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The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage

AnnouncementResearchJul 20, 2026

SpaceX is negotiating to sell the Pentagon AI compute, providing data center capacity worth billions of dollars. The newsletter also covers research by Michelle Kim finding that AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring, as models develop their own stereotypes from experience. Additional topics include weather data sabotage risks and a curated list of technology stories.

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