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 It’s been replaced by random whims blurted out by an ignorant and easily confused amateur ms.now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

Matt Mullenweg Returns as Automattic CEO With ‘Full Support of the Board’ — But Who’s On It Remains Unclear therepository.email

Woodstock Film Festival Co-Founder Meira Blaustein to Step Down theoverlooknews.com

"The users know that podcasting == user choice." scripting.com

Anthropic CEO calls for ‘pacing the frontier’ of AI race amid safety concerns cnn.com

Jimmy Kimmel's James Talarico Interview Hits 5 Million YouTube Views. #streisandEffec variety.com

Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage nytimes.com

Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff, saying he's back in control after CEO ouster techcrunch.com

Jimmy Kimmel, James Talarico and the FCC’s Muzzling of the Media talkingpointsmemo.com

What happened the last times Trump pitched direct payments to Americans wapo.st

Republican chief election officials say it is too late to implement Trump’s mail ballot order politico.com

Automattic Minus Matt: Mullenweg’s Forced Break tedium.co

Exploring Muse: Meta's New Personal AI Assistant in Action sjl.us

Trump’s $5k bribe offer is a great reason to vote against Trump, even if repubs win he’ll never pay it, and it isn’t his money to give out, it’s ours bbc.com