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“Image Whisperer AI Image Detector – beta v9.94 – Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, by Henk van EssTotal fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like detectives — really look at the evidence. Developed by Henk van Ess with Claude …
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: “Twenty-five years after it was founded, Wikipedia stands as an unrivalled achievement. Not only is it the single largest collection of information in human history, it has also built a stellar reputation for reliability in a digital world awash with lies and deception. For this reason, new AI tools have …
Zimmer, Z. (2026). Outlier and collapse: The enron corpus and foundation model training data. Big Data & Society, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421474 (Original work published 2026) – “The Enron Corpus is a canonical training dataset representing one of the first scale jumps in the size of natural language data for machine learning (ML) research. That corpus was …
Vox – AI agents could change your life — if they don’t ruin it first. ChatGPT is boring compared to what comes next. The Atlantic [no paywall] – “The first signs of the apocalypse might look a little like Moltbook: a new social-media platform, launched last week, that is supposed to be populated exclusively by …
“WoAtlas.com is a free, interactive atlas providing key statistics and data for countries around the world. The goal is to create a modern, modular resource that anyone can use to explore and understand our world. Why This Project? Traditional atlases and geography resources can feel static and disconnected from how we learn today. WoAtlas aims …
Cato Institute: “Recent increases in immigration have rekindled concerns about their effects on government budgets. This paper updates a model of these effects first developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to shed light on how immigrants, both legal and illegal, and their children affect government budgets. This analysis is the …
“The Cambridge Online Trust & Safety Index (COTSI) tracks the dynamics of the fake SMS-verifications market across different platforms and countries. The Index aims to answer the following questions: How easy (and cheap) is it to engage in online manipulation? Is the situation with fake accounts improving or worsening over time? Which online platforms are …
PCMag: “The next time you’re standing in a checkout line, imagine the cashier asking, “Would you like me to keep your credit card on file for future purchases?” That would feel odd—maybe even unsettling. Yet online, we agree to the same thing all the time when a browser offers to save our card details or …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, January 31, 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 …
“Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month. This letter responds to a request that the Congressional Budget Office estimate the costs associated …
The New York Times: “When Republicans muscled President Trump’s signature domestic policy bill through Congress last year, they gave a windfall to the Department of Homeland Security — including for Immigration and Customs Enforcement — with effectively no strings attached. Republicans allocated a total of $190 billion over four years, including $75 billion for ICE …
Wired [no paywall]: “Google debuted a new “Auto Browse” feature for Chrome on Wednesday. The tool, powered by Google’s current Gemini 3 generative AI model, is an AI agent designed to take over your Chrome browser to help complete online tasks like booking flights, finding apartments, and filing expenses. The release of Auto Browse is …
