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NewsGuard: “Belief in False Claims Averaged 46 Percent in 2025. Over the first seven months of Reality Gap Index reports — from June to December 2025 — NewsGuard found that an average of nearly half of Americans believed at least one false claim about major claims spreading in the news. For the first six months …
The Verge: “Google’s Gemini, AI Mode, and AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Microsoft are starting to cite Musk’s Wikipedia knockoff…ChatGPT is using Grokipedia as a source, and it’s not the only AI tool to do so. Citations to Elon Musk’s AI-generated encyclopedia are starting to appear in answers from Google’s AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, …
Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 31, 2026 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …
Ars Technica: “At this point, we’ve all heard plenty of stories about AI chatbots leading users to harmful actions, harmful beliefs, or simply incorrect information. Despite the prevalence of these stories, though, it’s hard to know just how often users are being manipulated. Are these tales of AI harms anecdotal outliers or signs of a …
“Archivist Browser. Your Portal to Digital History. The Internet Archive is one of the most important cultural libraries in human history. I built Archivist Browser to give this vast collection the native, modern, and beautiful mobile interface it deserves.” MD/. @monodivision.bsky.social. I just launched Archivist Browser: A dedicated mobile browser for Archive.org. Ad free, no …
Authors Alliance – “Since 2022 we’ve seen 75 AI copyright lawsuits filed. The Bartz v. Anthropic settlement has been among the most high profile, and it has made many authors wonder if there are similar settlements on the horizon for the suits based on copying of books. This post surveys the current AI book lawsuits, …
Washington Post [no paywall] – I tested four new versions. The promise is real, but major issues still need to be addressed – The browser wars are back — and this time they’re supercharged by artificial intelligence. In the second half of 2025, a crop of new AI-powered web browsers bloomed across the tech landscape, …
Washington Post [no paywall] – Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. “Within about a year, according to the filings, the company had spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and slice the spines off millions of …
Fast Company: “TikTok’s U.S. operations are now managed by a new American joint venture, ending a long-standing debate over whether the app would be permanently banned in the United States. The good news for TikTok users is that this deal guarantees that the app will continue to operate within America’s borders. But there’s some bad …
“I built Search Bench as a small experiment to compare search engines without showing which engine produced which results. It was inspired by the idea behind the LLM Arena, but applied to search. How it works: 1. You enter a query. 2. You see two result sets side-by-side (search engine names hidden). 3. You pick …
Lifehacker: “Tech companies are getting increasingly pushy with their large language models—prominent buttons for these AI features coat every surface designers can think of, including in three of the most prominent browsers: Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. If you want these AI features to go away, and stay away, there’s a script for that. JustTheBrowser is …
ASKVG: “This article will help you in getting rid of all AI (Artificial Intelligence) features and services available in Mozilla Firefox to make it an AI-free web browser. Mozilla team has started adding many AI-powered features to Firefox browser recently such as AI chatbots, link previews, smart tab groups, etc. Firefox utilizes ML (Machine Learning) …
