Category «Internet»

Deep Research with AI: 9 Ways to Get Started

Wonder Tools – “The AI search landscape is transforming at breakneck speed. New “Deep Research” tools from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity autonomously search and gather information from dozens — even hundreds — of sites, then analyze and synthesize it to produce comprehensive reports. While a human might take days or weeks to produce these 30-page …

Subjects: AI, Education, Internet, Legal Research

A.I. Is Getting More Powerful, but Its Hallucinations Are Getting Worse

The New York Times – no paywall “A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why…Today’s A.I. bots are based on complex mathematical systems that learn their skills by analyzing enormous amounts of digital data. They do not — and cannot — …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines

CensorTrace

CensorTrace – “Following the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, changes were made to the content available on certain public government websites and platforms. This website is an automated tool designed to monitor the removal of webpages from major U.S. government websites. It uses publicly available data from the Internet Archive to compare sitemaps from before and …

Subjects: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Climate Change, E-Records, Education, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

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