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NBC News: “Roughly 2,000 U.S. diplomats have been laid off or forced to retire, taking with them decades of institutional knowledge, crisis response experience and highly specialized language skills…” See also At the Breaking Point – The State of the U.S. Foreign Service in 2025 – A Report by the American Foreign Service Association
The New York Times Gift Article: “President Trump’s upheaval of the federal government has led to an exodus of more than 10,000 lawyers since the beginning of 2025, a striking loss of legal talent that has left some agencies pushing to find attorneys to carry out his agenda. Roughly one in five lawyers who worked …
FT.com [no paywall]: “Kirkland & Ellis has set aside $500mn to create its own AI platform, as the world’s highest-grossing law firm seeks to develop proprietary technology rather than rely only on tools available to its competitors. The US-based firm expects to spend more than $100mn this year and hundreds of millions more in the …
Democracy Docket: “The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday [May 29, 2026] that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. The proposed rule, which will be formally published next week, is an alarming …
Gizmodo – Wait, this costs money?: “Just last month, the most important metric in Silicon Valley was tokens burned—the units of measurement for the computing power being used by AI models. CEOs were giving employees the Matthew McConaughey “those are rookie numbers, you gotta pump those numbers up” speech from The Wolf of Wall Street. Now, …
Check Point – 2026 U.S. Election Threat Outlook: “The 2026 U.S. midterm election cycle is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations, fundraising and media platforms, government services, campaign personnel, and the providers that support them. Current intelligence and reporting indicate that the most likely 2026 election-related …
Lawyer Oyer – Trump is looting our country. He just gave us (more) proof. “This week [May 17, 2026], Trump filed a government ethics disclosure known as Form 278-T. It’s a roadmap to the corruption and conflicts of interest that have pervaded his presidency. Call me old fashioned, but it continues to surprise me that …
Above the Law: “The Law Students for Climate Accountability puts together an annual report ranking the Vault 100 on how much fossil fuel work they do. In the era of on-campus interviewing, the Spring presented an excellent opportunity to do some research before selling your services to a law firm defending the rights of companies …
Reuters: “What if you could get feedback from your firm’s best litigator at 2 a.m., without waking them up? Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease is trying to do just that. The 375-attorney Ohio firm has partnered with a Stanford Law School research lab to build “AI personas” of 19 of its partners, tools that can …
The Verge – “After the Wikimedia Foundation abruptly dissolved a beloved team of engineers, Wikipedia’s volunteers are angry — and discussing how they can push back. Wikipedia is one of the last bastions of trust on the internet. But last week, volunteer editors and contributors were alarmed to hear that a small but important team …
Indicator: ‘YouTube announced it will make its AI labels more visible on content that is “photorealistic and meaningfully AI altered or generated.” [Work in Progress so be alert] Instead of burying labels in the description, the platform will now display them directly below or overlaid on the video (depending on the format). YouTube will also …
Washington Post [no paywall]: “Pollution from generators at data centers could cause respiratory symptoms and deaths in the region, an analysis for The Washington Post found….Data centers — warehouses stuffed with powerful computers — are spreading across the United States to support tech industry visions of a gleaming future powered by artificial intelligence. Most come …
