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Vox – no paywall: “Staying on top of AI developments is a full-time job. I would know, because it’s my full-time job. I subscribe to Anthropic’s Pro mode for access to their latest model, Claude 3.7, in “extended thinking” mode; I have a complementary subscription to OpenAI’s Enterprise mode so that I can test out …
Science: “President Donald Trump today asked Congress to make massive and unprecedented cuts to the 2026 budgets of major federal science agencies. The request calls for cutting spending by 37% at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and more than 50% at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the country’s two major science funders. The White …
404 Media: “Late last night, House Republicans introduced new language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that will immiserate the lives of millions of Americans by cutting their access to Medicaid, and making life much more difficult for millions more by making them pay higher fees when they seek medical care. While a lot of attention …
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NCLS – Artificial Intelligence 2025 Legislation Updated March 22, 2025 – “AI—the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as learning and decision-making—has the potential to spur innovation and transform industry and government. As AI advances and widespread adoption of these tools increase, government, business and the public are …
In Custodia Legis: Thursday, May 22, 2:00 p.m. “How to Handle AI? – Italian National Regulation in the Context of European Law” – A Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar. Join senior legal research analyst Dante Figueroa and senior researcher at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Roberto D’Orazio for a Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar titled, …
Follow up to Trump fires Librarian of Congress – via CBS News: “The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday. The firing of Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter came after Perlmutter and her office earlier this week issued part three of …
Note – this post is dated May 2024 but the recommendation continues to work – Via Tedium: “Forget AI. Google just created a version of its search engine free of all the extra junk it has added over the past decade-plus. All you have to do is add “udm=14” to the search URL…Google announced some …
Android Headlines: “Every time you ask ChatGPT for an answer, another website fades into silence. In a landmark lawsuit, Ziff Davis takes on OpenAI—and the fight could decide who owns the soul of the internet…The convenience of AI makes it feel free, even magical. But it’s not. The models powering those instant responses were built …
IEEE Spectrum – “Researchers are pushing beyond chain-of-thought prompting to new cognitive techniques. Since OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI companies have been locked in a race to build increasingly gigantic models, causing companies to invest huge sums in building data centers. But toward the end of last year, there were rumblings that the …
Surden, Harry, Artificial Intelligence and Law – An Overview of Recent Technological Changes in Large Language Models and Law (February 12, 2025). 96 Colorado Law Review pp. 376 – 411 (2025), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 25-8, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5135305 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5135305 “This article, based upon a keynote address by …
Conklin, Michael and Houston, Christopher, Measuring the Rapidly Increasing Use of Artificial Intelligence in Legal Scholarship (March 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5190385 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5190385 “The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has had a profound impact on nearly every industry, including legal academia. As AI-driven tools like ChatGPT become more prevalent, they raise critical …
