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Pew Research: Many Americans often encounter news they think is inaccurate, and those who do are more likely to find it difficult to determine what’s true and what’s not. Nine-in-ten U.S. adults say they at least sometimes come across news they think is inaccurate, including 42% who say this happens extremely often or often. Just …
Do LLMs Truly “Understand” When a Precedent Is Overruled?. Li Zhang, [email protected]. The full dataset can be accessed at https://github.com/lizhang-AIandLaw/Do-LLMs-Truly-Understand-When-a-Precedent-Is-Overruled. Jaromir Savelka and Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University. “Large language models (LLMs) with extended context windows show promise for complex legal reasoning tasks, yet their ability to understand long legal documents remains …
404 Media – No Paywall: “You don’t got no ID?” a Border Patrol agent in a baseball cap, sunglasses, and neck gaiter asks a kid on a bike. The officer and three others had just stopped the two young men on their bikes during the day in what a video documenting the incident says is Chicago. …
Legalverse Media – Sarah Glassmeyer: The Human Advantage: Professional Growth for Lawyers in the Age of Generative AI
API – “Trusting News has partnered with The Lenfest Institute’s Knight Communities Network and Project C to put together a Creator Journalism Trust and Credibility Toolkit. It includes an ethics checklist to help assess whether creator journalists and influencers “are working to be fair and accurate,” writes Mollie Muchna. Link: Access the toolkit (Lenfest Institute) …
ZDNET: “AI browsers promise to change how we search, shop, and work online. So, I’ve been trying them – and found 5 so far that really deliver…. BrowserOS is an open-source agentic browser capable of turning your words into actions. Describe a task in plain language, and BrowserOS will handle the rest for you. BrowserOS …
EFF: Viewpoint-based Online Surveillance of Permanent Residents and Visa Holders Violates First Amendment, Lawsuit Argues. The United Automobile Workers (UAW), Communications Workers of America (CWA), and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a lawsuit today against the Departments of State and Homeland Security for their viewpoint-based surveillance and suppression of protected expression online. The complaint …
Gizmodo: “The nation’s largest employers are doing a lot less employing lately. In recent weeks, Amazon announced it would cut 14,000 jobs, Paramount axed 1,000 people, Target let go of 1,800 employees, UPS said it will start a purge of 14,000 people with the aim of getting rid of 48,000 workers in total, and Meta …
The Hill: “The troops are to be trained in how to “form Squad-sized Riot Control Formation,” how to “employ a Riot Baton as a Member of a Riot Control Formation,” and how to “Supervise a Riot/Crowd Control Operation,” as well as de-escalation of force techniques, according to the memo…” A link to the memo is …
Reuters: “Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was “profoundly embarrassed” after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI. Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, an 1,800-lawyer firm that had been representing a creditor …
YouTube – Data brokerage is a billion-dollar industry built on selling your personal information without your knowledge or consent. In this video, we uncover the shady world of data brokers with investigative reporter Yael Grauer (Consumer Reports) to find out how they operate and what you can do about it. Timestamps as follows for specific …
Fast Company – no paywall: “…Harvey, which is used by some 250 law firms—including 42% of The American Lawyer’s list of biggest 100 firms in the U.S.—announced in June that it raised a $300 million series D led by Sequoia, bringing its total haul to more than $800 million and driving its valuation to $5 …
