{"id":7104,"date":"2026-04-17T12:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=7104"},"modified":"2026-04-17T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:49:31","slug":"the-download-bad-news-for-inner-neanderthals-and-ai-warfares-human-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=7104","title":{"rendered":"The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare\u2019s human illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The real danger isn\u2019t that machines will act without oversight; it\u2019s that human overseers have no idea what the machines are actually \u201cthinking.\u201d Thankfully, science may offer a way forward.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full op-ed on the urgent need for new safeguards around AI warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><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 Despite blacklisting Anthropic, the White House wants its new model<br \/><\/strong>Trump officials are negotiating access to Mythos. (Axios)<br \/><em>+ Anthropic said it was too dangerous for a public release.<\/em> (Bloomberg $)<br \/><em>+ Finance ministers are alarmed about the security risks.<\/em> (BBC)<br \/><em>+ <em>Anthropic<\/em> just rolled out a model that\u2019s less risky than Mythos.<\/em> (CNBC)<br \/><em>+ The Pentagon has pursued a culture war against the company.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Sam Altman\u2019s side hustles have raised conflict-of-interest concerns<br \/><\/strong>His opaque investments could influence decisions at OpenAI. (WSJ $)<br \/><em>+ A jury will soon decide if OpenAI abandoned its founding mission.<\/em> (Wired $)<br \/><em>+ The company is making a big play for science.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 A Starlink outage during drone tests exposed the Pentagon\u2019s SpaceX reliance<br \/><\/strong>It was one of several Navy test disruptions linked to Starlink. (Reuters $)<br \/><em>+ The DoD is also tapping Ford and GM for military innovations.<\/em>(NYT $)<strong\/><\/p>\n<p>4 Data center delays threaten to choke AI expansion<br \/>40% of this year\u2019s projects are at risk of falling behind schedule. (FT $)<br \/><em>+ Partly because no one wants a data center in their backyard. <\/em>(MIT Technology Review)<strong\/><\/p>\n<p>5 Alibaba just released its own version of a world model<br \/>Happy Oyster is the latest attempt to extend AI\u2019s ability to comprehend physical reality. (SCMP)<br \/><em>+ But they still need to understand cause and effect<\/em>. (FT $)<strong\/><\/p>\n<p>6 Google&#8217;s Gemini is now generating AI images tailored to personal data<br \/>By analyzing users\u2019 Google services and data. (Quartz)<br \/><em>+ Google says it will cut the need for detailed prompts. <\/em>(TechCrunch) <strong\/><\/p>\n<p>7 OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system<br \/>Its Codex update is a direct shot at Claude Code. (The Verge)<br \/><em>+ But not everyone is convinced about AI coding.<\/em> (MIT Technology Review)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8 Europe\u2019s online age verification app is here<br \/><\/strong>It\u2019s available for free to any company that wants it. (Wired $)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>9 Smartglasses are giving Korean theaters hope of a K-Pop moment<br \/><\/strong>Their AI-powered translations are taking the shows to the world. (NYT $)<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 Global voice actors are fighting Hollywood\u2019s AI push<br \/><\/strong>Their voices are training the models that are replacing them. (Rest of World)<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Quote of the day<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u201cThere\u2019s this dark period between now and some time in the future where the advantage is very much offensive AI.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u2014Rob Joyce, former director of cybersecurity at the National Security Agency, tells Bloomberg how AI is creating new hacking threats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>One More Thing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#Download #bad #news #Neanderthals #warfares #human #illusion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real danger isn\u2019t that machines will act without oversight; it\u2019s that human overseers have&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6553,189,803,250,6503,6554,341,6552,6555],"class_list":["post-7104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-and-ai-warfares-human-illusion","tag-bad","tag-download","tag-human","tag-illusion","tag-neanderthals","tag-news","tag-the-download-bad-news-for-inner-neanderthals","tag-warfares"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top.jpg",1200,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Neanderthals_finals-top-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\/7104","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=7104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}