{"id":14218,"date":"2026-06-18T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=14218"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:58:10","slug":"the-download-a-new-hunt-for-dark-matter-and-kenyas-case-for-going-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=14218","title":{"rendered":"The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya&#8217;s case for going solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>1 The Pentagon says it used Grok in strikes on Iran<\/strong><br \/>Its AI chief said it helped fire over 2,000 munitions. (Le Monde)<br \/><em>+ He spoke in defense of xAI in a data center pollution lawsuit. <\/em>(NYT $)<br \/><em>+ Officials claim the company is essential to national security. <\/em>(AP News)<br \/><em>+ Conversational AI has entered the war room. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>2 Apple will raise prices due to the memory chip shortage<\/strong><br \/>Tim Cook said price increases are \u201cunavoidable.\u201d (WSJ $)<br \/><em>+ AI\u2019s demand for data centers has led to dwindling supplies.<\/em> (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ iPhone prices could rise by $200 or more.<\/em> (WSJ $)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>3 Strikes beyond battlefields are pumping\u00a0demand for counter-drone tech<\/strong><br \/>The market for airport and infrastructure defenses is booming. (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ Worried by China, Taiwan is teaching its citizens to fly drones.<\/em> (Guardian)<br \/><em>+ Europe has a drone-filled vision for future war. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>4 Anthropic and DeepMind\u2019s CEOs have called for a US-led AI coalition<\/strong><br \/>They want the alliance to shape AI rules and standards. (CNBC)<br \/><em>+ Anthropic\u2019s CEO told G7 leaders to \u201cresist the temptation to splinter.\u201d<\/em> (FT $)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>5 American developers are turning to cheaper Chinese AI<\/strong><br \/>They say DeepSeek is good enough for a fraction of the cost. (Rest of World)<br \/><em>+ What\u2019s next for Chinese open-source AI?<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>6 Two-thirds of Americans think AI is advancing too quickly<\/strong><br \/>Pew Research found increasing use but negative views. (The Verge)<br \/><em>+ AI is sprinting, and we\u2019re struggling to keep up.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>7 Elon Musk\u2019s next move may be a megamerger of SpaceX and Tesla<\/strong><br \/>Shareholders might object, but there\u2019s little they could do. (NYT $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 White House aims\u00a0for Anthropic to block jailbreaks may be impossible<\/strong><br \/>Security experts say it simply isn&#8217;t technically feasible. (Wired $)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>9 Ancient DNA is rewriting the history of plague<\/strong><br \/>Genomic data suggests it emerged thousands of years earlier. (Economist $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 AI image generator Midjourney is shifting\u00a0to\u00a0full-body ultrasound scans<\/strong><br \/>It also plans to build a spa in San Francisco. (The Verge)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cWe had a great meeting with AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u2014President Trump says negotiations with Anthropic over restoring access to the company\u2019s latest AI models are going well, the Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.technologyreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/SO22_techgender-01SC.jpeg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1057017\"\/><\/p>\n<p>GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><br \/>Why can\u2019t tech fix its gender problem?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Women remain grossly underrepresented in the technology industry. At the core of the problem is money: tech has generated enormous personal fortunes, and most of that wealth has gone to men.<\/p>\n<p>White and Asian men manage 93% of venture dollars. In 2021, only 2% of venture capital funding went to startups founded solely by women.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of investor and founder diversity doesn\u2019t only determine who gets rich. It also shapes the kinds of problems technology companies set out to solve.<\/p>\n<p>Discover why tech\u2019s gender problem has proved so hard to fix\u2014and why a new generation of activists believes change is finally possible.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #hunt #dark #matter #Kenyas #case #solar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 The Pentagon says it used Grok in strikes on IranIts AI chief said it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2560,2507,803,872,10485,2274,2301,10484],"class_list":["post-14218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-case","tag-dark","tag-download","tag-hunt","tag-kenyas","tag-matter","tag-solar","tag-the-download-a-new-hunt-for-dark-matter-and-kenya039s-case-for-going-solar"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h.png",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-300x150.png",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-768x384.png",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-1024x512.png",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h.png",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h.png",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-1024x512.png",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GettyImages-1278321226_h-540x340.png",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\/14218","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=14218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}