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Note – “Chris Whipple, the author of this feature told Anderson Cooper that all of the interviews with Susie Wiles were on the record and tape-recorded. He compared the confluence of factors to a lightning strike. “She knew I was working on a book at the outset,” he said, and “when I told her that …
MIT Technology Review: Rolling out enterprise-grade AI means climbing two steep cliffs at once. First, understanding and implementing the tech itself. And second, creating the cultural conditions where employees can maximize its value. While the technical hurdles are significant, the human element can be even more consequential; fear and ambiguity can stall momentum of even …
WIRED: “You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. The study, “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak in Large Language Models (LLMs),” comes from Icaro Lab, a collaboration of researchers …
Data is Beautiful via Reddit: “After a year of research, debate, and help from many of you in your home regions, I’ve finished a national map of 78 U.S. food regions. Each area is based on distinct culinary traditions shaped by geography, culture, and history, from Gullah and Tex-Mex to Monroe BBQ and Crucian cuisine. …
Institute for Local Self Reliance: The Hidden Cost of Ceding Government Procurement to a Monopoly Gatekeeper – ILSR has conducted a sweeping investigation that reveals Amazon has quietly become a major force in how cities, counties, and school districts purchase basic supplies — and that its tightening grip is driving up costs, eroding competition, and …
Literary Hub – “As a librarian, I’ve often felt like a part-time therapist. People confide in librarians the way they do with bartenders; we form bonds with our regular customers, listen to their troubles and serve up more than just books. After I learned the word “bibliotherapist,” during library school 20 years ago, I became …
Gallup: “The percentage of U.S. employees who reported using AI at work at least a few times a year increased from 40% to 45% between the second and third quarters of 2025. Frequent use (a few times a week or more) grew from 19% to 23%, while daily use moved less, ticking up from 8% …
“The Associated Press today introduced AP Verify, a verification dashboard combining AI-powered features with established digital verification tools to transform the way newsrooms authenticate online photos, videos and other digital content. The unified web-based interface features: AI-driven capabilities such as geolocation, object and landmark detection, and transcription An AI chatbot assistant Generative AI text detection …
SciLight: “Reading is more than just entertainment. When you open a book and begin reading, your brain doesn’t simply process words—it transforms. Research using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revealed that reading activates multiple brain regions and creates lingering neural effects. A 2020 study found that increased gray matter in the left superior temporal …
Golann, Dwight, How to Build A Bot in Twelve Steps (December 05, 2025). Suffolk University Law School Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5871402 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5871402 “Bots” powered by artificial intelligence systems are enormously powerful and versatile. Trained bots can take on a wide variety of roles, speaking and acting as lawyers, clients, mediators and advisors, …
The Atlantic Gift Article – What an apocalyptic French novel about a migrant invasion reveals about the worldview of nationalist conservatives – “Not long ago, a book party like this would have been unthinkable: a Washington celebration of one of the most notorious French novels ever written. But on a frigid December night, some 50 …
Washington Post gift article – A growing number of educators are finding that oral exams allow them to test their students’ learning without the benefit of AI platforms such as ChatGPT: “…Across the country, a small but growing number of educators are experimenting with oral exams to circumvent the temptations presented by powerful artificial intelligence …
