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Reuters: “TikTok’s U.S. operations would be controlled by an investor consortium including Oracle, Silver Lake and Andreessen Horowitz, under a framework the U.S. and China are finalizing, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. A new company will be created to operate TikTok, with U.S. investors holding a roughly …
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404 Media: no paywall: “The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there …
Fernandez, Ben, Legal Writing I & II: Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice, 172 pages. (2d ed.) (August 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5387465 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5387465 Legal Writing I & II; Legal Research and Writing & Introduction to Litigation Practice contains a brief discussion of all of the topics covered in law …
Follow up to Large Language Muddle It’s OK to be a Luddite! – See Also Neomam Studios: Why Our Small Business Chooses Human Intelligence Over AI: “…The rampant use of generative AI tools to automate our jobs has driven prices down to the ground and is flooding the web with subpar content that nobody cares enough to …
N+1: “…For those of us working in reading- and writing-heavy fields — chiefly media and academia, the US’s last two eroded islands of institutional intellectual life — the boom in sophistication of large language models over the past few years has struck alarm bells that were already chiming. Well before the inflection point of OpenAI’s 2022 debut of ChatGPT, …
404 Media no paywall: “A data broker owned by major U.S. airlines is selling masses of customers’ travel data to the government. New documents we just got show this includes “5 billion ticketing records for searching capabilities.” Where people went, how they paid, and even where they plan to go in the future are all …
The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems – Ziming Luo, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Nihar B. Shah. September 10, 2025. “AI scientist systems, capable of autonomously executing the full research workflow from hypothesis generation and experimentation to paper writing, hold significant potential for accelerating scientific discovery. However, the internal workflow …
Quanta Magazine: “…For centuries, humans have sought to understand the intricate workings of our planet. As vulnerable critters, we crave some control over nature, or at least a handle on coming shifts in the weather and climate. But Earth is a chaotic beast, sensitive to innumerable tiny details; we can’t possibly keep track of every …
NYTco.com, Speaking to the Investigative Reporters and Editors organization, The New York Times Publisher and Chairman AG Sulzberger called for journalists to stand up for their rights: “…Democracy is in retreat across the world. Aspiring strongmen are undermining the laws, norms, and institutions that are the bedrock of free societies. A primary target of this …
How People Use ChatGPT. Aaron Chatterji, Tom Cunningham, David Deming, Zo¨e Hitzig1, Christopher Ong, Carl Shan, Kevin Wadman. OpenAI. Duke University. Harvard University. September 15, 2025. “Despite the rapid adoption of LLM chatbots, little is known about how they are used. We document the growth of ChatGPT’s consumer product from its launch in November 2022 …
MakeUseOf: “Even if you’ve been using an iPhone for years, it’s surprisingly easy to miss some of its coolest features. And honestly, I don’t blame you—many of them are tucked away deep within the Accessibility and General menus, far from the settings you use every day. Some are small tweaks that make life a little …
