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Avraham, Ronen and Sharan, Roded and Kricheli Katz, Tamar and Nasser, Rami, Lifting the American Supreme Court Veil: Identifying Authorship in Unsigned Opinions (March 27, 2025). U of Texas Law, Legal Studies Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5207281 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5207281 The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issues 10-15 % of its opinions unsigned, …
SparkToro: “… Folks who claim AI will destroy the labor market have claimed this radical change is “only a few years away,” “on the immediate horizon,” or “imminent,” for the last 5 years, yet we’re at historically low unemployment (yes, even accounting for underemployment and the way the BLS counts employment). The US labor market …
The Economist no paywall: “The Economist consulted bibliophile data scientists to bring you the answer. precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short,” wrote Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher of the 19th century. People are living longer than they did in Schopenhauer’s day, but the number of books has …
Washington Post no paywall – Employees are increasingly expected to up their productivity by incorporating artificial intelligence into their day-to-day tasks…From Duolingo to Meta to e-commerce firm Shopify and cloud storage company Box [and Law 360], more companies are mandating their executives and teams implement AI-first strategies in areas such as risk assessment, hiring and …
Jacob Harris, DOGE Track: “We are now several months into the second Trump presidency. It’s been hard keeping track of all that is being damaged and lost within the federal government. Emboldened by Musk and the absence of oversight, the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) has been rampaging through agencies to subvert their security, …
tubefilter: “So 200 scientists are sharing their research on YouTube. YouTube has always been a place where humans teach each other, and under an administration where basic provable science is being questioned, it’s becoming a vehicle for climate and weather scientists to reach the masses. More than 200 of these pros are currently hosting a …
Higher Ground Labs: “Each year, we track developments across the political technology space, providing a window into how our ecosystem is evolving—and what it means for Democratic campaigns and progressive infrastructure. This year’s report focuses on the turbulent 2024 election cycle and the hard lessons it left in its wake. The 2024 election presented enormous …
LLRX May 2025 Issue – Articles and Columns The fallacy of the calculator – Jordan Furlong Safeguarding the Docket: A Roadmap for AI Agent Integration into Patent Docketing Workflows – This paper by John Schulte outlines the potential benefits of using AI agents in docketing workflows and proposes an implementation roadmap, including three key safeguards for …
follow up to previous post – The US Library of Congress is under attack, see also Washington Post no paywall: “The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research library of the …
Wonder Tools: “The AI search landscape is transforming at breakneck speed. New “Deep Research” tools from ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity autonomously search and gather information from dozens — even hundreds — of sites, then analyze and synthesize it to produce comprehensive reports. While a human might take days or weeks to produce these 30-page citation-backed …
Artificial Lawyer: “A survey by Skills of which legal AI tools law firms are actually using provides multiple insights into where we are today. For example, Kira – which is part of Litera – remains by far the most popular tool for due diligence review. But, it’s followed by Harvey’s Vault feature – a relatively …
Global Investigative Journalism Network: “Large corporations often quietly pay individual fines for environmental, financial, or labor abuses without reporters noticing, or have patterns of misconduct that can be hard to quantify or easily missed. Sometimes, smaller companies will pay regulatory penalties without journalists realizing that they are subsidiaries controlled by influential parent companies or billionaires. …
