026-01-09: Some dogs learn words like toddlers

2026-01-09: Synthetic skin changes color and texture like an octopus

2026-01-05: A fish-gill filter strips 99.6% of microplastics

2026-01-03: China crusts the desert with engineered algae

2026-01-01: A model keeps a tomato plant alive

2025-12-31: ML-guided simulation finds new 2D membrane materials

2025-12-30: Stingless bees are granted legal rights

2025-12-21: Medical experiments on dogs phase out on cell culture and cognition evidence

2025-12-21: Italian bears evolve smaller and less aggressive near villages

2025-12-13: Rats play DOOM in a VR rig

2025-12-11: CDC ends monkey research in favor of organ chips

2025-12-11: Project CETI releases WhAM, generating synthetic whale codas

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Uplifting the rest of the biosphere
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/biosphere-uplift
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- Welcome to December 11, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-11-2025
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