The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers
A broad daily tech digest with peripheral AI content - low priority for APS governance and policy readers.
Key points
- MIT Technology Review's daily digest covers ten unrelated stories across AI, geopolitics, and tech.
- AI-adjacent threads include developer skill degradation, energy consumption, and conflict forecasting - none developed in depth.
- Low signal for APS readers; this is a general tech news roundup without a focused Australian angle.
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"The Download: deepfake porn’s stolen bodies and AI sharing private numbers"
Source: MIT Technology Review – AI
Published: 14 May 2026
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/14/1137257/the-download-deepfake-porn-bodies-ai-exposing-phone-numbers/
MIT Technology Review's daily Download newsletter covers ten distinct stories: US approval of Nvidia chip sales to Chinese firms, China's AI independence strategy, concerns about AI degrading developer skills, Sam Altman conflict-of-interest allegations, Andreessen Horowitz political donations, Microsoft-OpenAI dependency concerns, AI-based geopolitical forecasting, Anthropic's training data findings, data centre energy consumption reaching 6% of US and UK electricity use, and a NASA rover update. AI is one of several threads across the digest; no story is developed substantively.
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