{"id":17871,"date":"2026-07-20T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=17871"},"modified":"2026-07-20T12:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T12:27:05","slug":"the-download-ai-hiring-biases-and-weather-data-sabotage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=17871","title":{"rendered":"The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>\u2014Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. Kuglitsch, &amp; Andrea Toreti<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The must-reads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 SpaceX is negotiating to sell the Pentagon AI compute<\/strong><br \/>It would provide data center capacity worth billions of dollars. (WSJ $)<br \/><em>+ Deepening ties between Elon Musk\u2019s company and the DoD. <\/em>(Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ Meanwhile, Anthropic is in talks with Meta to acquire compute. <\/em>(CNBC)<br \/><em>+ The compute explosion is only just beginning.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Trump Media wants $100,000 a month for early access to Trump\u2019s posts<\/strong><br \/>The premium feed is being pitched to trading firms and banks. (FT $)<br \/><em>+ It aims to monetize Trump&#8217;s market-moving social media posts.<\/em> (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ Critics described the plan as \u201cbrazen corruption.\u201d<\/em> (Guardian)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>3 ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn&#8217;t supposed to have with Palantir<\/strong><br \/>Court filings show the data reached the contractor before being deleted. (NPR)<br \/><em>+ ICE is using data broker tools to identify\u00a0\u201cunaccompanied minors.\u201d <\/em>(Wired $)\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>4 Apple briefly overtook Nvidia as the world&#8217;s most valuable company<\/strong><br \/>The iPhone maker\u2019s earnings durability has impressed investors. (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ While Nvidia\u2019s rise has stalled amid shifting AI bets.<\/em> (CNBC)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>5. Politicians are trying to change what chatbots say about them<\/strong><br \/>A new industry has sprung up to help them edit AI outputs. (NYT $)<br \/><em>+ Chatbots can sway voters better than political\u00a0ads.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>6 Washington is opening the door to armed robots<\/strong><br \/>The Pentagon is accelerating AI weapons development. (WP $)<br \/><em>+ \u201cHumans in the loop\u201d in war is an illusion. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>7 China\u2019s Moonshot has paused new subscriptions amid surging uptake<\/strong><br \/>Demand for the headline-grabbing Kimi \u200bK3\u00a0has strained capacity. (SCMP)<br \/><em>+ China\u2019s open-source AI is challenging US models.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Lab-grown teeth could soon replace fillings and implants<\/strong><br \/>Scientists believe regenerative medicine could transform dentistry. (BBC)<br \/><em>+ Humanlike \u201cteeth\u201d have been grown in mini pigs.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>9 AI slop on birdwatching forums is putting research at risk<\/strong><br \/>It could contaminate records of species. (Guardian)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 Heart experts have good news for your coffee habit<\/strong><br \/>Roughly five cups per day is fine\u2014and may even be beneficial. (Gizmodo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cThe most authoritarian government is producing the most egalitarian models, and what should be the most democratic government is breeding companies that are the most authoritarian.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u2014Rayan Krishnan, CEO of Vals AI, a company that evaluates AI performance, gives the New York Times his take on the competition between Chinese and American models.<\/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\/2026\/02\/MITcarscams.jpg?w=3000\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1132655\"\/><\/p>\n<p>RICHARD CHANCE<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><br \/>The curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>A new wave of theft is rocking the luxury car industry\u2014mixing high tech with old-school chop-shop techniques to snag vehicles while they\u2019re in transport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #hiring #biases #weather #data #sabotage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014Monique Kuglitsch, Jesper Dramsch, Franz G. 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