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Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, April 30, 2026 – 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 …
The Guardian: “Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own. Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They’re trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 2, 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 …
The Atlantic Gift Article: “…And these days, we’re struggling. Gloria Mark is a psychologist at UC Irvine who studies what, exactly, workers in a knowledge economy do all day. Early in her career, she shadowed office workers with a stopwatch and logged all of their activity. Mark and her co-author found that the typical worker …
Via LLRX – YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Despite its unpopularity and the availability of other citation manuals, The Bluebook remains widely used at many law schools to teach legal citation format to law students, and it is relied on by law reviews and courts. The twenty-second edition of The Bluebook was …
“One of the greatest challenges for conservationists has been detecting environmental harms before it’s too late. Now Earth Index enables users to easily find and act on damaging activities, like illegal mining, in minutes not months… Processing satellite imagery and developing models requires expertise. Scanning imagery is tedious and slow. Earth Index streamlines the process …
EpochAI: “80% of US adults who report using Claude in the previous week live in households earning $100,000 or more a year, compared to 37% of Meta AI users. Nationally, about 50% of US adults fall in this income bracket. Among Meta AI users, 32% live in households earning less than $50,000, compared to 7% …
Wired – no paywall: “For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed …
Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
Licensed to Loot – Big Finance, Big Tech and the AI Infrastructure Grab: I. Introduction: A manufactured market. The global race to build AI data centres is a manufactured investment cycle. Consumer demand did not create it and no credible case for economy-wide benefit underpins it. It is built by concentrated financial capital in alliance …
Ky Decker: “Consider the following scenarios: You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss. A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. …
The New York Times Gift Article – “Apps that record visits are becoming popular, but they come with privacy and accuracy concerns. At your next appointment, your doctor may have a new kind of assistant listening in: artificial intelligence. Across the nation, A.I. programs are quietly recording these conversations and turning them into draft medical …
