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Today, we are launching the AI Status Copyright Cases Tracker. It depicts all 118 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States by the stage of litigation: pre-discovery, discovery, summary judgment, interlocutory and direct appeals, and Supreme Court. It also depicts how the same AI companies are commonly facing multiple lawsuits filed by different …
Federal Agency Workforce Changes: Update for July 2025 to January 2026. GAO-26-108583 Published: Jun 17, 2026. Publicly Released: Jun 17, 2026. Full Report Executive orders in 2025 aimed to reduce the federal workforce and restrict hiring in many areas. This is our second report on these workforce changes. The number of federal employees declined across …
Via LLRX – Create An AI Policy Before Your Firm Falls Further Behind – The majority of law firm employees are using AI with virtually no guidance or guardrails. How does your law firm compare? Do you have an AI policy in place, and have you educated your staff about appropriate AI usage? Nicole L. Black explains …
250 one-minute documentaries about America – A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica
Truthout – “Su Casa Liberation Library is part of a flourishing anarchist library scene that includes the Tamarack Library in Oakland, California; Legacy Library on Chicago’s South Side; and the mobile Free Society People’s Library (FSPL) in Portland, Oregon. These autonomous libraries build on the values of the traditional public library — connecting people to …
minid.net – Diego Lafuente’s personal blog: “Every generation of computing believes the interface it loves will last forever. It never does. I saw information move from floppy disks to BBSs, from BBSs to the Web, from the Web to Flash, from Flash back to open standards, from websites to mobile apps, and now from search …
Slashdot/TechCrunch: “TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not …
PCMag – Chatbots are not your friend, no matter what they say. Here’s how to get the information you need while also limiting the data ChatGPT collects from your conversations: “AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train …
This post is a walkthrough of how LLMs work. Modern LLMs are mostly built by stacking transformer blocks over and over, so understanding the transformer machinery gets you most of the way there. I’ll cover the core mechanisms inside modern transformer-based LLMs, without all that sticky math stuff. Don’t get me wrong, you should learn …
Facebook AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection – “Introducing Hive VLM — our multimodal LLM that checks images or text against your custom policy and returns flexible, human-readable results. Hive’s AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection APIs determine whether content is authentic or AI-created. Our APIs scan images, video, and audio for AI and return clear confidence …
Gizmodo: “If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, an app is about to be auto-loaded onto your work phone, sort of like that U2 album that auto-loaded on everyone’s iPhone in 2014, except instead of delivering “Songs of Innocence,” the app claims to deliver “unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source”—the source being …
“azmth shows more than 15,400 active satellites orbiting Earth on an interactive 3D globe, live. Orbital data comes from CelesTrak and refreshes every 2 hours; positions are propagated in your browser with the SGP4/SDP4 model. Click any satellite for its altitude, orbit, operator country, and real dimensions, and set your location to see exactly when …
