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The Guardian “A document on an embryo adoption program may be marginal – but it marks an escalation in the pursuit of fetal personhood. The Trump administration quietly declared frozen embryos to be children last week. In a call for grant applications related to a nearly 20-year-old program meant to raise awareness about frozen embryo …
“Every month since 2011, Hacker News runs an “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” thread where each top-level comment is one job posting. Chart how often a language, tool or work-style shows up across those postings – a live read on what the tech job market actually asks for. Chart how often a language, tool or …
Persuadability and LLMs as Legal Decision Tools. Oisin Suttle. School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University, Maynooth Ireland. David Lillis School of Computer Science University College Dublin Dublin Ireland (2026). As Large Language Models (LLMs) are proposed as legal decision assistants, and even first-instance decision-makers, across a range of judicial and administrative contexts, it becomes essential …
Actions Against the Empire of AI: “AI takes many forms. Like the word “transportation”, it refers to a collection of technologies as diverse and distinctive as bicycles to rockets. But today, one version of AI takes all the oxygen: large-scale, generative systems that power products like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. These systems consume an unfathomable …
Brennan Center: News Deserts Leave Voters Vulnerable to Election Misinformation. “In recent years, the local journalism ecosystem has shrunk dramatically amid the closure and consolidation of small local news outlets and the reduction in local coverage by larger outlets that remain. The absence of locally specific news has rendered many communities news deserts — areas …
Via LLRX – Before Judgment: AI and the Developmental Gap in Legal – Miranda De La Torre, AI and Legal Technology Fellow at ASU’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, discusses the complex challenges of new lawyers now learning powerful systems on the job, often without clear institutional guidance, shared professional norms, or confidence in their …
MakeuseOf: “On June 9, 2026, Anthropic released Fable 5 to much fanfare. It was the first publicly available version of its Mythos-class model, the most capable AI model the company had ever shipped to the general public, and within hours, it was sitting at the top of just about every major benchmark. It beat both …
News on any topic. Trusted sources only. Journalist-built AI with 12,000 vetted sources and real-time fact-checks. NewsGuard today launches NewsGuard AI, the first chatbot designed to provide trustworthy responses by only accessing reliable sources. With NewsGuard AI, you can: Get fast, reliable answers based on reporting from journalists around the world, with prominent links to …
AI Vision by GPTZero [free & fee] – At the current rate, AI-generated content will dominate every major platform within a decade. AI Vision scans the text on your feed as you browse and highlights what’s AI-generated. GPTZero scans millions of posts daily — identifies the ones that went viral and our model caught as …
SciLight: “At a time when public access to reliable climate information can feel increasingly uncertain, more than 80 scientists have stepped forward to help protect it. That is one of the most important details behind today’s launch of the full Climate.us website: the new independent, nonprofit climate information platform has already built a volunteer network …
Washington Monthly – “One more reason rebuilding local news is vital. Academic research suggests that whether it’s an obituary, a puff piece, or news of a sale on tuna at the grocery, local news makes us feel less alone. “When thinking about the harms caused by the collapse of local news, our minds might first …
Are You In the Weights [Yes I am, and so is this blog, and my ejournal LLRX. Cannot say that I am pleased.] Find out if you live on in GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 Mini, Opus 4.8, Haiku 4.5, Grok 4.20, Gemini 3.1 Lite, Kimi K2 0905, DeepSeek V4, Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 3.2 1B, GLM 4.7 …
