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Washington Post and no paywall: “They are part of an AI moon shot, driven by an escalating U.S.-China war over dominance in the field. The projects are starting to transform landscapes and communities, sparking debates about what our energy systems and environment can sustain. The price includes increasing power costs for everyone and worrying surges …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, December 15, 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 …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 13, 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 …
Golann, Dwight, How to Build A Bot in Twelve Steps (December 05, 2025). Suffolk University Law School Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5871402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5871402 “Bots” powered by artificial intelligence systems are enormously powerful and versatile. Trained bots can take on a wide variety of roles, speaking and acting as lawyers, clients, mediators and advisors, …
The First Branch Protocol: “The Government Publishing Office grabbed the spotlight at the final Congressional Data Task Force meeting of 2025 last Wednesday by announcing that it is launching a Model Context Protocol server for artificial intelligence tools to access official GPO publication information. The MCP server lets AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini pull …
CNBC: “President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday issuing a single regulation framework for artificial intelligence, undermining the power of individual states. To win, United States AI companies must be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation,” the order says. “But excessive State regulation thwarts this imperative.” The Trump administration, with the aid of AI …
Washington Post gift article – A growing number of educators are finding that oral exams allow them to test their students’ learning without the benefit of AI platforms such as ChatGPT: “…Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence …
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to improve productivity significantly, but there are many questions about how AI could affect jobs and workers. Recent technical innovations have driven the rapid development of generative AI …
Forbes via MSN – AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview. More companies are returning to face-to-face meetings to counter cheating by candidates—and more ominous digital threats. A Japanese video game company has started using pen-and-paper art tests in job interviews to avoid generative AI fraud. A graphic designer at the (unnamed) …
Todayville: “When Google flipped a digital switch in October 2025, few users noticed anything unusual. Gmail loaded as usual, Chat messages zipped across screens, and Meet calls continued without interruption. Yet, according to a new class action lawsuit, something significant had changed beneath the surface. We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here. Plaintiffs …
Scientific American: “Never heard of the Journal of International Relief or the International Humanitarian Digital Repository? That’s because they don’t exist. But that’s not stopping some of the world’s most popular artificial intelligence models from sending users looking for records such as these, according to a new International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) statement. …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Do yourself a favor and download iFixit’s new app. The free app from iFixit, a repair and advocacy organization, has one extremely handy feature for any smartphone model: It shows a personalized “death date” of when you should replace your phone’s battery, long before it fails on you. Think of it …
