Category «Internet»

American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show

404 Media: “Soon after ChatGPT was released, I [Jason Keobler] filed 60 public records requests with states and school districts around the country to get a sense of how they were thinking about the technology. Because of the way public records work, it often took years to get anything back. I got busy, and there …

Subjects: AI, Education, Freedom of Information, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

The US Library of Congress is under attack

FT.com no paywall – An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught – “An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught. The Library of Congress is a reference-only research library, its collections being built through legal deposit legislation, passed by Congress. A History …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Copyright, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

At This $10 Billion Hedge Fund, Using AI Just Became Mandatory

Walleye Capital’s Will England is training his 400 employees to win with LLMs TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper goes in depth with Will England, the CEO and CIO of Walleye Capital, one of Every’s consulting clients. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify …

Subjects: AI, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President

First Branch Forecast: “Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President The presidential firing of Dr. Hayden raises serious questions about legislative independence. On Thursday, President Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Dr. Hayden became the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016. In that role, she oversaw the Library of Congress, a major legislative support agency. …

Subjects: Censorship, Congress, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

ChatGPT may be polite, but it’s not cooperating with you

The Guardian: “After publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. “Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book ‘Searches,’” one of them read. “To tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to ChatGPT,” said another. “Vauhini …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet? Part II

“Who Broke the Internet? Part II (permalink) “Understood: Who Broke the Internet?” is my new podcast for CBC about the enshittogenic policy decisions that gave rise to enshittification. Episode two just dropped: “ctrl-ctrl-ctrl“: The thesis of the show is straightforward: the internet wasn’t killed by ideological failings like “greed,” nor by economic concepts like “network …

Subjects: AI, E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Transportation

2025 Cost of Insider Risks

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the findings of the 2025 Cost of Insider Risks Global Report sponsored by DTEX Systems. This is the sixth benchmark study conducted to understand the financial consequences that result from insider risks. Expanding on the 2023 edition, this latest report examines how organizations are funding their insider risk management …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

From image generation to writing, ranking the best and worst of AI

Vox – no paywall: “Staying on top of AI developments is a full-time job. I would know, because it’s my full-time job. I subscribe to Anthropic’s Pro mode for access to their latest model, Claude 3.7, in “extended thinking” mode; I have a complementary subscription to OpenAI’s Enterprise mode so that I can test out …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management

Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future

Preserving Government Information. Past, Present, and Future by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. The book examines how preservation practices of the past affect the preservation of digitally published government information today, analyzes publishing and preservation data to characterize the current gaps in preservation, and looks to the future by charting a path to …

Subjects: E-Government, Education, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Recommended Books