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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 …
Via Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social – Map of local National Weather Service office “areas of responsibility” modified (using polygons with black outlines and red fill) to indicate where recent/expanding cuts to NOAA/NWS have resulting in understaffing so extreme that some offices can not longer operate on a 24/7 basis.
The New York Times – no paywall: Stephen I. Vladeck,professor of law at Georgetown and writes the One First weekly Supreme Court newsletter. It is often difficult to persuade anyone other than lawyers to care about the more technical, procedural minutiae of Supreme Court decisions. But Thursday’s oral argument in three Supreme Court cases challenging …
404 Media: “Soon after ChatGPT was released, I [Jason Keobler] filed 60 public records requests with states and school districts around the country to get a sense of how they were thinking about the technology. Because of the way public records work, it often took years to get anything back. I got busy, and there …
FT.com no paywall: “It was never meant to be $2tn. Elon Musk’s vow last year to cut almost a third of the annual federal budget, made in front of a frenzied Maga crowd during a Trump rally at New York’s Madison Square Garden, came as a surprise even to the event’s organisers. “The deal was …
The Verge no paywall: Ripping off content to train AI wasn’t going to fly with either MAGA populists or MAGA media. What initially appeared to be a power play by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to take over the US Copyright Office by having Donald Trump remove the officials in charge …
Bytseu – “A new report draws on decades of internal documents and court records to lay out how some of the world’s most powerful corporations misled the public about the dangers of climate change—and how their efforts to avoid responsibility for the harms caused by their products have evolved in recent years. The documents and …
FT.com no paywall – An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught – “An institution that survived British torching in 1814 is now facing a new onslaught. The Library of Congress is a reference-only research library, its collections being built through legal deposit legislation, passed by Congress. A History …
Walleye Capital’s Will England is training his 400 employees to win with LLMs TL;DR: Today we’re releasing a new episode of our podcast AI & I. Dan Shipper goes in depth with Will England, the CEO and CIO of Walleye Capital, one of Every’s consulting clients. Watch on X or YouTube, or listen on Spotify …
404 Media no paywall – “Flock, the automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company whose cameras are installed in more than 5,000 communities in the U.S., is building a product that will use people lookup tools, data brokers, and data breaches to “jump from LPR [license plate reader] to person,” allowing police to much more easily …
First Branch Forecast: “Congress’s Librarian, Fired by the President The presidential firing of Dr. Hayden raises serious questions about legislative independence. On Thursday, President Trump fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Dr. Hayden became the 14th Librarian of Congress in 2016. In that role, she oversaw the Library of Congress, a major legislative support agency. …
