Like a prayer, kinda

China is found to be rapidly growing and improving its nuclear arsenal. / The New York Times [$]

European diplomats say Donald Trump has fundamentally changed transatlantic ties. / Politico

Attorney General Pam Bondi acknowledges that the White House has a list of Americans deemed domestic terrorists, including “antifa.” / The Intercept

The Pentagon threatens to cancel its Claude contract over Anthropic’s limits on fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance. / TechCrunch

See also: “Where There Is Connectivity There Is Surveillance.” / Noema

A lot of people are talking about AI’s role in the workplace as though we’re in the early days of a pandemic. / Read Max

In case you missed it: “Something Big Is Happening.” / X

How to know if a romance novel was written by AI? Look for the phrase “like a ragged prayer.” / The New York Times [$]

See also: An AI agent wrote and published a hit piece about an engineer. A major news outlet (Ars Technica) published a story about it, then had to apologize for using AI to draft the story (which contained hallucinations). / The Shamblog

Five charts explain the weather during this strange, historic US winter. / The Wall Street Journal [$]

Yet another Olympic Games suffers from a condom shortage. / The Associated Press

Photographs depict a day in the life of what’s said to be Asia’s largest fresh-cut flower market. / Sixth Tone

A trend article says the hotel bakery is the new hotel bar. “Chalk it up to ‘little treat’ culture.” / Bloomberg [$] 

Unrelated: “The aspirational pantry is a scam,” and “I don’t know about these fancy bathhouses, man.” / Dwell, Highsnobiety

And in case this is news to you, no, there will not be a Centre Pompidou museum in New Jersey. / The Art Newspaper

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