The Download: Silicon Valley’s blind spot and Nvidia’s chip-tracking plan
—Aaron Zamost, a tech communications consultant and a former executive at Square The self-styled visionaries of Silicon Valley have built careers claiming to see the future.
Key points
- 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.
- (MIT Technology Review) 4 Parents are demanding an AI moratorium in schools Gemini allegedly encouraged a teenager to plan suicide.
- Teams have developed brain implants that can control robotic limbs and computers, and even “speak.” The people who volunteer for trials of these devices play a vital role in that research, and they ought to be recognized for their contributions, says Ian Burkhart, who had one implanted in his own brain back in 2014.
Here’s why Silicon Valley’s tech leaders may be less visionary than they think.
(MIT Technology Review) 3 An Alice Huang-linked firm procured banned Nvidia chips in China The servers were first sold to an Nvidia partner in Singapore.
Additional details
- The act is drawing renewed attention following Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s resignation and reported affair.
- Yet five weeks before the midterms, many gathered at the White House to pose with Trump and endorse his “Super Intelligence” agenda, despite growing opposition to AI and data centers.
- —James O’Donnell More autonomy, fewer NDAs: Volunteers have new requests for brain implant trials Scientists have been working on ways to decode brain activity for decades.
- (NYT $) + The city-state faces growing scrutiny over its chip links to China.
- (MIT Technology Review) 5 Advocacy groups have sued five frontier AI labs to stop development They’re targeting Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and SpaceXSI.
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