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There are 7 new articles and 6 new columns in the April 2026 issue of LLRX. YIKES! The Bluebook’s Generative AI Is Flawed – Book Review by Prof. Jessica R. Gunder Book Review – How To AI: Cut Through The Hype. Master The Basics. Transform Your Work – In the current publishing cycle, books about AI are …
The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Secret to Success Is Monotasking. “Here’s the frightening part: We gravitate to a customary level of interruption. If you are disrupted by notifications all day, every day, then even if those external triggers magically disappear, you will unconsciously start interrupting yourself to maintain the rhythm of distraction you’re used to. …
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 – 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 …
The Evolving News Landscape: Comparing media habits and trust between teens and adults is the latest study from the Media Insight Project, a collaboration of The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, the American Press Institute, Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the Local News Network at the University …
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% …
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 …
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 …
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 …
