Day archives: September 7th, 2025

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Ars Technica: “Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data. Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is “believed …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

New Study: How Often Do AI Assistants Hallucinate Links? (16 Million URLs Studied)

ahrefsblog: “AI assistants like ChatGPT and Claude can hallucinate URLs and direct visitors to non-existent pages on your website. But how often does it happen? To find out, we looked at the http status of 16 million unique URLs cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, and Mistral. We found that AI assistants send visitors …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

Save an entire web page as a single HTML file with just one click.

“SingleFile is a browser extension that allows you to save an entire web page, including all its resources (e.g., images, stylesheets, fonts, frames, etc.), as a single HTML file with just one click. The saved page can be displayed offline in any browser without needing to install any extension. Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google AI Mode may become default Google Search experience soon

Search Engine Land: “Logan Kilpatrick, lead product manager for Google, said on Friday that Google’s AI Mode will be the “default” search experience for Google Search “soon.” We know Google said AI Mode is the future of Google Search, Liz Reid, the head of Google Search announced that in May 2025. And now that may …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Breaking The Creepy AI in Police Cameras

Premiered on YouTube August 26, 2025 [Note this video includes commercial interruptions] – “If you live in the United States, it’s very likely that a private startup has been logging and sharing your vehicle’s location without your consent. In this video we explore how AI can defend against being tracked by 3rd party police and …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2025

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 6, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, Privacy

Army extends orders for DC National Guard through Nov. 30

ABC News: “The Army is extending orders for the Washington, D.C., National Guard to remain on active duty in the nation’s capital through Nov. 30, two U.S. officials told ABC News Thursday. President Donald Trump could still cut the mission shorter than Nov. 30 if desired — or extend the deployment past that date, the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Free Speech, Legal Research