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USAFacts: “35% of American households are using AI to find information. 14% of people trust that information. New Census Bureau data shows that 57% of Americans have used AI tools to search, brainstorm, complete work or school tasks, and more. Forty-two percent of respondents reported a productivity boost, though the responses also show concern with …
Follow up to Data Centers Exposed – The New York Times – The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers [unlocked article]. “Yes, the cloud has a sound, and some who live closest to data centers that emit the noise have reached their wit’s end trying to block it out. …
Kottke: “For the first time in hundreds of years, two collections of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks have been brought together online at the Leonardotheka. In some cases, pages that were cut apart centuries ago have been digitally joined so we can see the full pages again, as Leonardo drew and wrote them. From the press …
WSJ no paywall [click the down arrow in the lower right hand corner of the page]: “A senior Trump administration official read out President Trump’s memorandum of understanding to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and wind down the war with Iran in exchange for financial incentives for Tehran that will begin immediately. Another official, speaking …
“Some of you saw a thing I built earlier this year called Epstein Exposed. It was an attempt to make the Epstein files actually searchable instead of 2 million scanned pages nobody could use….I went looking for the next pile of public records nobody had bothered to make searchable. I found it on a drive, …
Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint that WeLib hosts tens of millions …
Slashdot/TechCrunch: “TechCrunch’s Zack Whittaker argues that the U.S. government’s abrupt export-control order forcing Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models offline was “never about an AI jailbreak” threat. Instead, it was driven more by “personality differences” between the AI company and Trump administration. Security experts say the reported guardrail bypass did not …
PCMag – Chatbots are not your friend, no matter what they say. Here’s how to get the information you need while also limiting the data ChatGPT collects from your conversations: “AI chatbots feed off your data. In most cases, your data is used to personalize future responses, but some companies use the information to train …
This post is a walkthrough of how LLMs work. Modern LLMs are mostly built by stacking transformer blocks over and over, so understanding the transformer machinery gets you most of the way there. I’ll cover the core mechanisms inside modern transformer-based LLMs, without all that sticky math stuff. Don’t get me wrong, you should learn …
Facebook AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection – “Introducing Hive VLM — our multimodal LLM that checks images or text against your custom policy and returns flexible, human-readable results. Hive’s AI-Generated & Deepfake Content Detection APIs determine whether content is authentic or AI-created. Our APIs scan images, video, and audio for AI and return clear confidence …
George, Tracey E. and Yoon, Albert and Gulati, Mitu, Stacking the Deck (May 29, 2026). Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2026-33, Virginia Law and Economics Research Paper No. 2026-10, Vanderbilt Law Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6850719 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6850719 – A federal judicial clerkship is a government-funded Golden Ticket that opens …
Gizmodo: “If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, an app is about to be auto-loaded onto your work phone, sort of like that U2 album that auto-loaded on everyone’s iPhone in 2014, except instead of delivering “Songs of Innocence,” the app claims to deliver “unfiltered, real-time updates straight from the source”—the source being …