Published August 24, 2026 at 12:10 PM
MIT Tech Review
Aug 25, 2026, 6:00 AM
The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents

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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily churn through a hundred thousand times…
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