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Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator & UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law and Economic Justice – “…But today, as seen with McDonald’s, loyalty programs have evolved into data-harvesting machines that lawmakers should scrutinize as closely as any other surveillance-based business model. They track not just what consumers buy, but who we are, what we search for, and …
PCMag: “AI-generated images aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact, they continue to look increasingly realistic thanks to the likes of Gemini’s advanced Nano Banana Pro image model, among others. You might not be able to immediately tell what’s fake in every instance, but it’s still worth checking for a few telltale signs. Below are …
NBC News: “Artificial intelligence chatbots are very good at changing peoples’ political opinions, according to a study published Thursday, and are particularly persuasive when they use inaccurate information. The researchers used a crowd-sourcing website to find nearly 77,000 people to participate in the study and paid them to interact with various AI chatbots, including some …
How to Geek: “Are you using a VPN and wondering why your internet connection feels slower than it used to? I wondered the same thing, so I set out to measure just how much a VPN affected my internet speed at home. The results somewhat surprised me, though it made sense once I thought through …
Civil Eats: “December 4, 2025 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on Monday that it has deployed a version of artificial intelligence called “agentic AI” for “all agency employees” to assist with complex tasks, including safety reviews, inspections, and compliance. While the release did not specifically mention food safety, the agency is responsible …
AP – “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. troops at risk by sharing sensitive plans about an upcoming military strike in Yemen on his personal phone, according to a Pentagon inspector general’s report made public Thursday that criticized the use of unapproved messaging apps and devices across the Defense Department. Hegseth had the authority to …
WSJ – via MSN w no paywall [Note – we have heard this mantra for decades….is change arriving in 2026?]: “Rita Gunther McGrath is an academic director in executive education at Columbia Business School and author of “Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen.” Is the billable hour about to …
Introducing Proton Sheets: Protect the data that drives your business “Proton Sheets is rolling out gradually, so if you don’t see it in your Drive account yet, it will appear soon. Spreadsheets are the backbone of modern businesses, used to plan budgets, manage inventory, supervise members, and organize proprietary data. This is why Excel and …
“To better understand the U.S. media landscape, Pew Research Center has surveyed Americans over time about their news habits and attitudes. Time and time again, the youngest adults stand out from the crowd in their unique ways of consuming news and their views of the news media. This essay examines how the youngest group of …
LLRX November 2025 Articles and Columns The Trump Administration’s Continued War Against Science, Research, Public Health, and the Rule of Law – Part 5 – The fifth in a series of articles by Sabrina I. Pacifici documenting what government resources, data and datasets been taken offline, censored or otherwise altered to block access and significantly …
The Atlantic – Colleges Are Preparing to Self-Lobotomize – “The skills that students will need in an age of automation are precisely those that are eroded by inserting AI into the educational process. After three years of doing essentially nothing to address the rise of generative AI, colleges are now scrambling to do too much. …
Center for Economic Policy Research: The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment, 2nd Edition 315 pages. See John Coates [Harvard Law School] chapter, The Rule of Law, begins on page 33 and includes an addendum on rule of law developments from April to September, starting at page 46. …At the President’s direction, …
