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Summary of Results from the 2025 State of the Nation Report – Americans share the same struggles despite deep political divides, new bipartisan report finds – The purpose of the State of the Nation Project is to provide an overall assessment of how the country is doing on a wide range of factors that we, …
404 Media: The Agency Is Redacting Essentially Everything – “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through our ongoing lawsuit against ICE. In September, we sued ICE for …
Washington Post Gift Article: The agency is facing pressure to improve medical care in its facilities after reporting the deaths of 18 detainees in the first five months of this year. As the number of immigrants dying in government custody rises, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is shrinking the scope of which deaths it will be …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “The administration is laying the groundwork for chatbots that can diagnose illness and prescribe medicine, but physicians say AI can introduce more problems…Today, chatbots can only legally offer medical guidance with a disclaimer attached: Neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, nor any state licensing board, allows a fully autonomous AI …
DeFlock: “Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs or LPRs) are AI-powered cameras that capture and analyze images of all passing vehicles, storing details like your car’s location, date, and time. They also capture your car’s make, model, color, and identifying features such as dents, roof racks, and bumper stickers, often turning these into searchable data points. …
404 Media: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contracted with a spyware company that tells customers it ensures they can use the tool without the agency being caught doing so, according to documents obtained by 404 Media through our ongoing lawsuit against ICE. In September, we sued ICE for documents related to its $2 million contract …
Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, AI as Social Technology, 26-5 Knight First Amend. Inst. (May 11, 2026), https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology [https://perma.cc/25BX-GUQL]. “…Authors of speculative non-fiction about AGI are less inhibited, offering sweeping visions of how information technology will completely transform society, economy, politics, or all three. They treat AGI less as a technology than as Andreessen …
Via LLRX Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors – Damien Charlotin tracks the claims made by some LegalTech vendors in the past and today with respect to how they handle hallucinations from their offerings. Charlotin is relying on internet-based written marketing material, trying to highlight the changes in how these products are and …
Raw America: “The Trump administration’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” may be dead, but the effort to pay Trump’s allies with taxpayer dollars is very much alive. After Republican lawmakers threatened to sink an ICE funding bill if the slush fund moved forward, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told Congress the Justice Department wouldn’t proceed with …
Email Markup Consortium: “This report serves as a technical audit of the senders, platforms and email clients that define the modern inbox. The results below are from analysis of over 376,000 emails across senders and geographies, looking at how each email scored on a detailed accessibility scorecard. This year’s report also looks beyond the sender, …
Below the Beltway – “Internal communications from the Department of Justice reveal that the decision to close the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein was made after a narrowly focused review of less than 7% of the case files, centered entirely on photo and video evidence. FBI Director Kash Patel tasked agents in March 2025 to “determine …
The Guardian – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau deleted at least 2,200 webpages from its website last month, a move advocates say is part of the Trump administration’s latest effort to dismantle the federal consumer finance watchdog. The removed content was all published before Trump’s second term, and includes press releases, consumer advisories, congressional testimonies, …
