The field is moving towards developing more efficient and scalable solutions for memory safety and 3D generation. Researchers are exploring new approaches to safe memory reclamation, including blending ideas from across the hardware-software stack to achieve high speed and scalability. In the area of 3D generation, there is a growing interest in unifying 3D representations and evaluating their performance in reconstruction and generation. Noteworthy papers include Unifi3D, which presents a unified evaluation framework for 3D representations, and PaMO, which introduces a novel GPU-based mesh optimization approach for intersection-free low-poly modeling.