The Download: 4G on the moon, and parenting in the digital age
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Summary
The latest edition of MIT Technology Review focuses on relationships and features stories on China, the metaverse, deep fakes, and artificial intelligence.
Among the articles in the edition are: Nokia is building the first cellular network on the moon; a woman talks about being targeted by pregnancy ads; China’s DeepSeek is looking at monetising its AI models; a norovirus vaccine is on the horizon; China is looking for ways to safeguard data from quantum computers; Reddit moderators are trying to keep AI slop off the platform; and Meta has wasted $70bn on the metaverse.
The big story is “What is AI?” and the quote of the day comes from Professor Ryan Calo at the University of Washington, who says that Elon Musk and President Trump’s vengeance on critics is creating a chilling effect.