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IEEE Spectrum – “Researchers are pushing beyond chain-of-thought prompting to new cognitive techniques. Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But toward the end of last year, there were rumblings that the …
The Littler Annual Employer Survey Report, May 25, 2025 – “It has been a turbulent start to 2025 as U.S. employers scramble to adapt to new executive orders, sweeping changes at federal agencies and a growing patchwork of workplace regulations at the state and local levels. To understand how businesses are navigating these disruptions, Littler …
The Hill: “President Donald Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden on Thursday, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill. Hayden was the first woman and the first African American to be Librarian of Congress. A spokesperson for the library told The Hill in an email that “Tonight, the White House informed …
Lifehacker: “The dark web, for the uninitiated among you, is a virtual neighborhood beyond the borders of the normal, everyday internet (which includes the website you’re looking at right now). It’s somewhere Google and Bing don’t index, and you need special tools to get to it. It’s a place where you’ll find data leaks and …
WSJ [no paywall]: “Scholars believe a language used 5,000 years ago on the Asian steppe was the source of many of the world’s modern tongues. Roughly five millennia ago, a small band of nomads set out from their homeland around the Black Sea. On the wide-open grasslands of the steppe, they honed their skills as …
Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 – 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5135305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5135305 “This article, based upon a keynote address by …
Conklin, Michael and Houston, Christopher, Measuring the Rapidly Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Scholarship (March 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5190385 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5190385 “The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on nearly every industry, including legal academia. As AI-driven tools like ChatGPT become more prevalent, they raise critical …
The Works in Progress Newsletter: “Creating the perfect vegetable Walk into a supermarket anywhere in the world and chances are you’ll be able to find a tomato in mere minutes. While technically a fruit, the tomato is more often grouped with vegetables because, due to its low sugar content, it is used more like a …
Musk Watch: “With Musk now preparing to scale back his work for the White House, he joined a farewell Cabinet meeting last Wednesday, during which he took credit for saving the federal government $160 billion. However, the real number appears to be much lower, particularly when considering how much DOGE could save taxpayers in future …
CNET – “President Donald Trump’s extensive new tariffs are expected to have huge, widespread effects on prices in the US, with more and more companies announcing price hikes for popular products. Recently, Microsoft announced price increases across its Xbox gaming brand, Canon announced that increases for its cameras are coming soon and toymaker Mattel warned of inevitable …
Critical Insights from FortiGuard Labs – 2025 Global Threat Landscape Report: “Our latest global threat landscape report uncovers how automation, AI, and stolen credentials are fueling faster, more scalable cyberattacks—outpacing defenders across industries and geographies.” Forbes: Warning – 19 Billion Compromised Passwords Have Been Published Online – “Imagine having access to 19,030,305,929 passwords that were …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “The goal — a centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information — would create a multitude of vulnerabilities, experts say. The U.S. DOGE Service is racing to build a single centralized database with vast troves of personal information about millions of …
