{"id":24326,"date":"2026-10-19T12:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=24326"},"modified":"2026-10-19T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T12:30:31","slug":"the-download-inside-the-musk-v-altman-trial-and-ai-for-democracy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=24326","title":{"rendered":"The Download: inside the Musk v. Altman trial, and AI for democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2 Do we really want AI agents smoothing out all friction in our lives?<\/strong><br \/>They promise convenience, but right now they\u2019re mostly introducing chaos. (The Atlantic\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Here\u2019s what it\u2019s like to outsource your life to them.<\/em>\u00a0(Vox\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Websites are starting to close their doors to AI agents.<\/em>\u00a0(The Verge\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>AI agents bring new headaches for online sellers<\/em>. (WSJ\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3 How drones have transformed the front line in Ukraine<\/strong><br \/>They\u2019ve effectively created a \u201ckill zone\u201d, and it\u2019s growing wider and deadlier. (NYT\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Trump has denied ordering Starlink restrictions in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/em>(CNBC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4 China is considering restricting overseas access to its AI models\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s also looking at curbing the sharing of chip designs, among other measures. (Bloomberg\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Why western open weight models still can\u2019t compete with Chinese ones.<\/em>\u00a0(Rest of World)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Why Trumpworld still can\u2019t agree on how to respond to Chinese AI.\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5 HTC\u2019s smart glasses are way more private than Meta\u2019s<\/strong><br \/>Guess that\u2019s a benefit of not being shackled to a massive social media platform. (Wired\u00a0$)<br \/>+<em>\u00a0A bug caused Meta\u2019s glasses to record conversations without the wearer knowing.<\/em>\u00a0(Ars Technica)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India.<\/em>\u00a0(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6 Inside one man\u2019s quest to build California\u2019s biggest AI data center<\/strong><br \/>Sebastian Rucci didn\u2019t bank on meeting huge resistance from local residents. (The Guardian)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Americans are packing town halls to stop data centers, and it\u2019s working.<\/em>\u00a0(Quartz\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>No wonder companies are exploring putting them in space.<\/em>\u00a0(MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>7 Somebody vibe-coded a gun for the first time<\/strong><br \/>And it seems like it works (sometimes.) (The Verge\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>8 AI might reshape how we grieve<\/strong><br \/>It\u2019s never been easier to create realistic AI chatbots of people who\u2019ve passed. (Vox\u00a0$)<br \/>+\u00a0<em>Deepfakes of your dead loved ones are a booming business in China<\/em>. (MIT Technology Review)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 Japan is about to launch a mission to Mars\u2019 largest moon<\/strong><br \/>If all goes well, it should help us to understand how it formed. (New Scientist\u00a0$)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 Amateurs are cracking long-secret codes and ciphers\u00a0<\/strong>\ud83d\udd75\ufe0f<br \/>One of the more fun uses for large language models! (Nature)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cGoogle wouldn\u2019t have taken my call in the first term. Now they kiss my ass.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014President Trump brags about how much Big Tech bends the knee to him during a rally in Kentucky this weekend, the\u00a0Verge\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/05\/Craig-at-pool-surface-1_R1-mobile-edited-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1136850\"\/><\/p>\n<p>SIMON MITCHELL<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><br \/><\/strong>There are more AI health tools than ever\u2014but how well do they work?<\/h4>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the last few months alone, Microsoft, Amazon, and OpenAI have all launched medical chatbots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Download #Musk #Altman #trial #democracy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 Do we really want AI agents smoothing out all friction in our lives?They promise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6205,7838,488,803,4212,7837,977],"class_list":["post-24326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-altman","tag-and-ai-for-democracy","tag-democracy","tag-download","tag-musk","tag-the-download-inside-the-musk-v-altman-trial","tag-trial"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/IMG_1451-540x340.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\/24326","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=24326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}