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The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers

1 The US has approved Nvidia chip sales to 10 Chinese firmsAlibaba, Tencent, and ByteDance are among those cleared to buy H200 chips. (Reuters $)+ The US will receive 25% of the... Read more »

The Tesla Semi could be a big deal for electric trucking

Delivering this much range for this big truck means a whopping battery. The base model Tesla Semi battery pack has a usable capacity of 548 kilowatt-hours, according to a document filed with... Read more »

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 

It’s not certain whether this activity falls within the US legal definition of “fair use”—an issue that’s currently being litigated in several lawsuits from other types of content creators—but Casper argues that... Read more »

AI chatbots are giving out people’s real phone numbers

“It was severely downgraded,” Gilbert confirms. “I never would have found it if I was just looking through Google results.” (I tried the same prompt in Gemini earlier this month, and after... Read more »

The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft

1 Sam Altman claims Elon Musk tried to seize control of OpenAIAltman said Musk initially wanted 90% of the equity. (AFP)+ And that control should go to his children when he dies.... Read more »

A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial

Weight is the big obstacle to such dreams. It still costs around $7,000 to launch a single kilogram of payload into orbit, which makes it impractical to, say, send cotton into space... Read more »

World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now

The latest iteration of a legacy Founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899, MIT Technology Review is a world-renowned, independent media company whose insight, analysis, reviews, interviews and live events... Read more »

The Download: a Nobel winner on AI, and the case for fixing everything

Lee Vinsel is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech, a cofounder of The Maintainers, and the host of Peoples & Things, a podcast about human life with... Read more »

Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

Two years later, Acemoglu’s measured take has not caught on. Chatter about an AI jobs apocalypse pops up everywhere from Senator Bernie Sanders’s rallies to conversations I overhear in line at the... Read more »

Fostering breakthrough AI innovation through customer-back engineering

“A solution would have been a lot harder in an ecosystem without a lot of high-quality data,” says Agrawal. “But when you combine a rich data ecosystem with agentic tools, you move... Read more »