{"id":11806,"date":"2026-05-28T12:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2026-05-28T12:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:55:12","slug":"the-download-climate-tech-goes-public-and-the-ai-hype-index-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=11806","title":{"rendered":"The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>1 Illinois just passed what could become America\u2019s strongest AI safety law<\/strong><br \/>It would require third-party safety audits. (Wired $)<br \/><em>+ But it still needs the governor\u2019s approval.<\/em> (NBC News)<br \/><em>+ The US is divided over AI regulation.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 A Google engineer has been charged with insider trading<br \/><\/strong>He allegedly bet on who\u2019d be the most-searched people of 2025 on Polymarket. (BBC)<br \/><em>+ And used internal data to rack up more than $1.2 million in winnings. <\/em>(Verge)<br \/><em>+ He\u2019s been charged with fraud and money laundering over the bets.<\/em> (NPR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 ByteDance is developing custom CPUs amid a massive AI chip squeeze<\/strong><br \/>The TikTok owner is struggling with severe supply shortages. (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are also building custom CPUs.<\/em> (CNBC)<br \/><em>+ Taiwan\u2019s \u201csilicon shield\u201d could be weakening.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 Four tech giants have backed a clean energy push for AI data centers<br \/><\/strong>Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft have joined the initiative. (Quartz)<br \/><em>+ Investor Elemental Impact will deploy up to $5 million per project. (<\/em><em>Axios<\/em><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Nvidia\u2019s CEO is joining the board of Beijing\u2019s Tsinghua University<\/strong><br \/>His appointment comes as Nvidia struggles to export chips to China. (FT $)<br \/><em>+ President Xi is an alumnus of Tsinghua, aka &#8220;China&#8217;s Harvard.\u201d <\/em>(Reuters $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 The Trump administration is in talks to fund drone firms<br \/><\/strong>One of which counts Donald Trump Jr. as a shareholder. (WSJ $)<br \/><em>+ Drone dominance has been described \u200bas a &#8220;presidential priority.&#8221;<\/em> (Reuters $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 London has reclaimed its position as Europe&#8217;s leading tech hub<br \/><\/strong>It\u2019s overtaken Paris in new global rankings. (Euronews)<br \/><em>+ And now sits fourth, behind the Bay Area, New York and Boston. <\/em>(Reuters $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 OpenAI and Anthropic disagree over AI\u2019s impact on jobs<br \/><\/strong>Anthropic is emphasizing the risks, while OpenAI is sounding rosier. (Axios)<br \/><em>+ The AI jobs hysteria needs a reality check. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 Researchers claim to have achieved perfect randomness for the first time<br \/><\/strong>Thanks to entangled quantum chips. (Interesting Engineering)<br \/><em>+ The milestone could lead to better cybersecurity.<\/em> (Scientific American)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #climate #tech #public #Hype #Index #returns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 Illinois just passed what could become America\u2019s strongest AI safety lawIt would require third-party&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8850,803,2792,4696,3924,40,1768,9285],"class_list":["post-11806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-climate","tag-download","tag-hype","tag-index","tag-public","tag-returns","tag-tech","tag-the-download-climate-tech-goes-public-and-the-ai-hype-index-returns"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP24177191447994-540x340.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\/11806","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=11806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}