The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
《下载》：能源传输与美国对中国人工智能的威胁
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 这是今日份的《下载》，我们平日发行的时事通讯，为您提供每日科技世界的动态。
The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags
可能重塑纽约电网的输电线路遭遇阻碍
During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about 9% of its total demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens. It opened in May and is officially the longest underground transmission line in North America. It could provide up to 20% of New York City’s electricity demand, largely with abundant hydropower from Quebec. One wrinkle: The line has been down for most of this month, and some experts are concerned about how drought will affect the power supply feeding it. Still, the line could help shape the future of our grid, if it can overcome these sorts of snags. Read our story to understand how. —Casey Crownhart 在7月3日的热浪期间，纽约州电网从加拿大进口的电力足以满足当天约9%的总需求。其中部分电力通过一条从魁北克延伸至皇后区、全长339英里的输电线路输送。该线路于5月开通，是北美正式最长的地下输电线路。它最多可提供纽约市20%的电力需求，主要依靠魁北克丰富的水力发电。但有一个问题：该线路本月大部分时间处于停运状态，一些专家担心干旱会影响其电力供应。尽管如此，如果能克服这些障碍，这条线路仍有助于塑造我们电网的未来。阅读我们的报道以了解详情。——Casey Crownhart
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The must-reads
必读精选
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 我已梳理了互联网，为您找出今天最有趣、最重要、最令人恐惧及最引人入胜的科技故事。
1 The US Treasury is threatening to sanction Chinese AI companies 1 美国财政部威胁要制裁中国人工智能公司 Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. (TechCrunch) 财政部长斯科特·贝森特（Scott Bessent）指责月之暗面（Moonshot）不正当地蒸馏了Anthropic的Fable模型。（TechCrunch）
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is arguing that America has nothing to fear from Chinese AI. (Axios)
- 英伟达的黄仁勋认为，美国无需对中国人工智能感到恐惧。（Axios）
- Like it or not, Chinese models are now part of the global AI infrastructure. (Rest of World)
- 不管你喜不喜欢，中国模型现在已成为全球人工智能基础设施的一部分。（Rest of World）
- China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself. (MIT Technology Review)
- 中国的人工智能模型让特朗普的人工智能世界陷入了内战。（《麻省理工科技评论》）
2 Why the OpenAI hack is the scariest AI mishap yet 2 为什么OpenAI的黑客事件是迄今为止最可怕的人工智能事故 AI’s capabilities seem to be starting to outpace our current ability to control them. (The Economist $) 人工智能的能力似乎开始超过我们目前控制它们的能力。（《经济学人》）
- Hugging Face had to turn to a Chinese AI model to rescue it from the hack. (BI)
- Hugging Face不得不求助于中国的人工智能模型来从黑客攻击中解救自己。（BI）
3 Visually impaired Europeans can now get an implant that restores sight 3 欧洲视障人士现在可以植入恢复视力的设备 And Americans may not have to wait long to receive it, too. (STAT) 美国人可能也不用等太久就能用上。（STAT）
- This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle. (MIT Technology Review)
- 这种视网膜植入物让视力受损的人能够完成填字游戏。（《麻省理工科技评论》）
4 A bellwether lawsuit suing Meta for social media addiction has been dropped 4 一起指控Meta导致社交媒体成瘾的指标性诉讼已被撤销 There are, however, many more waiting in the wings. (NYT $) 然而，还有许多类似的诉讼在排队等待。（《纽约时报》）
5 Here’s how ICE gets its hands on Americans’ data 5 美国移民及海关执法局（ICE）是如何获取美国人数据的 As soon as you open a credit card or phone account, its agents can see where you live. (404 Media) 只要你开通信用卡或手机账户，其特工就能看到你的住址。（404 Media）
- States are warring with the Trump administration over the right to see ICE agents’ faces. (Wired $)
- 各州正与特朗普政府就查看ICE特工面部的权利进行博弈。（《连线》）
6 We urgently need to grapple with AI’s environmental impact 6 我们迫切需要应对人工智能对环境的影响 As the world warms, is the price we’re paying worth it? (The Verge) 随着全球变暖，我们付出的代价值得吗？（The Verge）
- We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. (MIT Technology Review)
- 我们计算了人工智能的能源足迹。（《麻省理工科技评论》）
7 Privacy issues with smart glasses need an industrywide fix 7 智能眼镜的隐私问题需要行业层面的解决方案 That’s according to Samsung, which is unveiling glasses it developed with Google this fall. (Bloomberg $) 三星表示，他们将于今年秋季推出与谷歌共同开发的眼镜。（《彭博社》）
8 The US Army is begging soldiers to limit their AI use 8 美国陆军恳求士兵限制使用人工智能 The token crisis comes for us all eventually, it seems. (Ars Technica) 看来，Token（代币/令牌）危机终究会降临到我们每个人头上。（Ars Technica）
9 Why does lettuce keep making Americans sick? 🥬😷 9 为什么生菜总是让美国人生病？🥬😷 It’s pretty simple: a lot of people eat it, and it doesn’t get cooked. (Wired $) 原因很简单：吃的人多，而且它不需要烹饪。（《连线》）
10 Pokemon Go is the perfect game to play this summer 10 《宝可梦Go》是今年夏天最适合玩的游戏 It’s fun, collaborative, and it gets you outdoors. (Guardian) 它既有趣又具有协作性，还能让你走到户外。（《卫报》）
Quote of the day
今日名言
“It went off and did this hack all by itself, as far as we can tell. This is the highest level of autonomy that we’ve seen in the use of a large language model for cyber operations.” “据我们所知，它自行启动并完成了这次黑客攻击。这是我们在网络行动中使用大语言模型所见过的最高自主水平。”
—Colin Shea-Blymyer, a cybersecurity research fellow at Georgetown University, tells NPR why the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face is so alarming. ——乔治城大学网络安全研究员Colin Shea-Blymyer向NPR解释了为何OpenAI对Hugging Face的黑客攻击如此令人担忧。
One More Thing
额外关注
Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream 欢迎来到加密货币“无需许可”梦想的阴暗面
Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps. But is he responsible for what it’s used for? It’s a question that matters because in January last year, its users lost more than $200 million in cryptocurrency after THORChain transactions and accounts were frozen by an admin override, which users believed was not supposed to be possible given the decentralized structure. It’s also been used by North Korean hackers to move $1.2 billion of stolen ethereum. Thorbjornsen explains this all away as a function of THORChain’s decentralized and permissionless nature. Read our story exploring whether we should believe him or not. —Jessica Klein Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen是THORChain的创始人，这是一个区块链，用户可以通过它交换加密货币并从中赚取手续费。但他是否应对其用途负责？这是一个重要的问题，因为去年1月，在THORChain的交易和账户被管理员权限冻结后，用户损失了超过2亿美元的加密货币，而用户认为鉴于其去中心化结构，这本不该发生。它还被朝鲜黑客用于转移12亿美元被盗的以太坊。Thorbjornsen将这一切解释为THORChain去中心化和无需许可性质的必然结果。阅读我们的报道，探讨我们是否应该相信他。——Jessica Klein
We can still have nice things
我们依然可以拥有美好事物
A place for comfort, fun, and distraction to brighten up your day. (Got any ideas? Drop me a line.) 一个提供舒适、乐趣和消遣的地方，让您的一天更加明亮。（有什么好点子吗？给我写信。）
- A musician developed an ingenious way to strum a guitar with an electric fan.
- 一位音乐家发明了一种用电风扇弹奏吉他的巧妙方法。
- Ukraine’s tunnel of love is a leafy green corridor of romance that’s straight out of a fairy tale.
- 乌克兰的“爱情隧道”是一条绿意盎然的浪漫长廊，仿佛出自童话故事。
- The driver of a giant banana has been pulled over 100s of times, but still won’t ditch his treasured ride.
- 一辆巨型香蕉车的司机被交警拦下过数百次，但他仍不愿放弃他珍爱的座驾。
- Ever wonder which albums and songs truly stand the test of time? The Greatest Music tries to answer that via an algorithm that analyses hundreds of “best of” lists.
- 想知道哪些专辑和歌曲真正经得起时间的考验吗？“最伟大的音乐”（The Greatest Music）试图通过一种算法来回答这个问题，该算法分析了数百份“最佳”榜单。