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Announcing the launch of our Semantic Search API in CourtListener – a major leap forward in how you search legal data. We’ve been working diligently to bring semantic search to our case law database for quite some time. Back in March, we shared a status update with extensive details on the machine learning techniques and …
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Proton VPN: “Discord is a wildly popular text, voice, and video chat platform used by over 153 million people each month. But is it safe? This is a question that may particularly concern parents(new window), thanks to it being the social media platform of choice for gamers, a demographic that tends to skew younger, and …
Spyglass: “A funny thing happened on the way to AI web browsers taking over the world: they’re now getting blocked left and right from doing the things that would make them useful. This is, to say the least, a problem. I first noticed it when OpenAI rolled out their ‘ChatGPT Atlas’ browser a couple weeks …
The Atlantic (Gift Article): The Nonprofit Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work. “The web archive Common Crawl has been quietly funneling paywalled articles to AI companies—and lying to publishers about it.” “The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more than a decade, the nonprofit has been scraping billions of webpages …
Cato Institute – “One of the striking features of the present administration is the regularity with which its leaders, from President Donald Trump on down, confidently describe the state of the law in ways entirely contrary to what had been seen as settled, on topics that range from flag burning to Congress’s TikTok ban to …
404 Media – “arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science review articles and position papers. Why? A tide of AI slop has flooded the computer science category with low-effort papers that are “little more than annotated bibliographies, with …
The interactive online tool provides localized data on respiratory virus activity across the country. BUSINESS WIRE – Walgreens has launched the 2025-2026 Respiratory Index, an interactive online tool that tracks flu and COVID-19 activity nationwide using prescription, testing and over the counter (OTC) product purchase data from Walgreens locations nationwide. This unique tool builds on …
ZDNET – Opt-out of AI: “Google somewhat buries a Gemini toggle in settings. If you know where to look, you can find it and turn off Gemini in Gmail, Google Docs, Google Photos, and every other Google product you know and love. Here’s how…”
Columbia Jopurnalism Review: “Last week, OpenAI released Atlas, which joins a growing wave of AI browsers, including Perplexity’s Comet and Microsoft’s Copilot mode in Edge, that aim to transform how people interact with the Web. These AI browsers differ from Chrome or Safari in that they have “agentic capabilities,” or tools designed to execute complex, …
Indicator: “Grokipedia launched on Monday as a self-styled alternative to Wikipedia. While some pages are simply an AI-generated regurgitation of the very Wikipedia it’s supposed to replace, other entries reflect the biases of its main owner, Elon Musk. The entrepreneur’s page, for instance, “describes him in rapturous terms while downplaying, or even omitting, several of …
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