{"id":18794,"date":"2026-07-29T12:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=18794"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:29:37","slug":"the-download-a-chip-talent-battle-and-deflating-ai-hype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=18794","title":{"rendered":"The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\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 OpenAI\u2019s rogue agent compromised another customer<\/strong><br \/>An unnamed client of a company that provides AI infrastructure, called Modal Labs. (Reuters\u00a0$)<br \/><em>+ OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we\u2019ve been here before.<\/em>\u00a0(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Hugging Face has a nonconsensual deepfakes problem<\/strong><br \/>Researchers tested nine of the top image editing models it hosts, and found seven\u00a0will \u2018nudify\u2019 images of women. (Wired\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Investors are only getting more anxious about AI\u2019s earnings potential<\/strong><br \/>The numbers don&#8217;t add up, and maybe they never will. (The Verge\u00a0$)<br \/><em>+ A global tech stock sell-off intensified yesterday.<\/em>\u00a0(FT\u00a0$)<br \/><em>+ Ratings agency Fitch says an AI market correction is now one of the biggest risks facing the global economy.\u00a0<\/em>(The Next Web)<br \/><em>+ New real-world data from Google shows most tasks at most jobs are unaffected by AI.\u00a0<\/em>(Ars Technica)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4\u00a0Moonshot wants advanced Nvidia chips to train its next model<\/strong><br \/>The Chinese AI firm\u00a0already got access to some of them to train its latest release, called\u00a0Kimi 3. (The Information\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Taiwan detained an Nvidia employee as part of a probe into the alleged smuggling of AI chips into China.<\/em>(Bloomberg\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>The Trump Administration has banned Chinese humanoid robots.\u00a0<\/em>(Reuters\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 Minnesota has been blocked from banning prediction market platforms<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s the latest skirmish in a fight between states and the Trump Administration over this issue. (AP)<br \/><em>+ Here\u2019s how prediction markets incentivize weather data sabotage.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Apple is launching a device leasing program<\/strong><br \/>As the global memory shortage worsens, the idea is that this will make your iPhone feel more affordable. (Quartz\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Apple just topped a $5 trillion valuation for the first time.\u00a0<\/em>(FT\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Some Substackers are complaining about its new AI detection tool<\/strong><br \/>Presumably the ones who\u2019d prefer to secretly continue using AI to write. (404 Media\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Ebay had to pay\u00a0nearly $50 million to settle a harassment suit<\/strong><br \/>Their employees\u00a0threatened and sent bizarre deliveries\u2014including cockroaches\u2014for a pair of bloggers for\u00a0years. (Bloomberg\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 A New York school just rowed back on plans to deploy a robot teacher<\/strong><br \/>Sanity prevails, for once. (NPR)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 This startup wants to build a better microwave beep<\/strong><br \/>I\u2019d like to request a sax solo for mine, please. (Gizmodo)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #chip #talent #battle #deflating #hype<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve combed the internet to find you today\u2019s most fun\/important\/scary\/fascinating stories about technology. 1 OpenAI\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[400,1945,12400,803,2792,5496],"class_list":["post-18794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-battle","tag-chip","tag-deflating","tag-download","tag-hype","tag-talent"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/chip-money-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\/18794","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=18794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}