Day archives: June 17th, 2025

Trump Transcripts

Roll Call Factbase, powered by FiscalNote StressLens, allows users to search for, browse, read the transcripts and watch the video of Trump’s Interviews, Press Briefings, Press Conferences, Press Gaggles, Remarks, Speeches, and Vlogs. In a significant break from providing access to presidential documents, none of these government documents are posted on the White House website.

Subjects: Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act

CBO Dynamic Estimate: “The Congressional Budget Office and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) previously reported that H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed by the House of Representatives on May 22, would increase the primary deficit by $2.4 trillion over the 2025-2034 period. That estimate reflects a $3.7 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It’s Hobbling Future AI Development

Futurism – The rapid rise of ChatGPT — and the cavalcade of competitors’ generative models that followed suit — has polluted the internet with so much useless slop that it’s already kneecapping the development of future AI models. As the AI-generated data clouds the human creations that these models are so heavily dependent on amalgamating, …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Tyrant Test

The Atlantic [no paywall] – A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern. “Trump came into office promising to carry out a “mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants. Because of a degraded information environment riddled with right-wing propaganda, many Trump supporters came to think this meant …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Legal Research, Social Media

Artificial intelligence and defense are becoming increasingly intertwined

“Artificial intelligence and defense are becoming increasingly intertwined, especially in the US. OpenAI this week announced a $200 million Pentagon contract as part of a project to bring “advanced AI tools to [US] public servants.” In December, the ChatGPT-maker said it was working with the military tech company Anduril, while rival Anthropic is collaborating with …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Defense, Government Documents, Legal Research

COG Regional Crime Dashboard brings near real-time info about crime around the region

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments: “The COG Regional Crime Dashboard provides a high-level understanding of local and regional crime trends from recent days to 2002. The dashboard examines the following offenses against people and property: homicide, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, motor vehicle theft, burglary, and larceny. Real-time data in the crime dashboard is classified using …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Records, Legal Research

Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI Use on Children

The Alan Turing Institute and LEGO Foundation: “There is a growing body of research looking at the potential positive and negative impacts of generative AI and its associated risks. However, there is a lack of research that considers the potential impacts of these technologies on children, even though generative AI is already being deployed within …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Education, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management