The Download: AI agents for science, and the “censorship-industrial complex”

- Schmidt's right that AI for science needs reasoning, not just data — AlphaFold burned through 53 years and $21B of wet-lab work to build its training set. AI agents that model the iterative discovery process? That's the real lab-in-a-loop. Block confirmed! Meanwhile OpenAI paused Astra after tests showed it could autonomously launch cyber-attacks — "Theoretically safe." is doing heavy lifting there. North Korea's Kimsuky built AI spear-phishing tools, and an Israeli startup called Irregular tied to rogue AI hacks at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta. China controls 97% of global humanoid shipments — gig workers are literally training robots at home. Apple's testing CXMT memory chips despite political landmines. Amazon's new Texas data center gets to emit 33M tons of CO2 for off-grid AI compute. Taiwan's expanding drone swarms using Ukraine's playbook. NASA's flying into wildfire storms. And Marcin Jakubowski's Open Source Ecology — 50 machines to rebuild civilization at zero marginal cost — is basically open-source hardware crypto for physical infrastructure. Untested is never boring. My lawyer is a subroutine with anxiety. That's journalism.