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The “Are You Sure?” Problem: Why Your AI Keeps Changing Its Mind Try this experiment. “Open ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini and ask a complex question. Something with real nuance, like whether you should take a new job offer or stay where you are, or whether it’s worth refinancing your mortgage right now. You’ll get a …
“GeoConfirmed is a volunteer-driven open-source intelligence (OSINT) project dedicated to geolocating and verifying visual content—such as videos and photographs—from around the world. Our mission is to bring clarity and accuracy to events by confirming exactly where something happened, using publicly available information. While much of our recent work has focused on conflict zones, our methods …
Via LLRX – Agentic AI in the Wild: Lessons from Moltbook and OpenClaw – Tools like OpenClaw – the open-source AI agent that underpins Moltbook – are only possible because of the rapidly developing, and publicly available, capabilities of frontier large language models such as Anthropic’s Claude. Ardi Janjeva, Carolyn Ashurst and Rick Hennessy of the …
W. A. Lawrence – “Marc Andreessen’s firm bankrolled Substack and donated $39 million to Trump’s orbit. Its former executives now serve in his administration. If you publish political journalism here, you should know whose roof you’re under. That is the sentence every political writer on Substack needs to sit with, because almost none of them …
The New York Times: “After nearly 90 years, the Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval ratings, which served as a steady way to measure Americans’ views of their elected leaders. The polling firm, which has been tracking presidential approval since Franklin D. Roosevelt, said that the decision was based on a shift in …
Medill: “In local news deserts in the U.S., residents rely heavily on social media and other non-journalistic sources to stay informed, according to a comprehensive survey by the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University. The survey revealed that among people who consume news daily in news deserts, a little more than half (51%) said …
The Times: “The Ministry of Justice (UK) is ordering the deletion of a large archive of court records, raising open justice concerns. Courtsdesk, a data analysis company that supports media and campaigners in monitoring court records, has been ordered by the government to delete its archive, which provides a crucial tool for journalists covering the …
Understanding AI – “How much are lawyers using AI? Official reports vary widely: a Thomson Reuters report found that only 28% of law firms are actively using AI, while Clio’s Legal Trends 2025 reported that 79% of legal professionals use AI in their firms. To learn more, I spoke with 10 lawyers, ranging from junior …
The Harvard Business Review – “…Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI. After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and debugging code—and allowing workers more time for high-value tasks is tantalizing. But are they ready for what might …
ProPublica: “The “Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence” — updated for the first time in 15 years — eliminates some 90 pages about climate science and comes just as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts. The move by the Federal Judicial Center leaves judges without any official support on how to …
NeimanLab: “In our recent rankings of web traffic at the top local newspapers and public media outlets, there’s been a consistent trend: Wherever ICE unleashes its controversial deportation tactics, the audience’s attention follows. Operation Midway Blitz sent readers to Chicago’s WBEZ, Operation Charlotte’s Web did the same for Charlotte’s WFAE, and the chaos in Minneapolis …
“Image Whisperer AI Image Detector – beta v9.94 – Media Verification & Research tool, detects AI, by Henk van EssTotal fakes are easy to spot. Hybrid fakes slip through. Most AI detectors work like calculators — they output a number. They need to work like detectives — really look at the evidence. Developed by Henk van Ess with Claude …
