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The Download: preserving minds and weighing open AI risks

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Briefings

The Download newsletter presents six speculative technologies for preserving human consciousness, including brain freezing, memory cloud-uploading, and age reversal. It also reports on geopolitical tensions involving Nvidia and Z.ai, a recent Nvidia spy scandal, and a new cancer vaccine. The article notes that only a dozen nations are ready to sign COP31's electrification pledge and that Yandex's cloud data was wiped by drone strikes.

Key points

• MIT Technology Review Narrated podcast features a report by Anthropic comparing open AI models to cyberattack risks from Chinese company Z.ai.
• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang allegedly obtained 240,000 restricted chips via an alleged spy link with a Chinese individual, prompting a $7.5 billion scandal.

Context

The article is from the Impossible edition of The Download, a weekday newsletter providing daily technology news. It includes a section on open frontier AI models and a separate section on various global tech developments.

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