The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare
A broad technology news digest with peripheral AI content — low priority for APS practitioners seeking actionable governance signal.
Key points
- MIT Technology Review daily digest covers ten distinct technology stories with AI as one thread.
- AI-relevant items include Meta workforce tracking rollback, Microsoft Scout AI assistant, and AI-supercharged computer worms.
- Low signal for APS readers; no Australian government or policy angle is present in this issue.
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"The Download: Trump’s new AI order, and smart glasses for warfare"
Source: MIT Technology Review – AI
Published: 3 June 2026
URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/03/1138322/the-download-trump-ai-order-smart-glasses-warfare/
MIT Technology Review's daily Download digest for 3 June 2026 covers ten distinct stories spanning AI, space, EVs, and digital infrastructure. AI-relevant items include Meta scaling back keystroke-tracking plans for AI training following backlash, Microsoft's internally documented goal to make users 'addicted' to its Scout AI assistant, mathematicians raising concerns about AI trustworthiness, and researchers demonstrating AI-supercharged computer worms capable of targeting any known system flaw. No item is developed in depth; each points outward to underlying sources.
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