Accurate, Focused Research on Law, Technology and Knowledge Discovery With Daily Postings Since 2002
Perplexity – Frontier AI systems are closing the gap between model intelligence and real-world utility. New models, compute architectures, and orchestration patterns are enabling these systems to accomplish tasks deemed impossible just a few months ago. This rapid innovation has proved a boon to AI users by magnifying their leverage and agency. Yet it has …
Follow up to CIA ends publication of its popular World Factbook reference tool – Manuel Longo: “When the CIA World Factbook faded as a free, machine-readable source, a swath of public-interest country data was effectively orphaned. Bamwor rebuilds it as open data: 261 countries and 5.2M cities, in four languages, as CSV/JSON with a permanent …
The Chronical of Higher Education- no paywall: “The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse…Every generation of professors has complained that their students cannot read. The lament is usually overblown, but data have caught up to anecdote, and what I am seeing in my classroom is no longer a hunch. …
Lee, E.H., Yin, Y., Jia, N. et al. Relying on AI at work reduces self-efficacy, ownership, and meaning while active collaboration mitigates the effects. Sci Rep 16, 13583 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-42312-6 “Artificial intelligence (AI) promises major productivity gains, but it also raises fundamental questions about how technology can reshape people’s relationship to their work. Historical debates …
Wondertools: “Google’s Pinpoint is now open to everyone. It’s a surprisingly powerful free tool for making sense of giant piles of digital stuff. (Before June 3, it was restricted to journalists and academics). Read on to learn more about creative ways to use Pinpoint; its new AI features and their limitations; and how Pinpoint differs …
Henry Farrell and Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, AI as Social Technology, 26-5 Knight First Amend. Inst. (May 11, 2026), https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-social-technology [https://perma.cc/25BX-GUQL]. “…Authors of speculative non-fiction about AGI are less inhibited, offering sweeping visions of how information technology will completely transform society, economy, politics, or all three. They treat AGI less as a technology than as Andreessen …
Via LLRX Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors – Damien Charlotin tracks the claims made by some LegalTech vendors in the past and today with respect to how they handle hallucinations from their offerings. Charlotin is relying on internet-based written marketing material, trying to highlight the changes in how these products are and …
Email Markup Consortium: “This report serves as a technical audit of the senders, platforms and email clients that define the modern inbox. The results below are from analysis of over 376,000 emails across senders and geographies, looking at how each email scored on a detailed accessibility scorecard. This year’s report also looks beyond the sender, …
LLRX https://www.llrx.com Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – Sabrina I. Pacifici Tracking hallucination marketing claims from legal tech vendors. Damien Charlotin Deep Coverage – Right now the dominant AI strategy in law is using AI to replace or augment human labor on work …
Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health and the Rule of Law – Part 9 – This article is the ninth in a series by Sabrina I. Pacifici focused on the Trump administration’s unrelenting policy of attacking science, healthcare, public health, and the rule of law. The cornerstone of this series are topical highlights …
Gizmodo: “A joint public warning issued by “Five Eyes,” an alliance between the intelligence agencies of five anglophone countries including the U.K. and U.S., says China-linked spies are using job boards to pry classified information or other secrets out of its targets. The report claims China’s military intelligence operation is finding people in places like …
Indicator: “”Seventy percent of the “face swapping” apps available in Apple’s and Google’s app stores allowed the generation of nonconsensual deepfake nudes, according to a working paper by researchers at Cornell and Georgetown. The apps market themselves as playful AI editing tools that can edit a photo to replace someone’s face with that of another …
