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404 Media – Now They Want to Give Cops Access: “BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to …
Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies (May 2026). “WHY I BUILT THIS Many industry experts and companies claim AI profitability by 2030 is possible, so I wanted to see how close we really are. This site tracks cumulative spend versus revenue across most major AI companies in one place, allowing you to …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 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 increasingly complex and …
An Automatic Personalized End-to-End Legal Summarization System. Xu, Huihui. University of Pittsburgh ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2026. 32672122. Personalized legal summarization for individuals’ interests allows legal professionals and the general public to understand the complex legal reasoning. The lengthy legal case opinions can be hard for readers to peruse and find information of interest. Summarizing legal opinions …
Shah, Anand and Levy, Joshua, Access to Justice in the Age of AI: Evidence from U.S. Federal Courts (March 20, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6766859 – This paper studies how generative AI has reshaped entry into the federal civil court system. Drawing on administrative records covering more than 4.5 million non-prisoner federal civil court cases from …
Financial Review: “MinterEllison has become the first major Australian law firm to admit out loud a growing fear across the world: artificial intelligence-led automation may hurt lawyer numbers, and graduates will be hit first. Minters has cut its graduate cohort for 2025-26 by almost a third from the previous year, to 72, partly because artificial …
NOTICE News: “Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical Monday — an 83-page document titled Magnifica Humanitas (Magnificent Humanity) — and it reads less like a church document and more like a progressive policy agenda for the digital age. The pope called on governments to regulate AI, warned that companies invoking ethics “in the abstract” …
Wendy Liu – The Guardian – As intelligence itself becomes privatised by big tech, allowing your intellectual faculties to wither in service of inane bots seems a dangerous move. Long before the age of multi-billion-dollar AI companies promising to disrupt the field of software development, I was learning to code the hard way. It was …
Brockovich Data Center Report – Key Concerns with AI Data Centers Energy Consumption – High energy usage contributes to significant environmental impact and escalating costs for surrounding communities. Water Usage – Cooling systems often require substantial water resources, straining local water supplies and ecosystems. E-Waste – Frequent hardware upgrades and replacements generate significant volumes of electronic …
Follow up to Google Search as you know it is over [please please stop using Google – I will beg no more…] – See also Tara Calishain – “As you might imagine I’m not thrilled with Google’s decision to go full-in on AI. Even if Google’s AI consistently worked well enough to ensure minimal misinformation …
Vox – no paywall: “….AI models learn by identifying patterns within enormous bodies of text. This widely-understood fact has an underappreciated consequence: LLMs don’t necessarily give the same answers in every language — certain phrases or arguments may appear more regularly in Japanese training data than in the English kind. This is not inherently a …
The Atlantic Gift article – “To some, they’re no longer a sign of laziness but proof of human touch…More than two decades later, as AI-generated writing has flooded workplaces, social media, and dating apps, old hallmarks of sloppiness—typos chief among them—are getting a new gloss. Some job applicants are intentionally adding typos to their cover …
