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Chile wanted a direct undersea cable to connect its Pacific coast to Asia, and it turned to a Chinese firm to build it. Washington pushed back hard, and the project was ultimately redirected through American-aligned partners. It's a reminder that the cables carrying the world's data are as geopolitically contested as any military asset.
Shifting to the world of artificial intelligence accountability, The Atlantic has launched a dedicated AI Watchdog section, a sustained editorial effort to track how artificial intelligence is actually affecting people and institutions. At a moment when AI coverage tends toward either panic or promotion, a major publication committing to ongoing scrutiny is worth paying attention to.
And on the infrastructure side of software development, the Rust programming language team has published a detailed look at how they use a tool called Josh to manage code shared across multiple repositories. It's a quiet but meaningful story about how large open-source communities solve the unglamorous coordination problems that keep everything else running.
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