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Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement

Laskowski, Casandra and Buckingham, Richard and Marks, Taryn and Miguel-Stearns, Teresa M. and Niedringhaus, Kristina L. and Parsons, Patrick and Pike, George H., Building the Future of Law Libraries: Artificial Intelligence, Opportunities, and Advancement (October 13, 2025). Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 25-31, U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-32, Stanford Public …

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

Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta to spend $1 trillion in 2027 on AI

Ed Zitron: “…AI Revenues Are Pathetic and Circular, With OpenAI Representing 71%+ Of Microsoft’s AI Run Rate and Anthropic 80% of Amazon’s. While Meta and Google refuse to actually explain their AI returns, Microsoft revealed that it had $37 billion in AI revenue run rate — $3.08 billion a month or so — and Amazon …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Microsoft

Vibe Coding Authorship

ChatGPTisEatingtheWorld: “I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: “We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Chrome’s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

The Verge: “Here’s how you can find out, and get that storage back if you need it. Google Chrome may be taking up more of your storage than expected thanks to a large on-device AI model file that, in some cases, is being automatically downloaded to the browser’s system folders. Users who have noticed unexplained …

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

Trump ballroom project security funding included in $72B GOP enforcement bill

Follow up to Banquet of Greed: Trump Ballroom Donors Feast on Federal Funds and Favors – Craven Corruption – Via Politico: “Senate Republicans want to fund Secret Service security upgrades related to President Donald Trump’s ballroom project as part of a nearly $72 billion package that would shovel cash to immigration enforcement agencies. The proposal …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Courts, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation

Creepy Reality Behind the License Plate Cameras in Your Town

PCMag – “Those cameras you keep seeing? They’re run by Flock Safety, a private company that tracks more than just your car’s plates. Did you know that all those cameras you see on street corners in your neighborhood aren’t owned (and in some cases, aren’t monitored) by your local government or police department? Instead, the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Mark Zuckerberg sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier, book publishers

ChatGPTis EatingtheWorld: “Total U.S. copyright suits v. AI companies hit 105. Elsevier and other book publishers, along with Scott Turow, have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow …

Subjects: AI, Copyright, Courts, E-Records, Legal Research, Libraries, Search Engines, Social Media

DOJ Has Become Trump’s Personal Revenge Machine

Notice News: “Two new data points on the weaponization of federal law enforcement. First, the Justice Department is seeking the names of 2020 election workers in Georgia’s Fulton County (Huffington Post News) — a transparent attempt to build harassment or prosecution lists targeting people who administered the election Trump lost. Second, the U.S. attorney’s office …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, E-Government, E-Records, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

SEC proposed eliminating quarterly reporting requirement for public companies

Wall Street Journal via MSN: “Instead of three quarterly reports and one annual report for each fiscal year, companies would be able to choose to file one semiannual report and one annual report. The purpose? To let companies choose the reporting frequency that is best for them and their investors, the SEC said. Some investors …

Subjects: E-Records, Economy, Financial System, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research, Securities Law

Celebrating America’s 250th on Google Arts & Culture

Google Blog: “As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we are announcing a unique collaboration between the White House Task Force 250, the National Archives, the National Park Service and Google Arts & Culture. This milestone is a moment to reflect on the stories that define America’s unique history and the shared …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management