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Engadget: “Google Earth seems to be the area where the massive company remembers that tech can be cool and downright fun. In 2024, it added an option for seeing historical recreations of select times and places. This is the sort of clever curio we love, and Google delivered even more the following year. Once you …
Open Laws Foundation: Most legal-data projects scrape statutes and dump them into a convenient format. That throws away the structure: cross-references, temporal validity, the relationships between acts. And that structure is the part that actually makes legislation useful to machines. We do the opposite. Read the spec GitHub ↗︎ Stable identifier olf:it/legge/2019/123/art_3 A profile of …
The New York Times Gift Article – In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself. For more than two decades, Farid, 60, had been the world’s leading expert in the field of digital forensics, but in the last six months he’d stopped trusting his …
Tech Policy: “At its I/O conference in May, Google announced what it called the biggest overhaul of Search in more than 25 years. Since 2024, Google Search has moved through several phases: from legacy search, which used some personal data to rank results; to AI Overviews, AI-synthesized summaries displayed above traditional results; and now to …
Calishat: “Let me tell you about a search tool of mine I just upgraded using Diffbot’s new Web API. It’s an upgraded version of Super Edu Search that I’m calling Super Edu Search Powered by Diffbot. I bet you have added site:edu to a Google search at some point. It’s an easy way to instantly …
“The Work AI Institute is Glean’s research center, backed by leading experts in AI and the future of work. We help leaders redesign how their organizations operate in the AI era. By combining cutting-edge research with real-world practice, we move beyond hype to deliver practical insights and tools leaders can put to work today. The …
The New Republic: “This week, more than 100 former federal prosecutors in Illinois sounded the alarm about the current leaders of the office where they all once served. “Regrettably,” their statement reads, “there is little doubt that actions taken by leadership in the last year have tarnished the reputation of the United States Attorney’s Office …
Pew Research: Nine groups show the conflicting values underlying today’s polarized politics. American politics is deeply divided along partisan lines – and for many Americans, the choice between the two parties feels stark, even existential. But beneath that familiar red-blue partisan divide is a much more nuanced picture: Many Americans hold a complex mix of …
Byte-Pulse: “Anthropic has rolled out Claude Fable 5, positioning it as their most potent AI model yet. They claim that Fable excels in areas like cybersecurity and scientific research, making it a versatile tool for businesses and researchers alike. However, early user feedback paints a different picture, particularly highlighting the model’s struggles with fundamental biology …
Platformer: “Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder on why she’s leaving her job to create solution for AI’s “messy middle.” Molly Kinder has spent the past three years at the Brookings Institution leading a multiyear project on how generative AI is transforming work. In a recent widely discussed essay, she predicted the coming of what she …
“Welcome to Season 8: The News. This 8-part series will explore the deep challenges facing American journalism, and the nation’s news and information crisis. It seems everyone’s mad at the media, but we’ll ask, what’s really wrong with the news? Is it what we think it is? What would a more independent and democratic media look like? By …
Today, the U.S. General Services Administration released the Elimination, Optimization and Automation (EOA) Handbook, a practical guide for federal leaders seeking to improve operational efficiency, strengthen mission delivery, and reduce administrative burden through process improvement and emerging technologies. The handbook compiles lessons learned and best practices from implementation efforts launched during the first Trump Administration. …
