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Fast Company – no paywall – “Google is indexing conversations with ChatGPT that users have sent to friends, families, or colleagues—turning private exchanges intended for small groups into search results visible to millions. A basic Google site search using part of the link created when someone proactively clicks “Share” on ChatGPT can uncover conversations where …
Via LLRX – AI In Finance and Banking July 31, 2025. This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links …
UK. Law Commission: “The paper aims to raise awareness of legal issues regarding AI, prompting wider discussion of the topic, and to act as a step towards identifying those areas most in need of law reform. ” July 31, 2025.”…With the rapid development and improved performance of AI has come increased investment and wider and more …
YouTube / AP: “President Donald Trump’s paved makeover of the White House’s Rose Garden appears to be nearly finished. But this isn’t the first time the garden had a redesign.”
Via LLRX – Jerry Lawson reviews Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna’s new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want (Harper 2025).
“The United States of America (USA) remains on the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist following sustained attacks on civic freedoms. In the first six months of President Donald Trump’s second term, authorities have escalated suppression of protesters through military deployments, targeted journalists, criminalised dissent, and undermined civil society through legislative and financial restrictions. Freedoms guaranteed in the …
USA Today – no paywall: “…States’ libraries to lose as much as half their funding – The Institute for Museum and Library Services, a tiny, little known federal agency, provides grants to states, accounting for between 30% and 50% of state library budgets, according to the Chief Officers of State Library Agencies. For decades it …
CRS In Focus, IF13068, July 21, 2025. “Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are camera systems that capture the license plate data of vehicles, along with related information. They are generally available in fixed and mobile formats. Fixed ALPR systems are mounted in specific locations, often using existing infrastructure such as light poles, traffic lights, buildings, …
“We updated our Supreme Connections database with newly released financial disclosures from eight Supreme Court justices on Friday, covering the 2024 calendar year. Supreme Connections is our database that makes it easy for anyone to browse justices’ financial disclosures and to search for connections to people and companies mentioned within them. This update includes disclosures …
“The corporations on our annual list of the world’s 500 largest companies combined to generate $41.7 trillion in revenue in 2024, up 1.8% from the previous year. Together, they employ 70.1 million people, and their revenue represents more than one-third of the world’s GDP. The Global 500 earned $2.98 trillion in profit in its second-most-profitable …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “When a large share of a city’s canopy is made up of just a few types of trees, the ecological benefits that trees offer are at greater risk of being lost. It is analogous to putting all your eggs in one basket, explained ecologist Emma Hudgins. “Places that have more [tree] …
TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL for Tax Administration – Snapshot Report: IRS Workforce Reductions as of May 2025, July 18, 2025. Report Number: 2025-IE-R027. Snapshot Report: IRS Workforce Reductions as of May 2025 – “According to the IRS, 25,386 employees have separated or taken a DRP incentive, while 294 employees have been sent termination notices due to …
