Dystopian Surveillance is Becoming a Reality. dallincrump.com

Open Chinese models close gap with Silicon Valley’s frontier AI models. arstechnica.com

More Americans worry tech will take their job, poll finds. semafor.com

NATO jets down drone in Lithuanian airspace. npr.org

Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Effort to Break Vote-By-Mail Before Midterms. talkingpointsmemo.com

Right now it’s very hard to give a sense of how much this makes software development a very different thing. How incredibly tedious it was to write a very large piece of software. The AI bot can load huge amounts of code into its memory and work on it, even if it never saw it before. x.com

The Supreme Court won’t allow midterm mail-in voting limits. npr.org

U.S. foreign policy, for all intents and purposes, hardly exists. It’s been replaced by random whims blurted out by an ignorant and easily confused amateur. ms.now

‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know. wapo.st

How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment. semafor.com