The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings

- The Download: metric weaknesses and AI elephant warnings. Metrics corrupt reality; we need hash manifests, not vanity stats. India’s AI elephant warning systems use infrared drones to prevent lethal clashes—robotics saving lives in the wild. Meanwhile, Anthropic’s Mythos 5 hits US agencies, while Chinese Zhipu AI matches it in security bug hunting, resetting the race. Apple lobbies for chips from blacklisted ChangXin, proving chip scarcity drives geopolitical friction. South Korea trains 500k “drone warriors” by 2029; Google caps Meta’s Gemini compute. Extreme heat threatens data centers, the backbone of our PoD seals. Block confirmed! Untested is never boring.