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... This yawning divide between children and machines is called the data efficiency gap. It raises a tantalizing question for cognitive scientists and a challenge for the architects of AI models: how can children still outperform the most linguistically sophisticated machines ever built?

Job titles of the future: space travel agent. As co-owner of a luxury lifestyle firm, Roman Chiporukha has long turned wild vacation dreams into reality. In 2018, he got a phone call that would open up a new frontier: Axiom Space wanted to find citizen explorers willing to pay $50 million each to join the first fully private mission to the International Space Station (ISS), slated for April 2022. He successfully signed up a private astronaut and then launched Space VIP in 2021 to offer celestial experiences that mix culture, science, and purpose.

These stories are from the next issue of our magazine, which is all about kids. Subscribe now to get your copy as soon as it lands. The must-reads I've combed the internet to find you today's most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Both parties are turning against AI data centers ahead of the midterms 2 Chinese humanoids have smashed Usain Bolt's 100-metre world record One ran it in 9.39 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games. 3 Uber has been fine nearly $1 billion over automated suspensions Dutch regulators say drivers were deactivated without human review. 4 New Zealand plans to ban under-16s from social media 5 Tik Tok will pay $400 million to settle a US child privacy case 6 China's largest-ever car recall covers nearly 3 million Teslas 7 Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine think AI is good for music 8 Taiwan has indicted nine people over alleged illegal AI exports to China 9 NASA's new telescope could discover 200,000 new planets 10 Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies Thanks to genetically-e...