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Via LLRX – AI Under the Hood – Knowing the difference between a general AI tool and one trained on specific sources can mean the difference between getting an accurate answer and becoming quickly frustrated with outcomes that either don’t answer the question thoroughly or answer the question in a confused mixture of fact and fiction. While …
Ars Technica: “The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works. A series of recent studies has shown that large language models from OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, and xAI memorize far more of their …
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Growth Memo: “I analyzed 1.2 million search results to find out exactly how AI reads. The verdict? It’s a busy editor, not a patient student… There isn’t much known about which parts of a text LLMs cite. We analyzed 18,012 citations and found a “ski ramp” distribution. 44.2% of all citations come from the first …
Acme Weather: “Our homegrown forecasts are produced using many different data sources, including numerical weather prediction models, satellite data, ground station observations, and radar data. Most of the time, our forecast will be a reliable source of information (it’s better than the one we had at Dark Sky). But, crucially, we supplement the main forecast …
“WalkmanLand pays tribute to the pocket tape devices of yesterdays: the Walkmans [still have and use mine a well as Discman – what else can one do with 300 CDs but listen to them]. These analog machines are considered one of the devices that have most influenced the behaviour of people in modern societies. We …
ARMY CYBER INSTITUTE TECHNICAL REPORT – Tracking The Trackers: Commercial Surveillance Occurring on U.S. Army Networks – May 4, 2025. “Despite current security implementations, Internet activity on DoD networks is susceptible to web trackers and commercial data collection, which have the potential to expose information about service members and unit operations. This report documents the …
It’s not just chatbots anymore – Ethan Mollick: “I have written eight of these guides since ChatGPT came out, but this version represents a very large break with the past, because what it means to “use AI” has changed dramatically. Until a few months ago, for the vast majority of people, “using AI” meant talking …
AI-Powered Epstein Files Research Database – Search the complete DOJ production: ~1.4 million documents, ~2.8 million pages across 12 datasets — including transcribed audio & video, spreadsheets, and photographs, fully indexed. See also Epsteinalysis.com See also EPSTEIN Files Explorer – Full-Text Search. Search across 300,271 documents by content, names, dates, or Bates numbers See also …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 21, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
MakeUseOf: “For a long time, I didn’t think twice about pasting a contract into ChatGPT, uploading a confidential report to ask for a summary, or feeding a client proposal into a cloud AI tool. Then one day I actually stopped and read a terms of service document (something I’d been lazily skimming for years) and …
Institute for Local Self Reliance: “Here’s why teachers should break up with Amazon’s wish lists — and where to find better alternatives. Teachers routinely spend their own money on school supplies. With public school district budgets being slashed nationwide, over 90 percent of public K-12 teachers now pay for classroom supplies out of their own pockets, …
