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Via LLRX – Claude Legal Is Here, and It’s Worth a Closer Look – With the recently launched Claude Legal plugin, Nicole L. Black recommends to lawyers and legal professionals Claude’s AI for tasks like document review and contract drafting. The Claude Legal plugin runs within Claude Cowork, a desktop app that you can download, and no …
Via LLRX – Hallucinations” by West & Lexis AI? – Michael Berman addresses benchmarks used for AI legal research platforms in the context of the risk of hallucinations in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) AI outputs. As Berman states, verification, of course, is not only good advice, but also an ethical mandate.
Daily Beast – no paywall: “A federal judge is holding up Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS and the Treasury Department until his lawyers can convince her it’s legal for a president to take his own federal agencies to court for money. Trump is the ultimate boss of the agencies he’s suing, so …
engadget: “You can now use LinkedIn to test out some of the latest AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and other companies without having to worry about token limits or paying for an extra subscription. The professional network is It’s called Crosscheck, and it’s rolling out now to anyone with a LinkedIn Premium subscription …
OpenAI: “Our state of the art model for masking personally identifiable information (PII) in text. Today we’re releasing OpenAI Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text. This release is part of our broader effort to support a more resilient software ecosystem by providing developers practical infrastructure for …
The New York Times: “The Trump administration is creating a new office that critics say could weaken the environmental oversight of oil drilling and seabed mining in territorial waters. The new agency, the Marine Minerals Administration, will be formed by reunifying two offices that had been split up after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill …
Department of Justice (DOJ) Deputy Inspector General Performing the Duties of Inspector General William M. Blier announced today that: The DOJ Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is initiating an audit of DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Our preliminary objective is to evaluate the DOJ’s processes for identifying, redacting, and releasing records …
BloombergLaw: “The Justice Department is curtailing election year coordination aimed at protecting state-run voting processes, increasing risks of the Trump administration interfering in the November midterms or unwittingly exposing precincts to threats, said multiple state officials and former DOJ election crime lawyers. Ahead of an election that will determine whether Republicans retain control of Congress, …
FBI investigating deaths and disappearances of staff at secretive government laboratories. Here’s what we know. “At least 10 scientists and researchers connected to U.S. nuclear and aerospace programs have died or gone missing since 2023, prompting concern in Congress and a House Oversight Committee investigation. Lawmakers, including James Comer, are seeking answers from federal agencies …
The Atlantic – Gift Article: “The best thing I watched in the past year was an epically long movie about retired militants, but it wasn’t One Battle After Another, the Oscar winner for Best Picture. It was The Sorrow and the Pity, a four-hour documentary from 1969 about life in Nazi-occupied France. Reviewing the film …
CounterSpin interview with Lia Holland on the Internet Archive. “Janine Jackson: A recent report by Wired‘s Kate Knibbs leads with the contradiction: USA Today published a story recently on how ICE is misinforming about its detainment policies, a case that the paper built on data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, a nonprofit digital library …
Wired: “The cyber capabilities of AI models have experts rattled. AI’s social skills may be just as dangerous.”
