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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 …
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. …
404 Media no paywall: “WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. In some cases, people only found out that their Zoom calls were recorded once WebinarTV reached out …
Thomson Reuters, tom Martin – “At every legal technology conference, the same promise rings out: AI will automate the drudgery so lawyers can focus on what really matters. While it’s a seductive vision, it’s also contradicted by the best research we have on what actually happens when knowledge workers adopt these tools. Key points: The …
Simon Willison – “If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of combining tools with the following three characteristics. Failing to understand this can let an attacker steal your data. The lethal trifecta of …
Ars Technica: “Assume the NRC is going to do whatever we tell the NRC to do. Last summer, a group of officials from the Department of Energy gathered at the Idaho National Laboratory, a sprawling 890-square-mile complex in the eastern desert of Idaho where the US government built its first rudimentary nuclear power plant in …
Art Discovery Engine – The Tenth Muse is an art discovery engine. Over 120,000 artworks from museums and institutions — searchable by feeling, mood, atmosphere, era, and medium. Every piece links back to its original source. 95% are public domain. Nothing here is generated. It’s discovery, not creation. The best experience is on desktop, but …
Wired – no paywall: “Like many tech founders, Kyle Law learned some hard lessons getting a company off the ground. I know this better than anyone, as he and I cofounded HurumoAI, an AI agent startup, together with a third founder, Megan Flores. Kyle and Megan, as it happens, are themselves AI agents, as is …
Commoncog – Cedric Chin: How to Make Sense of AI – Table of Contents The Method Why Does This Work? How to Start Putting This to Practice Wrapping Up “It is 2026 and AI hype is everywhere. If you’re like most people, you’re probably feeling some fear that you’re falling behind. Perhaps your fellow company …
The New York Times Gift Article – New A.I. bots can do more than just chat. They can edit files, send emails, book trips and cause trouble. “…The bots can gather information from across the internet, write reports, edit files or even send and receive messages through email and text — driving online conversations largely …
TechCrunch: “Digital meeting notetakers like Read AI, Fireflies.ai, Fathom, and Granola help record and transcribe online meetings. But for in-person or more versatile options, many people prefer physical recording devices. These physical notetakers transcribe audio and give users summaries and action items of meetings using AI. Some of these devices are wearable — pins or …
