Day archives: October 29th, 2025

Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled?

Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled?. Li Zhang, [email protected]. The full dataset can be accessed at https://github.com/lizhang-AIandLaw/Do-LLMs-Truly-Understand-When-a-Precedent-Is-Overruled. Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University. “Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains …

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Subjects: Courts, Education, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

404 Media – No Paywall: “You don’t got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike. The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during the day in what a video documenting the incident says is Chicago. …

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

How credible is that person on TikTok? Here’s a checklist.

API – “Trusting News has partnered with The Lenfest Institute’s Knight Communities Network and Project C to put together a Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit. It includes an ethics checklist to help assess whether creator journalists and influencers “are working to be fair and accurate,” writes Mollie Muchna. Link: Access the toolkit (Lenfest Institute) …

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Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Testing the top AI browsers – which ones actually impressed me

ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver…. BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS …

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

Labor Unions, EFF Sue Trump Administration to Stop Ideological Surveillance of Free Speech Online

EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …

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Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, Courts, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy

Space Type Generator

SPACE TYPE GENERATOR by Kiel Danger Mutschelknaus, is a motion and generative designer from Maryland. Kiel’s studio focuses around crafting generative tools to create bespoke typography, image, and motion work. His coding project, Space Type Generator, is an open source tool that allows users to create their own kinetic type experiments. There are 16 variations …

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Subjects: Internet

Everyone Is Laying People Off This Week. Researchers Say They’re Going to Regret It

Gizmodo: “The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount axed 1,000 people, Target let go of 1,800 employees, UPS said it will start a purge of 14,000 people with the aim of getting rid of 48,000 workers in total, and Meta …

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

Pentagon Directs All 50 States to Form National Guard Rapid-Response Units to Target ‘Civil Unrest’

The Hill: “The troops are to be trained in how to “form Squad-sized Riot Control Formation,” how to “employ a Riot Baton as a Member of a Riot Control Formation,” and how to “Supervise a Riot/Crowd Control Operation,” as well as de-escalation of force techniques, according to the memo…” A link to the memo is …

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Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Defense, Legal Research

Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing

Reuters: “Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was “profoundly embarrassed” after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, an 1,800-lawyer firm that had been representing a creditor …

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