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The Drey Dossier – “There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead. Mine found me on TrumpRx. If you have not been to TrumpRx, it is a federal drug pricing website that looks like Wix and a Pinterest board threw up on each other. There …
Ethan Mollick – One Useful Thing: “If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other: Many of the comments to these posts are also generated by AI. So are an increasing number of academic papers and New York Times …
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Publisher A.G. Sulzberger warns A.I. companies are violating settled law and urges news organizations to stand up for their rights to ensure a sustainable future for reporting.
FT.com [no paywall]: “Kirkland & Ellis has set aside $500mn to create its own AI platform, as the world’s highest-grossing law firm seeks to develop proprietary technology rather than rely only on tools available to its competitors. The US-based firm expects to spend more than $100mn this year and hundreds of millions more in the …
Gizmodo – Wait, this costs money?: “Just last month, the most important metric in Silicon Valley was tokens burned—the units of measurement for the computing power being used by AI models. CEOs were giving employees the Matthew McConaughey “those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up” speech from The Wolf of Wall Street. Now, …
Check Point – 2026 U.S. Election Threat Outlook: “The 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations, fundraising and media platforms, government services, campaign personnel, and the providers that support them. Current intelligence and reporting indicate that the most likely 2026 election-related …
Reuters: “What if you could get feedback from your firm’s best litigator at 2 a.m., without waking them up? Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease is trying to do just that. The 375-attorney Ohio firm has partnered with a Stanford Law School research lab to build “AI personas” of 19 of its partners, tools that can …
The Verge – “After the Wikimedia Foundation abruptly dissolved a beloved team of engineers, Wikipedia’s volunteers are angry — and discussing how they can push back. Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team …
Robert Glasser: “Are people using AI, or is the organization learning from it? What changed because we spent those tokens? And who moves discoveries from individuals to teams to organizational capabilities? Ethan Mollick has been writing about AI adoption in organizations for a while now. In Making AI Work: Leadership, Lab, and Crowd, he makes the …
New York Mag – Intelligencer [no paywall]: “Steven Rosenbaum started writing his book The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality in 2022, around when ChatGPT launched. Initially he didn’t use it at all, “But as the writing moved forward into 2023, 2024, it got better and I got better at using it,” he said. …
Digital Digging: “Google is rebuilding Search to answer instead of point. It still shows you the sources — it just decided, before you did, how few you’d need. Here’s the fix, and why the old operators matter more now than they ever did. On May 19 Google announced the biggest change to its search box …
