Shifting alliances in a changing world
Thompson's weekly digest synthesizes the week's threads: a new kind of computing, Elon Musk, and 360 degrees of US–China relations after Trump's Beijing trip.
The stack
3 picks · curated
Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI rolled Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users kick off coding tasks from a phone and pick them up later on desktop. It's pitched as ambient, asynchronous coding rather than another IDE plug-in.
The sigmoids won't save you
Scott pushes back on the cottage industry of 'AI will plateau soon' arguments grounded in S-curves. His point: a sigmoid that flattens at superhuman capability still ends the world you knew.
Tech & capital
Hacker News · 77 c · 182 pts
A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10
Hacker News · 112 c · 419 pts
First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5
Reuters · Reuters exclusive · today
At Samsung, the global AI boom spurred a looming strike and deep divisions
AP Wire · AP · yesterday
From Cisco to Block, more companies are pointing to AI when unveiling job cuts
The wire
AP Wire · AP · today
Supreme Court preserves access to widely used abortion pill
NPR · NPR · today
Key takeaways from Trump's China trip
AP Wire · AP · today
UK health secretary resigns, setting up a potential Labour leadership challenge to Starmer
Faith
Mere Orthodoxy · Mere Orthodoxy · essay
Crisis and covenant
Christianity Today · Christianity Today · today
As Russia strikes Ukrainian churches, worship goes on
Christianity Today · Christianity Today · review
Revolution, revelation, and the American dream
Slow reads
Marginal Revolution · Marginal Revolution · short
Philosophical ideas behind their time
Marginal Revolution · Marginal Revolution · short
Christopher Nolan, Straussian?
Mere Orthodoxy · Mere Orthodoxy · long