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# The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

**[MIT Technology Review](https://daily.dev/sources/technologyreview)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter covers: vermifiltration using worms and microbes to reduce manure pollution and greenhouse gas emissions; solar geoengineering moving from simulations to practical engineering challenges; the Trump administration lifting restrictions on OpenAI's GPT 5.6 ahead of a global launch; China considering curbing overseas access to its top AI models; DeepSeek developing its own AI chip; Meta testing AI glasses that disable privacy LEDs; SpaceX planning to launch a frontier model co-produced with Cursor; and a story on growing employee surveillance by app-based employers.

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