{"id":10656,"date":"2026-05-18T13:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T13:32:31","slug":"the-download-musk-v-altman-week-3-and-trumps-tech-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10656","title":{"rendered":"The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump\u2019s tech trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>3 Chinese AI groups have pulled ahead of US rivals in video generation<br \/><\/strong>ByteDance and Kuaishou\u2019s models lead in realism and scale. (FT $)<br \/><em>+ AI is fueling China\u2019s short-drama boom. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<br \/><em>+ While its AI labs are betting big on open source.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Iran says it will charge Big Tech for using undersea internet cables<br \/><\/strong>The cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz<strong> <\/strong>carry vast digital traffic. (CNN)<br \/><em>+ Tech bosses met at Uber HQ on Saturday to discuss Iran\u2019s future. <\/em>(404 Media)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Samsung has a \u201clast chance\u201d to stop a massive strike over AI<br \/><\/strong>Over 45,000 employees could walk out for 18 days this week. (CNBC)\u00a0<br \/><em>+ They want a bigger share of the AI boom.<\/em> (FT $)<br \/><em>+ Samsung and its largest labor union will resume talks on Tuesday.<\/em> (Reuters $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Old oil and gas wells could become a new source of clean energy<br \/><\/strong>US states plan to convert them into geothermal energy assets. (Wired $)<br \/><em>+ A balcony solar boom is coming to the US. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 The ChatGPT era has triggered a 30% surge in grades at a top university<br \/><\/strong>Grades inflated in text-heavy courses but remained flat in others. (Axios)<br \/><em>+ Princeton has changed its honor code because of AI cheating. <\/em>(WSJ $)<br \/><em>+ And real cheating rates may be far higher. <\/em>(The Times $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt was fiercely booed during an AI speech<br \/><\/strong>His graduation speech praising AI agents sparked uproar. (The Verge)<br \/><em>+ A populist backlash is building against AI. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 Arm faces a US antitrust probe over its chip tech licenses<\/strong><br \/>Regulators are investigating whether it has an illegal monopoly. (Bloomberg $)<br \/><em>+ Qualcomm has accused Arm of anticompetitive conduct.<\/em> (Reuters $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 ArXiv will ban researchers who submit AI slop<br \/><\/strong>Offending authors face year-long bans from the pre-print server. (TechCrunch)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #Musk #Altman #week #Trumps #tech #trading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Chinese AI groups have pulled ahead of US rivals in video generationByteDance and Kuaishou\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6205,8641,803,4212,1768,8640,19,823,110],"class_list":["post-10656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-altman","tag-and-trumps-tech-trading","tag-download","tag-musk","tag-tech","tag-the-download-musk-v-altman-week-3","tag-trading","tag-trumps","tag-week"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2273247036-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}