The Download: Pokémon Go trains real robots, and the US-China race to find aliens.

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MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers several tech stories: Niantic Spatial is leveraging Pokémon Go's crowdsourced AR data to build world models that help delivery robots navigate more precisely. NASA's Mars Sample Return mission is struggling, effectively ceding the lead in the search for alien life to China. Other highlights include AI-generated fakes about the Iran conflict flooding X with Grok failing to flag them, Anthropic's legal battle against Pentagon blacklisting, Meta acquiring bot-only social network Moltbook, and big tech exploring AI compute as employee compensation.

The Download: Pokémon Go to train world models, and the US-China race to find aliens