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Wired – no paywall: “For its famous intractability, the Bloomberg Terminal has long inspired devotion, bordering on obsession. Among traders, the ability to chart a path through the software’s dizzying scrolls of numbers and text to isolate far-flung information is the mark of a seasoned professional. But as a greater mass of data is fed …
Taylor Lorenz – “I analyzed thousands of posts from the top newsletters to find out how much of Substack is AI. Some of the biggest “writers” on Substack aren’t writing at all. Lately it feels like I’m encountering more and more AI-generated content on Substack. This mirrors patterns across the broader web. Last fall, media …
Ky Decker: “Consider the following scenarios: You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss. A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. …
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 …
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 …
PerThirtySix – How geometry, stopwatches, and Einstein’s theories work together to make GPS possible. “If you’re like me, you might be entirely dependent on GPS to navigate the world. At some point, you may have caught yourself wondering during those panicked moments when an exit is coming up and your phone is recalibrating: how does …
