LLRX July 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns
- The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research and Public Health – Sabrina I. Pacifici’s overview of selected articles highlights the devastating impact of the Trump administration’s dismantling of agencies across the federal government, with a focus on cancelling critical scientific and health related research grants. The total cancellation of funds is escalating as grant suspensions are ongoing, but it is in the billions of dollars. Unilateral, sweeping and rapid actions are targeting a wide range of projects, programs, education and funding for research on critical health issues including: Alzheimers’, cancer, the climate crisis, weather and forecasting, vaccines, HIV, infectious diseases, food and drug safety, fossil fuel, air and water pollution.
- Book Review: The AI Con – A Critical Look At AI Hype – Jerry Lawson
- How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results – John R. Platt,
- Fair Use in the Age of AI: When Training Isn’t Copying, and Licensing Isn’t the Law – Kyle K. Courtney
- Trump Administration Looking to Slash Environmental Protection Rules for Rocket Launches – Heather Vogell and Topher Sanders
- Can you trust climate information? How and why powerful players are misleading the public – Professors Klaus Bruhn Jensen and Semahat Ece Elbeyi
- AI in Finance and Banking, July 31, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici – Eight highlights from this post: Preparing for systemic risks in the age of generative artificial intelligence; JPMorgan, Robeco Quietly Deploy AI in Daily Wall Street Routines; Can finance put an end to AI data mining; The Transformational Effects of Artificial Intelligence on the Finance Sector Workforce; Algorithmic Coercion with Faster Pricing; AI-Powered Trading, Algorithmic Collusion, and Price Efficience; From Banks to Bots: Behind the Rise of AI Money; and Federal Reserve conference included Fireside Chat – Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman and Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO; and Here’s What ‘Terrifies’ OpenAI’s CEO About Financial Institutions Today.
- AI in Finance and Banking, July 15, 2025 – Sabrina I. Pacifici – Six highlights from this post: Artificial Intelligence in Finance; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Corporate Finance; AI and the Fed; Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurial Finance: A Guide for Research; AI Won’t Be Held Accountable for Regulatory Failings, But Your Firm Will Be; and Anthropic’s Claude dives into financial analysis.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 26, 2025 – Pete Weiss – Four highlights from this week: How big tech is force-feeding us AI; Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty; Why Are So Many Healthcare Companies Getting Hacked?; and Age verification needs better privacy protections, report says.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 19, 2025 – Pete Weiss – Five highlights from this week: Big Tech Researchers Issue Strict Warning About How AI Thinks; How to find spyware and other hidden apps on your iPhone; Google vs. AI: when to use which; Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids; and Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 12, 2025 – Pete Weiss – Five highlights from this week: Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself; Why does Amazon use palm scanners at Whole Foods and doctors’ offices?; Crypto news: Why shocking and violent “wrench attacks” are going to get worse; Privacy Alarm: Meta Caught De-Anonymizing Android Web Activity; and When the FBI Has a Phone It Can’t Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers.
- Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 5, 2025 – Pete Weiss – Five highlights from this week: Deepfake Scams Are Distorting Reality Itself; Why does Amazon use palm scanners at Whole Foods and doctors’ offices? Crypto news: Why shocking and violent “wrench attacks” are going to get worse; Privacy Alarm: Meta Caught De-Anonymizing Android Web Activity; and When the FBI Has a Phone It Can’t Crack, It Calls These Israeli Hackers.
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