A Political Atlas of the World
1st Experiments with WebMapperGPT. Steven Feldman reports on his experiments with mapping LLMs. The result is available here. [h/t quantum of sollazzo]
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Trump’s Battle With Big Law Firms Heads Into 2026: What to Know
Bloomberg Law: “There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires. Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Susman Godfrey, WilmerHale, and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison …
The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 6
Via LLRX – The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 6 – As we approach January 20, 2026, the one year mark of the second Trump administration, Americans are witnessing the exercise of vast, often illegal and unconstrained presidential powers, unprecedented in our history. The impact of …
NotebookLM for Lawyers: AI That Focuses on Your Documents
Via LLRX – NotebookLM for Lawyers: AI That Focuses on Your Documents – This comprehensive article by Bonnie Shucha explores and demonstrates the capabilities of Google’s NotebookLM, a free document-grounded AI tool designed to work exclusively with the materials you upload, and discusses what it means for an AI to be document grounded, why that matters for …
How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian
Via LLRX – How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian – AI has flooded the zone, overwhelming one on one human knowledge sharing. In this article Hana Lee Goldin returns the focus to the art of the reference interview. When someone has a research or information based request, librarians are trained to figure …
The Librarian as a Trusted (Human) Assistant
Via LLRX – The Librarian as a Trusted (Human) Assistant – Jennifer Chapman concisely conveys the importance of identifying for patrons that AI’s confidence doesn’t equal competence. Chapman states that as law librarians we are naturally skeptical of certainty. The law teaches us to question everything, and library school teaches us how to verify everything. We, not …
Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet: The Best Tips for Lawyers on AI, Marketing, IT Security and Productivity
Via LLRX – Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet: The Best Tips for Lawyers on AI, Marketing, IT Security and Productivity – Jerry Lawson advocates consulting more than one AI app when dealing with important issues. Multiple AI perspectives help with high-stakes questions, unsettled law, or anything involving tax regulations. When two models agree, you gain …
Instagram CEO says in the age of AI, you can’t assume what you see online is real
TechSpot: ‘At the close of 2025, Instagram head Adam Mosseri used his personal account to post a 20-page presentation examining what he called the “new era of infinite synthetic content.” The slideshow, which reads like a digital memo to the future of photography, argues that technology has permanently blurred the distinction between authentic and artificial …
Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Parts I & 2)
Via LLRX – Like Lawyers In Pompeii: Is Legal Ignoring The Coming AI Infrastructure Crisis? (Part I) – Stephen Embry and Melissa Rogo Rogozinski identify the multiple risk factors involved in the increasing usage of AI in the legal sector, including infrastructure gaps between chip capacity, demand for energy sources and building new data centers, …
AI in Finance and Banking, December 31, 2025
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, December 31, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers’ eyes, voices and faces
Gothamist: “Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data from anyone who enters its supermarkets, according to new signage posted at the chain’s Manhattan and Brooklyn locations earlier this month. Anyone entering the store could have data on their face, eyes and voices collected and stored by the Rochester-headquartered supermarket chain. The information …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 4, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the …
