The Download: how America lost its lead in the hunt for alien life, and ambitious battery claims

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• China's Mars sample return mission is leaner than America and Europe's mission, and the rock samples it will snatch will likely not be as high quality

  80% confidence

• ChatGPT refused to help Chinese law enforcement plan an online smear campaign against Japan's prime minister

  80% confidence

• America has effectively ceded its pole position to China in the race to find evidence of alien life

  80% confidence

• Conductor is using carrots and sticks to enforce AI literacy among workers

  80% confidence

• Those specks on Mars rock are not definitive proof of alien life, but they are the best hint yet that life may not be a one-off event in the cosmos

  80% confidence

• Donut Lab's solid-state batteries can charge super-fast, have high energy density for ultra-long-range EVs, operate safely in extreme temperatures, contain green and abundant materials, and cost less than lithium-ion batteries

  80% confidence

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