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Washington Post – no paywall: “A knowledge architect. An orchestration engineer. A conversation designer. A human AI collaboration leader. If you’ve never heard of these job titles, it’s because they have just debuted at companies aiming to fuel their businesses with artificial intelligence. From the nation’s largest employer, Walmart, to tech companies Salesforce and Workday, …
Axios: “Police and sheriff’s departments across America are using AI-powered drones for pursuits, investigations and emergencies — even delivering Narcan to stop overdose deaths. Local law enforcement agencies are facing chronic staffing shortages amid pressures to reduce violent crime. AI-powered drones can do some police work — but using them raises new questions about surveillance and …
Nieman Lab – YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance: “Last month, The Atlantic dropped the latest investigation in its ongoing series on generative AI training data sets. Staff writer Alex Reisner found that at least 15 million YouTube videos …
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 …
CJR: “Researchers routinely rely on websites like data.census.gov, but this month, the top of the site displays a banner that reads: “Due to the lapse of federal funding, this website is not being updated.” Dozens of reports—from critical spending data to disease surveillance—are not updated or completely dark due to the ongoing government shutdown. Earlier …
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Tara Calishain – “With the government shutdown, I’ve been seeing a lot of different members of Congress on TV. Some of them I’d never seen before. It made me uncomfortable to listen to their statements and not have any context of who they were and their past political activities. So I made a tool called …
Above the Law: “Will we actually have Midterm elections next year? That was the question posed to three veteran conservative election law experts last week and they unanimously agreed that there would be elections… and that they probably would not be free and fair. These aren’t crazies who thought 2020 was fixed by Venezuelan Jewish …
404 Media: This story was reported with support from the MuckRock foundation. “One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is winding down operations by the end of the year, a huge disruption to public libraries across the country, some of which are warning their communities the shut down will limit their ability …
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 …