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“Today we’re launching Perplexity Patents, the world’s first AI patent research agent that makes IP intelligence accessible to everyone. Patents are the artifacts of an age-old process: humans turning curiosity and ingenuity into practical innovation to benefit their fellow citizens. Curious people engage with the patent system as both consumers and contributors of knowledge. Through …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, October 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 …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 1, 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 …
Washington Post – no paywall: “A knowledge architect. An orchestration engineer. A conversation designer. A human AI collaboration leader. If you’ve never heard of these job titles, it’s because they have just debuted at companies aiming to fuel their businesses with artificial intelligence. From the nation’s largest employer, Walmart, to tech companies Salesforce and Workday, …
Axios: “Police and sheriff’s departments across America are using AI-powered drones for pursuits, investigations and emergencies — even delivering Narcan to stop overdose deaths. Local law enforcement agencies are facing chronic staffing shortages amid pressures to reduce violent crime. AI-powered drones can do some police work — but using them raises new questions about surveillance and …
Nieman Lab – YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance: “Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos …
Columbia Jopurnalism Review: “Last week, OpenAI released Atlas, which joins a growing wave of AI browsers, including Perplexity’s Comet and Microsoft’s Copilot mode in Edge, that aim to transform how people interact with the Web. These AI browsers differ from Chrome or Safari in that they have “agentic capabilities,” or tools designed to execute complex, …
Indicator: “Grokipedia launched on Monday as a self-styled alternative to Wikipedia. While some pages are simply an AI-generated regurgitation of the very Wikipedia it’s supposed to replace, other entries reflect the biases of its main owner, Elon Musk. The entrepreneur’s page, for instance, “describes him in rapturous terms while downplaying, or even omitting, several of …
404 Media – No Paywall: “You don’t got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike. The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during the day in what a video documenting the incident says is Chicago. …
Legalverse Media – Sarah Glassmeyer: The Human Advantage: Professional Growth for Lawyers in the Age of Generative AI
ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver…. BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS …
EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …
