Category «AI»

Year in Review: AI Tools and Trends

JournalistsTookBox.AI: “2025 will be remembered as a year newsrooms really began to embrace AI tools and find innovative ways to implement them into their workflow. I’ve featured dozens of examples of award-winning AI projects on the Journalist’s Toolbox cool examples page. The year will also be remembered for Google’s surge ahead of OpenAI in the AI …

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

Lawyers Caught Misusing AI Fuel Emerging Legal Education Sector

Bloomberg Law [no paywall]: “When a federal judge asked California solo practitioner William Becker Jr. to explain why a motion seemed to be riddled with AI-hallucinated citations, he knew what he needed to do. Becker, representing a defendant in a case involving former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, informed the judge that he’d taken “affirmative steps” …

Subjects: AI, Courts, Education, Legal Research

ChatGPT’s year-end review knows way too much. How to fix your privacy settings.

Washington Post [no paywall] – A clickable guide to the complicated privacy settings for ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini and Meta AI. ChatGPT has been pushing its own year-end review like Spotify Wrapped. “Your year with ChatGPT” describes what you asked the bot in poems and pictures. It also reveals a giant hole in your privacy. …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The text file that runs the internet

The Verge: “For three decades, a tiny text file has kept the internet from chaos. This text file has no particular legal or technical authority, and it’s not even particularly complicated. It represents a handshake deal between some of the earliest pioneers of the internet to respect each other’s wishes and build the internet in …

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

Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves.

404 Media: “I am standing on the corner of Harris Road and Young Street outside of the Crossroads Business Park in Bakersfield, California, looking up at a Flock surveillance camera bolted high above a traffic signal. On my phone, I am watching myself in real time as the camera records and livestreams me—without any password …

Subjects: AI, Civil Liberties, E-Records, Legal Research, Privacy, Transportation

How AI coding agents work and what to remember if you use them

Ars Technica: “AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools are not magic and can complicate rather than simplify a software project. Understanding how they work under the hood can …

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

An electricity crunch is driving high bills in these states. It’s not getting better anytime soon

CNN – no paywall – “Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high electricity bills just got some bad news: Relief is not on the way. As CNN recently reported, utility customers in Maryland and Washington, DC, are some of the first in the country to …

Subjects: AI, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Legal Research

Measuring the Impact of Floods and Wildfires from Space

Data Innovations: Researchers at IBM Europe and the European Space Agency have released ImpactMesh, a global, open dataset focused on measuring the impact of extreme floods and wildfires. The team collected satellite images from Europe’s Copernicus Sentinel satellites, which regularly observe the same areas using both optical imagery and radar, and paired images taken before …

Subjects: AI, Climate Change, Environmental Law, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

How to Spot AI Hallucinations Like a Reference Librarian

Card Catalog – Hana Lee Goldin: “The verification tricks that would make fact-checkers weep with joy. Last Tuesday, a client sent me their “thoroughly researched” white paper on workplace automation. It had 47 citations. Looked bulletproof. Every claim backed by a study, every statistic sourced to a journal. I was impressed for exactly three minutes. …

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

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 20, 2025

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 20, 2025 – 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 increasingly complex and …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy