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Ethan Mollick: “Every few months I write an opinionated guide to how to use AI¹, but now I write it in a world where about 10% of humanity uses AI weekly. The vast majority of that use involves free AI tools, which is often fine… except when it isn’t. OpenAI recently released a breakdown of …
Vice: “About a year ago, AI began outpacing human writers on the internet. For every one article written by a real-life, blood-bag of a meat puppet, slightly more than one was written by a machine. Don’t get all twisted up about “slightly more than one” article; it’s fractions, my friends. The news was broken when …
TA-MajestyPalm via Redditt: “Graphic by me, created in Excel. Source data is from Ballotpedia and Wikipedia. We’ve all seen many election graphics but I wanted to highlight the fact that the largest group of potential voters was non voters. “Non Voters” only includes ELIGIBLE voters that didn’t vote: it does not include those under 18, …
Ars Technica: “The dust is still settling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after a mass layoff on Friday, which former employees at the beleaguered agency are describing as a massacre. In separate press briefings on Tuesday, a network of terminated CDC staff that goes by the name the National Public Health Coalition, …
TechSpot: “Comet browser by Perplexity is the AI browser that acts as a personal assistant. Automate tasks, research the web, organize your email, and more with Comet. Comet uses Perplexity’s search engine, optimized for fast and accurate answers. Perplexity search gives you the choice to navigate the web and check sources for original facts. Unlike …
AI in Finance an Banking October 15, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided are to …
Pivot to AI – It can’t be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong: “Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or they just don’t prove their …
Aeon: “…For many people, GenAI is becoming their primary way to learn about the world. A large-scale study published in September 2025, analysing how people have been using ChatGPT since its launch in November 2022, revealed that around half the queries were for practical guidance, or to seek information. These systems may appear neutral, but …
404 Media [no paywall]: “An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month. New York Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen …
Harvard – “In February, the Library Innovation Lab announced its archive of the federal data clearinghouse Data.gov. Today, we’re pleased to share Data.gov Archive Search, an interface for exploring this important collection of government datasets. Our work builds on recent advancements in lightweight, browser-based querying to enable discovery of more than 311,000 datasets comprising some …
Via Greg Siskind: What is Prompt.law? Prompt.law is an online platform where lawyers can find, create, and share AI-generated legal task prompts. Think of it as a “cookbook” of AI prompts designed specifically for legal professionals to streamline their work. Who can use Prompt.law? Prompt.law is designed for legal professionals, including attorneys, law firm staff, …
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, October 11, 2025 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and …
