The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings
View original at technologyreview.comMIT Technology Review - Ai Research Title: The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings Date: 2026-06-29 12:10 Source: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139834/the-download-metric-weaknesses-ai-elephant-warnings/ <p><em>This is today’s edition of </em><a href="https://forms.technologyreview.com/n…
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India is home to about 60% of the world's wild Asian elephants, with around 80% of their habitat outside protected areas, leading to deadly human-wildlife conflicts.
60% confidenceExternal metrics and data can never capture what is truly important; worse, they inevitably redefine one's core sense of what is important, whether or not one is aware of the trap.
60% confidenceA new study suggests 6.4 to 7.8 hours of sleep is the optimal range; too much sleep may be as harmful as too little.
60% confidenceGoogle capping Meta's access to Gemini AI compute has disrupted and delayed some Meta AI projects.
60% confidencePowerful AI capable of altering the landscape of cyberwarfare cannot remain solely in American hands; Chinese AI firms must match US capabilities.
60% confidenceSecurity researchers say Zhipu AI is poised to reset the AI race after its model matched Anthropic's Mythos in finding security bugs.
60% confidenceThere have been some 3,000 human casualties from human-elephant conflicts in India in the last five years, and over 1,000 elephant deaths since 2014.
60% confidenceAndroid phones gave Venezuelan earthquake victims between seconds and up to two minutes of advance notice before the seismic events struck.
60% confidenceUS restrictions on AI models have sparked alarm that they are boosting China's AI progress.
60% confidenceResearch shows Gen Z are more likely to believe and pass on misinformation when they feel a sense of common identity with the person who shared it, with social media shifting credibility from community to identity-based authority.
60% confidenceZhipu AI's model still cannot match Anthropic or OpenAI on general tasks despite matching Mythos in security bug detection.
60% confidenceChipmakers are profiting off AI at the expense of everyone else.
60% confidenceSevere weather is now the leading cause of loss for data centers, as extreme heat puts AI-heavy data centers under significant operational pressure.
60% confidenceAppropriate safeguards are now in place for the release of Anthropic's Mythos 5 model to trusted organizations.
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