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The Verge [no paywall] – “Anthropic has updated Claude to perform tasks in its Code and Cowork AI tools autonomously by using your computer for you. The new feature can be used to automatically open files, use web browsers and apps, and run dev tools ‘with no setup required,’ even when you’re away from your …
Via LLRX – AI in Discovery: Some Tools Are Ready. Others Are Not. Generative AI is coming for legal work, whether lawyers like it or not, and much of what it brings will be genuinely useful. Discovery, though, is a different conversation. Jerry Lawson discuses why technology-assisted review (TAR), the old, reliable workhorse, should remain a …
“The Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the release of Transparency Hub, a user-friendly tool that aggregates policy documents and associated data of technology and social media companies allowing both researchers and users to search, compare, and analyze how policies have changed …
Via LLRX – Marcus P. Zillman’s extensive bibliography covers numerous subject matter specific AI prompt resources, guides, templates, methodologies and best practices take you across applications, and leans into expert sources from LinkedIn.
Via LLRX – The accountability premium – A lawyer’s ability to stand behind their legal work is a real advantage over legal AI. But for many clients, paying more to transfer risk to a lawyer is a luxury — and maybe soon, an unnecessary one. Jordan Furlong‘s opening keynote at ABA TECHSHOW March 26, 2026 in …
404 Media – “After months of heated debate and previous attempts to restrict the use of large language models on Wikipedia, on March 20 volunteer editors accepted a new policy that prohibits using them to create articles for the online encyclopedia. “Text generated by large language models (LLMs) often violates several of Wikipedia’s core content …
What is AnythingCounter? A live dashboard that shows real-time estimates of what happens every second in the digital world. You see numbers for AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing, e-waste, jobs lost to automation, and more. We take global statistics and turn them into counters that update continuously so you can watch digital activity in real time. …
tools.simonwillison.net colophon – Watch how different algorithms organize data, step by step. – Explore and compare different sorting algorithms through interactive animated visualizations that display how each algorithm organizes data in real-time. The tool allows you to adjust dataset size and animation speed, run individual algorithms step-by-step or continuously, and race multiple algorithms simultaneously to …
W.H. Lawrence: “Pete Hegseth just stepped into a sequence with no recorded escape. Every modern conviction, from Nuremberg to The Hague to Lyon, began the same way: a man in power, certain the rules did not apply. Every one of them was proven wrong. Nuremberg did not isolate liability to the officer who spoke the …
“According to the latest annual State of Antisemitism in America Report released by American Jewish Committee (AJC) on February 10, 2026, a majority of American Jews believe antisemitism has become a “very serious” problem at home. Protests like that one in November seem to illustrate some of the reasons why. This year’s survey revealed roughly …
Data is Beautiful – VeridionData – Top 20 Federal Government Contractor by Contract Value Sources: SAM.gov/FPDS FY2023 all-federal contract obligations, supplemented with FY2024 DoD data from Defense Security Monitor and Washington Technology Top 100. FY2023 because it’s the latest complete all-agency dataset publicly available. Subsidiaries rolled up under parent companies. I handle the sector labels; some companies straddle …
Lifehacker: “In the wake of the U.S.-Iran conflict and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the price of crude oil has risen sharply on the international market. Now, it’s starting to impact gasoline and diesel prices in the U.S., with increases at the pump of as much as 30% in some areas. Gas prices …
