The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading
A broad tech-news digest with peripheral AI content — low priority for APS AI governance readers.
Key points
- MIT Technology Review's daily digest covers multiple loosely AI-adjacent stories with no single focus.
- Stories include grade inflation from ChatGPT, Chinese video AI advances, and ArXiv's AI-slop ban.
- Low signal for APS readers; no Australian angle and no item developed in depth.
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"The Download: Musk v. Altman week 3, and Trump’s tech trading"
Source: MIT Technology Review – AI
Published: 18 May 2026
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/18/1137407/the-download-musk-altman-trial-trump-tech-trading/
MIT Technology Review's 'The Download' for 18 May 2026 is a multi-topic daily digest spanning Chinese AI video generation advances, Iran's cable-fee demands on Big Tech, a Samsung labour dispute over AI profit-sharing, ChatGPT-linked grade inflation at a top university, an antitrust probe into Arm's chip licensing, and ArXiv's new policy banning AI-generated 'slop' submissions. AI appears as a thread across several items but no single story is developed in depth, and none carries a direct Australian or APS governance angle.
Retrieved from SIMS, 18 July 2026.