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The Trump Family Passed $5 Billion. Narativ’s Grift Clock Now Counts Every Second. How much money the Trumps are making from their second term – “The Trump family crossed the $5 billion line on July 10 at 11:10 PM Eastern — by the clock’s math. Nobody marked the moment. So Narativ built the clock that …
Via LLRX – AI Transcription and Client Confidentiality: What Is Actually Safe to Use – New transcription tools are being introduced every day. Based on her own review, Jennifer Ellis highlights two setups she is comfortable recommending.
The US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today announced the launch of the Guide to Processing Personnel Actions (GPPA) Navigator, a new digital tool that modernizes how federal Human Resources (HR) professionals access and apply personnel action guidance. The GPPA Navigator transforms decades of document-based guidance into an intuitive, searchable digital experience, giving more than 40,000 …
Washington Post – no paywall: “…DOGE has evolved from its radical cost-cutting mission, with some of its members and agenda embedded across the government, continuing to reshape the federal bureaucracy behind the scenes. “DOGE is a way of life. … It never terminates,” former DOGE staffer Katie Miller said on X on July 4, the …
Popular Information: “From the outset of President Trump’s second term, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has engaged in a deadly immigration crackdown that has trampled the constitutional rights of migrants and US citizens. During the operation, there have been 28 incidents where immigration agents shot at people, resulting in eight deaths, according to an …
Machine Society – The accuracy of people using AI drops by one-third, but their certainty that they’re right more than doubles. New research published last week reveals the mechanism behind the workplace pandemic of people who are overconfident and underqualified. The mechanism is fluency-based substitution: The ready availability of a syntactically coherent, decisive AI answer is …
“The Alien Terrorist Removal Court has existed since 1996. The attorney general submits applications for removal to the court under seal. According to the Federal Judicial Center, it has never received an application since its founding. Until this week.. Seamus Hughes of Court Watch broke the news Saturday of its first use — and the …
Cato Institute: “Today, the Trump administration made public two new rules limiting legal immigration: one, a massive overhaul of the international student visa system; the other, a rewrite of the public charge ground of inadmissibility that will primarily hit relatives of US citizens—overwhelmingly their spouses and minor children. As I have detailed, Trump had already cut …
Inside Higher Education: “Brown University leaders’ response to the alleged cheating incident has been “meek,” the professor said. For the first time since he started teaching Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory nearly two decades ago, Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave his students a take-home midterm this spring. Quite a few students had …
Via LLRX – What Does It Mean to Be a Competent Lawyer in the Age of AI? – Berkeley Law recently announced a new artificial intelligence policy that prohibits AI use for any purpose in any exam situation. The University of Chicago Law School has banned first year law students from using electronic devices – laptops, tablets …
The New York Times Gift Article: “More than 60 percent of Google searches in the United States now end without the user clicking on a link. We type a question, read an artificial-intelligence-generated summary of the results and leave with our answer. Google is hardly alone. Claude, ChatGPT and upstart competitors like Perplexity do roughly …