The Download: how the World Cup ball will fly and OpenAI’s “super app”

This newsletter covers multiple AI and tech developments, including OpenAI's plans to transform ChatGPT into a 'super app' (an all-in-one application combining multiple tools and services) before going public, Google's $30 billion deal with SpaceX for AI computing power, and concerns about AI's rising energy costs and environmental impact. It also reports on facial recognition tools being deployed by immigration enforcement, fears about 'recursive self-improvement' (AI systems automatically improving their own capabilities), and how machine learning is helping historians analyze historical records while introducing risks of bias and errors.