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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 …
State-by-state guide: what happens when SNAP benefits stop Nov. 1 – NPR: “The federal government shutdown continues without an end in sight. In just a few days, tens of millions of people are at risk of losing federal food and nutrition benefits as a result. This includes the nearly 42 million people who rely 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, …
CJR: “Researchers routinely rely on websites like data.census.gov, but this month, the top of the site displays a banner that reads: “Due to the lapse of federal funding, this website is not being updated.” Dozens of reports—from critical spending data to disease surveillance—are not updated or completely dark due to the ongoing government shutdown. Earlier …
404 Media: This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. “One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability …
Gizmodo: “The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount axed 1,000 people, Target let go of 1,800 employees, UPS said it will start a purge of 14,000 people with the aim of getting rid of 48,000 workers in total, and Meta …
AI Incident Database – Search over 3000 reports of AI Harms. Why “AI Incidents”? Intelligent systems are currently prone to unforeseen and often dangerous failures when they are deployed to the real world. Much like the transportation sector before it (e.g., FAA and FARS) and more recently computer systems, intelligent systems require a repository of …
The Roosevelt Institute Report, October 28, 2025 – “We know the tragic effects of President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the federal government. But the truth is, Trump and Elon Musk alone didn’t break our governing institutions. Even prior to the current administration’s actions, both parties presided over decades of disinvestment in federal government capacity, too …
Via LLRX – Keeping up with 2025 executive orders and related litigation – As of October 1, 2025, Donald Trump has signed a total of 210 executive orders during his current administration. Attorneys in many areas of practice need to know how to keep up with the latest EOs, as these orders may impact the funding, …
Daily Dot: “A lot of fuss has been made in the business world recently about the new $3 billion global headquarters the financial institution built in New York City. The 60-story skyscraper will be the new workplace for 10,000 employees. Publications fawning over it largely stress that it was designed with an eye to sustainability …
“Life Hacker: “A lot of companies rely on cloud-based computing, but Amazon isn’t the only provider. For many of us, Monday was a workday defined by the AWS outage. Amazon Web Services experienced intermittent issues, throwing a huge fraction of the internet into chaos, as the sites and services built on it faltered or stopped …
ProPublica and via YouTube: “Russell Vought is the architect of Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies, and he’s a big reason the second Trump administration has been more effective at accomplishing its goals than the first. In the video shared by Trump, Vought appeared as the scythe-wielding …
