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404 Media – “Arizona State University rolled out a platform called Atomic that creates AI-generated modules based on lectures taken from ASU faculty by cutting long videos down to very short clips then generating text and sections based on those clips. Faculty and scholars I spoke to whose lectures are included in Atomic are disturbed …
@article{levine2026talkie, title={Introducing talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930}, author={Levine, Nick and Duvenaud, David and Radford, Alec}, year={2026}, month={April}, url={https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie} } “Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past? What would you ask someone with no knowledge of the modern world? What would they ask you? While we don’t have time …
Via LLRX – I Tested Claude for Word on Some Classic Litigator Tasks – Over the past several days Rebecca Fordon has been digging into the Claude for Word add-in, and the headline finding surprised her. On document-intensive legal work — cite-checking, consistency review, Table of Authorities assembly — it seems to need less supervision than either …
404 Media: “Researchers working with data from the Internet Archive have discovered that a third of websites created since 2022 are AI-generated. The team of researchers—which includes people from Stanford, the Imperial College London, and the Internet Archive—published their findings online in a paper titled “The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet.” The research …
NeimanLab – “Satellite imagery has long helped investigative journalists gather intelligence on conflict zones and track changes in remote landscapes. Now, in a new wave of satellite-based investigations, reporters are leaning on machine learning models to automate parts of this work and scale up their analysis to an unprecedented degree. This innovation is most visible …
Via Yasir Ai: “Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and …
Crixus Blog – “Everyone assumes AI meeting tools replace note-taking. I record every call with Quill as my notetaker. It captures who said what, generates summaries, tags topics automatically. My meetings are fully indexed and searchable. And I take more handwritten notes than before I had any of this. Here is the thing people get …
Washington Post via MSN: ..”some teachers are now implementing “brain breaks” in their classrooms to cope with shorter attention spans, “including limiting screen time; cutting the time students spend on one activity; adding more engaging, hands-on projects; and practicing meditation.” Some teachers say the efforts are helping, at least a little… To engage students, teachers …
Frank Childer – Trip report from the AI for Legal Reasoning and Adjudication Conference, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, April 2, 2026 “…The Skill Gap Is Not About Prompting — It’s About Context and Oversight – The skills the legal profession needs for agentic AI are different from prompt engineering skills. They cluster around two …
The Straits Times: “From a few basic questions, the kind of day-to-day things you might ask a friend or family member, an AI chatbot can learn more about you than those who have known you for years. Emotional maturity, relationship status, financial constraints, professional ambition and even your health — none of which you were …
Reuters: “As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled, opens new tab this year that the …
The Conversation: “The U.S. government “is able to purchase Americans’ sensitive data because the information it buys is not subject to the same restrictions as information it collects directly. The federal government is also ramping up its abilities to directly collect data through partnerships with private tech companies. These surveillance tech partnerships are becoming entrenched, …
