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Brainyacts: “What we know so far: Some users got access to a new tool called “Study together”, which acts differently and guides you through the study process step by step. penAI is preparing a new feature called “Study together”, which has started appearing in system hints for some users within ChatGPT’s main prompt, alongside familiar …
Artificial Lawyer: “A major survey by Axiom of 600+ senior inhouse lawyers across eight countries on AI adoption has found that 66% of them are using ‘raw’ LLM chatbots such as ChatGPT, and only between 7% and 17% are using bona fide legal AI tools made for this sector. There is something terrible about this, …
404 Media: “Agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have gained access to a massive database of health and car insurance claims and are using it to track down people they want to deport, according to internal ICE material viewed by 404 Media. The database, which contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims …
American Prospect – Robert Kuttner: “Once again, the Supreme Court has issued an extreme ruling, this time upholding President Trump’s right to order mass firings of government employees, in plain violation of Congress’s authority. And once again, the Court relied on the so-called shadow docket, issuing an emergency procedure staying lower-court injunctions, allowing the justices …
Reuters – no paywall: “OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s, market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters. The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse …
CNN Reliable Sources: “The loss of local news relates to so many other problems plaguing the US: Polarization, radicalization, loneliness, lack of trust in everyone and everything. So it’s vital to track the so-called “news deserts” — and recognize that these deserts exist not just in rural areas, but also in highly populated parts of …
WSJ: “Publishers are stepping up efforts to protect their websites from tech companies that hoover up content for new AI tools. The media companies have sued, forged licensing deals to be compensated for the use of their material, or both. Many asked nicely for artificial-intelligence bots to stop scraping. Now, they are working to block …
Paul Krugman: “Whenever natural disaster — like the flash flood that just killed large numbers of people, many of them children, in Texas — strikes, we can count on a quick response from officials, both federal and state, who arguably could or should have done something to avert or minimize the disaster. Namely, there will …
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Ken Klippenstein – “Jeffrey Epstein Had 1,000+ Victims. Industrial scale abuse enterprise far larger than previously believed is revealed in new document. Twenty years after Jeffrey Epstein was exposed for his child sex abuse enterprise, the Justice Department this week made a startling revelation. Rather than the “dozens” of victims previously alleged by the government …
Atlantic Council: “As its adversaries wage an information war, the United States is retreating from the front lines. Washington has dismantled key programs for countering foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI), such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Foreign Influence Task Force. This leaves a dangerous vacuum in the US national defense posture. If left …
MakeUseOf: “Coming back to Last.fm after being away for years felt like stepping into a familiar space that had somehow gotten better with age. The magic of Last.fm lies in its transparent and organic approach to finding the music you like. Unlike Spotify’s black-box algorithm, Last.fm shows me exactly how its recommendations work. When I …
