The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Key points
- He’s supposed to protect America, not China, not his friends.” —Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, accuses President Donald Trump of ignoring warnings about the alleged relationship between Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and a Chinese spy.
- MIT Technology Review Narrated: Open models have real benefits.
- Six wild ideas for perpetuating your mind As we age, we forget most of what we’ve experienced, yet there’s still undeniable continuity: At 30, or 50, or 70, you will still be you.
Its core concern was that it is freely available for anyone to download and modify.
The warning was the latest flashpoint in the debate over open frontier AI models.
Additional details
- (Ars Technica) 6 Moderna says its new vaccine could prevent cancer in high-risk people The company’s CEO calls it the “holy grail” of cancer prevention.
- (MIT Technology Review) 2 The Nvidia spy scandal reportedly involves $7.5 billion of chips Alice Huang allegedly obtained 240,000 restricted chips.
- One more thing How refrigeration ruined fresh food Bananas may not be chilled in the grocery store, but they’re the ultimate refrigerated fruit.
- (MIT Technology Review) 4 Anthropic has scaled back its IPO valuation to $1.4 trillion It aimed for $2 trillion before the recent AI jitters.
- Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by the Chinese company Z.ai, poses a major cyberattack risk.
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