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Forbes: A patent granted to Google on January 27, 2026 titled “AI-generated content page tailored to a specific user” describes a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. …
Map showing light pollution across the world – www.lightpollutionmap.info is a mapping application that displays light pollution related content. The primary use was to show VIIRS/DMSP data in a friendly manner, but over the many years it received also some other interesting light pollution related content like SQM/SQC measurements, Sky brightness, almost realtime clouds, aurora prediction …
Anthropic: “Last December, tens of thousands of Claude users around the world had a conversation with our AI interviewer share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. For the first time, AI has enabled us to collect rich, open‑ended interviews at extraordinary scale. We …
Via LLRX – When Your Biggest Client Starts Eating Your Firm – Josh Kubick identifies a significant risk that will impact large law firm services to global enterprise wide clients. As Kubicki details, the single largest buyer of elite legal services in the world is now funding the construction of an AI law firm designed to …
Seth Chandler – “Something remarkable has happened in the last few months, and most of the legal academy has not noticed. Anthropic’s Claude—the AI assistant many of us have experimented with for drafting, brainstorming, and analysis—can now directly control a web browser. That means Claude can log into Westlaw or Lexis, run searches, read cases, …
The Atlantic No Paywall – “After deliberating for nine days—and emerging at one point to tell the judge that it was having a difficult time reaching a decision—a jury in Los Angeles finally returned its verdict today, finding both Meta and Google liable for creating addictive products that caused a young woman’s mental-health problems. The …
Scott McFarlane/AP – Memos, documents released under GOP-led Arctic Frost probe raise new questions about Mar-a-Lago classified records case. In an inquiry released this morning, the ranking member of the US House Judiciary Committee alleges the investigation into then-ex-President Trump’s retention of classified records at Mar-a-Lago found possible evidence Trump showed a classified map to …
EFF – Little Is Known About AI That Could Affect Millions of Seniors’ Care: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeking records about a multi-state program that is using AI to evaluate requests for medical care. “Tasking an …
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – Hana Lee Goldin is a expert “human” pathfinder who shares her extensive knowledge with an expanding cadre of people seeking to adopt AI in all facets of work and life. In her article, Goldin deftly illuminates one of the major risks of ChatGPT. …
AP: “…Even if a device can’t be refurbished, manufacturers are still a good first place to check, experts say. “The manufacturers are where we want this stuff to end up because they know their products, they know best and most efficiently how to recycle them,” Neitzel said. Retailers such as Best Buy and Staples accept …
Cities and Memory: “Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Each sound in the project is recomposed and reimagined by artists, as they reflect on how the sounds of our world are changing and …
How to find and vet credible data sources you can use right away – NICAR 2026 meeting – Slide Deck by Stephanie Lamm, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; Greg Morton, Baltimore Banner; Sean Mussenden, University of Maryland. A new source I learned about via this presentation – WONDER online databases utilize a rich ad-hoc query system for …
