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The Cook Political Report: “After every major presidential and midterm election, the Democratic data firm Catalist releases a comprehensive analysis of the composition and partisan leanings of the electorate. What distinguishes their analysis from election night exit polling is that it integrates data like vote history, Census data and Catalist’s own polling and modeling, which …
Via LinkedIn – Carolyn Elefant – “I just compared my current LEXIS subscription to ChatGPT Deep Research and was blown away. My takeaways: ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Comprehensive, well-organized memo. ❌ LEXIS – A big, over-inclusive data dump ❎ ChatGPTDeepResearch – Identified key SCOTUS precedent in first sentence. ❌ LEXIS – Missed precedent entirely. ✅ ChatGPTDeepResearch …
Via Data is Plural: “Peter Adelson and Julian Nyarko’s Material Contracts Corpus contains “over one million contracts filed by public companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) between 2000 and 2023,” which the authors collected from the SEC’s EDGAR filings database. In addition to the text of the contracts, the dataset provides metadata …
WSJ no paywall: “Google is overhauling its iconic search engine to compete more directly with a wave of artificial-intelligence chatbots that threaten its core business. The company has started rolling out on its search page what it calls “AI Mode,” which answers search queries in a chatbot-style conversation without the standard list of blue links. …
Via Jason Kottke – The Unbreaking team is starting to publish “clear and rigorously cited explanations of what’s happening to our government and why it matters”. Their first three are on Medicaid, Transgender Healthcare, and Equality at Work.
GAO – Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government (commonly known as the “Green Book”), sets the standards for an effective internal control system for federal agencies and provides the overall framework for designing, implementing, and operating an effective internal control system. An entity uses the Green Book to help achieve its objectives related …
WSJ, Part One – Go Delete Yourself From the Internet. Seriously, Here’s How. Find your data, request removal…and repeat [no paywall] – “Google updated its “Results About You” tool, and using it has been an eye-opening experience. It uncovered my home address, phone number and email on so-called people-search websites, along with my birth date …
Via Ray Lament, LinkedIn [click graphic to enlarge] “On 13 May 2025 the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered OpenAI to preserve and segregate every chat record that would normally be deleted. The directive stands until the court decides otherwise. Surveys show plenty of practitioners have preferred the public version …
The Atlantic [no paywall] – Russell Vought is advancing a radical ideological project decades in the making. “The opening act of Donald Trump’s second term was defined by the theatrical dismantling of much of the federal government by Elon Musk and his group of tech-savvy demolitionists. Everywhere you looked in those first 100 days, it …
What You Need to Know [American Lawyer – no paywall] A group of ex-Big Law associates who quit over their firms’ handling of scrutiny from the Trump administration launched an email campaign targeting firm management committee members. In provided form letters, the group asked members of the public to request that nonprofits and law schools …
The New York Times – no paywall “A new wave of “reasoning” systems from companies like OpenAI is producing incorrect information more often. Even the companies don’t know why…Today’s A.I. bots are based on complex mathematical systems that learn their skills by analyzing enormous amounts of digital data. They do not — and cannot — …
CensorTrace – “Following the 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, changes were made to the content available on certain public government websites and platforms. This website is an automated tool designed to monitor the removal of webpages from major U.S. government websites. It uses publicly available data from the Internet Archive to compare sitemaps from before and …
