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Reality Check Podcast: ChatGPT and Gemini Fail to Stop their AI Voice Tools From Spreading False Claims & an iPhone 18 Hoax – Podcast – This week’s episode covers NewsGuard’s audit of leading AI audio bots, which found that ChatGPT and Gemini advance false claims on topics in the news about 50 percent of the time, …
The New Yorker – How the Administration is overwhelming federal courts and getting away with third-country removals. [no paywall]: “In March of 2025, the Trump Administration was widely criticized for sending more than two hundred Venezuelans to CECOT, a notoriously brutal mega-prison in El Salvador. Yet, over the past eleven months, the Administration has continued …
World Monitor. Real-time global intelligence dashboard – AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface. Note there is a panel at the upper right hand corner of the dashboard that pushes advertising content.
Library of Congress, In Custodia Legis: “In the previous release, we enhanced access to the Senate legislation actions overview display and added the ability to download the text of legislation in XML format. With this release, member profile pages for current members of the Senate now include a “committees” tab that lists the member’s committee assignments …
ZDNET: “The vast majority of agentic AI systems disclose nothing about what safety testing, if any, has been conducted, and many systems have no documented way to shut down a rogue bot, a study by MIT and collaborators found…The 39-page report, “The 2025 AI Index: Documenting Sociotechnical Features of Deployed Agentic AI Systems,” which can …
Follow up to Epsteinalysis.com via The New Republic: “The Department of Justice spoke four separate times to a woman who credibly accused Donald Trump of having sex with a minor he met through Jeffrey Epstein—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents on the alleged sex trafficker. A …
Bloomberg – no paywall “Republicans have been trying to dissolve the Department of Education since it was created. Under Trump, they’re closer than ever to getting it done.In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, he made a blunt promise about the US Department of Education: “We’re going to shut it down as quickly …
Gauthier, G., Hodler, R., Widmer, P. et al. The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 – The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects. Here we present results from …
AI Risk tool – Privacy infrastructure for the agentic AI era. Anonymise sensitive data before it reaches any AI model. Feels private. Chat interfaces feel anonymous, but they’re not Easy to miss. Sensitive details hide in plain sight: names, dates, amounts buried in longer text Productivity pressure. The focus is on getting things done We …
Under the moniker – Axiomofinfinity – for which there is no further information that I could locate – a individual or group has posted a remarkable searchable database, Epstein Files Explorer, of over one million documents and over two million pages that comprise the Epstein Files released by the DOJ. Applications used – Programmatic applications …
Follow up to White House Webpage Pushing Save Our Elections Act – Via the Brennan Center – New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting – Update: When this article was first published, the SAVE America Act included a provision that would have also required voters to show documents such as …
Most people get around 11 out of 20. “In a research paper published in the British Journal of Psychology, researchers from UNSW and the ANU recruited 125 participants – including 36 people with exceptional face-recognition ability, known as super recognisers, and 89 control participants – to complete an online test in which they were shown …
