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The New York Review: A Constitutional Redline. “It is unprecedented for the federal government to proceed with a challenged action while in a court hearing on whether they can lawfully do so. It is a subversion of the rule of law.” March 22, 2025. David Cole, interviewed by Daniel Drake – This week the NYR Online …
The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Democratic Staff, is surveying the impact of the Trump Administration’s mass firings of federal employees from science agencies. If you were terminated from your position since January 20, 2025, please fill out this brief survey. While anonymous submissions will be helpful to the Committee’s efforts, we encourage you …
Multistate: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legislation. “Lawmakers are increasingly addressing AI through legislation. As AI technologies have burst on the scene, state lawmakers have responded by addressing concerns with this ubiquitous technology through public policy. In 2023, we saw less than 200 bills introduced across state legislatures addressing the issue of AI. But that shifted in …
Society of Authors: “Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI programmes. Yesterday (20 March 2025), The Atlantic published a searchable database of over 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. This data set, called Library Genesis or ‘LibGen’ for short, is full of pirated material, and all of it has …
Does the Government Decide What Your Law Firm Will Do? Jordan Furlong states that “If anyone’s going to speak up, it should be law firms. If anyone’s going to take a stand, it should be law firms.” This position resonates as more than 20 major law firms have been directed by Trump’s EEOC to provide …
It began with an Executive Action, Paul Weiss blackball order, and a Paul Weiss Fact Sheet targeting Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP (Paul Weiss). “On March 14, 2025, the President of the United States issued an Executive Order titled “Addressing Risks from Paul Weiss.” Exec. Order No. __, 90 Fed. Reg. __ (Mar. …
The Atlantic – no paywall: “…Meta and OpenAI have both argued in court that it’s “fair use” to train their generative-AI models on copyrighted work without a license, because LLMs “transform” the original material into new work. The defense raises thorny questions and is likely a long way from resolution. But the use of LibGen …
“WIRED [ublocked] talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite. Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent the first six weeks of the new Trump administration turning the federal government upside down. It has moved from agency to agency, accessing sensitive data and payment …
Privacy Guide: “There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn’t be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day. Lately, the US has been unilaterally cutting off access to critical technologies to European countries, prompting calls for “radical action” to bolster European tech stacks from EU lawmakers. At Privacy …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, March 18, 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 …
ProPublica: “On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance. Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office. …
“At Free Law Project, we believe in transparency and sharing our innovations. Today we’re excited to announce our latest development in semantic search: our embedding generation tool and the underlying machine learning model that we will be using in our new semantic search engine. While semantic search might sound complex, we’ve focused on making it …
