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Year in Review: AI Tools and Trends

JournalistsTookBox.AI: “2025 will be remembered as a year newsrooms really began to embrace AI tools and find innovative ways to implement them into their workflow. I’ve featured dozens of examples of award-winning AI projects on the Journalist’s Toolbox cool examples page. The year will also be remembered for Google’s surge ahead of OpenAI in the AI …

Subjects: AI, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The Private Equity Firms That Gobble Up Hospitals and Spit Them Out

The New Republic: “Looking to turn a quick profit, the firms buy medical facilities and then unload them just a few years later, often leaving devastation in their wake…For roughly the past 20 years, private equity firms have been on a buying spree of health care businesses, like hospitals, surgical centers, physician practices, nursing homes, …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Legal Research, Medicine

Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility

Reframing misinformation as informational-systemic risk in the age of societal volatility – Misinformation Review, December 22, 2025, Nuurrianti Jalli – “When a bank run, a pandemic, or an election spirals out of control, the spark is often informational. In 2023, rumors online helped accelerate the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. During COVID-19, false claims about vaccines …

Subjects: Congress, Economy, Education, Financial System, Government Documents, Health Care, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

How TikTok Is Distorting the Memory of the Holocaust

Der Spiegel Guest Editorial by Eva Berendsen – political scientist and head of the communication and online education department at the Anne Frank Educational Center in Frankfurt. She has written extensively about the effects of social media on memory an artificial intelligence’s influence on racism and anti-Semitism. “Imagine for a moment your 13‑year‑old child stumbling across …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines, Social Media

USPS Announces Changes to the Postmark Date System – Impacts Mail Ballots

Democracy Docket – “The United States Postal Service (USPS) finalized a rule on postmarks to reflect changes in its mail pickup processes that could cause an uptick in blown deadlines for documents sent by post, including mail-in ballots…By the time the overhaul is finished, it’ll affect pick-ups at roughly 24,000 of the country’s 33,700 post …

Subjects: E-Records, Free Speech, Government Documents, Legal Research

Lawyers Caught Misusing AI Fuel Emerging Legal Education Sector

Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “When a federal judge asked California solo practitioner William Becker Jr. to explain why a motion seemed to be riddled with AI-hallucinated citations, he knew what he needed to do. Becker, representing a defendant in a case involving former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, informed the judge that he’d taken “affirmative steps” …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Education, Legal Research

ChatGPT’s year-end review knows way too much. How to fix your privacy settings.

Washington Post [no paywall] – A clickable guide to the complicated privacy settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped. “Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The Department of Justice May Not Survive Pam Bondi

The New Republic: “At her confirmation hearing in January, Attorney General Pam Bondi tried to reassure senators about the job she would do as the nation’s top federal law-enforcement officer. Her “overriding objective,” Bondi said, would be to “return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back

The Atlantic Gift Article – The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble. “…The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments make up the Civil War and Reconstruction amendments. The Thirteenth abolished slavery except as punishment for a crime, but America needed to do more to prevent the resurgence of the slave-owning South’s caste-based society. The Fourteenth …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research

Some Audiobooks Are Outselling Hardcovers

Wall Street Journal and free via MSN: “During what has been a challenging year for publishers, audiobooks remain a relative bright spot. In some cases, the success of the audio version is about audiences getting to hear the story straight from its celebrity author. In others, it is about the drama and suspense of a …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Libraries