The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers several major tech stories: a challenge to the Neanderthal DNA interbreeding theory by French geneticists; an op-ed arguing that 'humans in the loop' in AI warfare is an illusion since overseers can't understand what AI systems are actually doing; the White House negotiating access to Anthropic's Mythos model despite blacklisting the company; Sam Altman's conflict-of-interest concerns; a Starlink outage exposing Pentagon's SpaceX reliance; data center delays threatening AI expansion; Alibaba's world model release; OpenAI's Codex updates targeting Claude Code; and voice actors fighting Hollywood's AI push.