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PwC’s 29th Global CEO Survey Leading through uncertainty in the age of AI

Among the key findings from this year’s survey: Most CEOs say their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from investments in AI. Although close to a third (30%) report increased revenue from AI in the last 12 months and a quarter (26%) are seeing lower costs, more than half (56%) say they’ve realised neither …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Education, Financial System, Knowledge Management

Presidential 2025 Tariff Actions: Timeline and Status

CRS Reports – Presidential 2025 Tariff Actions: Timeline and Status. R48549. 01/12/2026 “Since the beginning of his second term on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump has increased tariffs on U.S. imports from all global partners. To implement these tariffs, the President has cited authorities in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA, 50 …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data

Politico: “Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data. Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing. Two members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with an advocacy group seeking to “overturn election results in …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Courts, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research, Legislation, Privacy

Global Water Bankruptcy – Living Beyond our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era

Press release: “Published on the occasion of UNU-INWEH’s 30th anniversary, and ahead of the 2026 UN Water Conference, this flagship report, Global Water Bankruptcy: Living Beyond Our Hydrological Means in the Post-Crisis Era, argues that the world has entered a new stage: more and more river basins and aquifers are losing the ability to return …

Subjects: Climate Change, Economy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents, Legal Research

You Can Remove Your Personal Info From Google Search

PC Mag: “If bad actors get their hands on your personally identifiable information (PII), they can use it to swindle, impersonate, or even endanger you on the internet—and in the real world. One of the prime places to find PII is on Google, and while Google can’t stop that info from appearing on other websites, …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Parts III and IV)

Via LLRX Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part III) Before the volcano erupts, smart lawyers may want to think twice about investing too heavily in AI or thinking it’s a panacea for all problems – by Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogozinsk. All four parts of this series are …

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

Google Starts Scanning Your Photos For People And Places

Forbes: “Google has now confirmed the biggest upgrade to Gemini we have seen. This is the culmination of recent iterations, and sees AI link all your Google platforms together to personalize its offering. For some this is a game-changer. For others, it’s terrifying. This upgrade comes first to Google’s AI subscribers in the U.S., but …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

The Guardian – Cory Doctorow: “When the AI-investment mania halts, most of those models are going to disappear, because it just won’t be economical to keep the datacenters running. As Stein’s law has it: “Anything that can’t go on forever eventually stops.” The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Legal Research

Trump canceled, stopped corporate enforcement in his first year – many were donors

During the First Year of Trump’s Second Term, Federal Agencies Canceled and Froze Enforcement Against 166 Alleged Corporate Lawbreakers. Since day one of President Trump’s second term, Public Citizen’s Corporate Enforcement Tracker has monitored federal enforcement actions brought against corporations that Trump inherited from the Biden administration. These enforcement actions include investigations, enforcement lawsuits, and …

Subjects: Censorship, Courts, Cybersecurity, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Securities Law, Transportation

What’s Going on With the Epstein Files? Less than 1 percent of them have been released.

The Atlantic “If the Justice Department has legitimate reasons for its delay, it hasn’t thoroughly explained what they are. In a letter yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other DOJ officials framed the problem as purely logistical, citing “inevitable glitches due to the sheer volume of materials.” They noted that the department has put “over …

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